MARC GLOBAL

So, you have found a coding error … in 500,000 records!!!

NO PROBLEM

Don't spend hours doing repetitive repairs.  MARC GLOBAL (MG) can fix it for you in a jiffy.

MG is a ‘find and replace’ tool for MARC records, designed for 32-bit Windows, featuring a self-guiding interface, and No Limits! That means there are no restrictions on what you can change, no limits on file sizes, record sizes, number of tags in a record, length of field, etc., and no limits on the number of changes (which we call ‘Reviews’) that you can save and re-use.

MG lets you decide and design the work that needs to be done, e.g.:

• a disk of records from your vendor has the holdings in the wrong field—use MG to change the field (and subfields, if necessary)
• you went to a TMQ MARC cataloging workshop and learned that there's been a change in the second indicator of the 1XX fields--use MG to change 1XX I2 from 0 to blank
• you also learned that you should put special coding in records that you make yourself; use MG to--
• change 008 Source from blank to 'd'
• add 003 with your institution code
• add 040$a$c with your institution code

Any change you create with MG can be saved for later re-use; Saved changes can be gathered together into groups.  Groups of changes (which we call ‘Autoreviews’) can then be applied all at once to a file, or, to any record you are editing in MARC Report!

MG works on a copy of your file, so if you don't like what you see, you can make a change and just try again.

You don't need to be a programmer, a vendor, or a magician to use this powerful MARC tool.  You just need to know your MARC.

Please click here for pricing information, or check the links on the left to read more about the features in MARC Global, and to see a short presentation on how easy it is to use MARC Global.