MARC Report is quality control software for MARC data. It is a librarian's best defense against common coding and cataloging errors in a MARC database.
Brought to you by The MARC of Quality, creators of MARC Review (©1993) and MARC Global (©1997), MARC Report (©1999) will give you the tools to accomplish a very tough job—applying quality control to MARC records—with amazing ease.
But that's not all; unique to MARC Report are thousands of cataloging cross-checks created by Deborah Fritz, the author of Cataloging with AACR2R and MARC21, and MARC21 for Everyone . These cross-checks, or Cat Checks as we call them, don't simply validate your MARC records, they go one huge step farther, and also check the internal cataloging logic of each record: according to AACR instructions, or RDA instructions; with hot-links to the MARC standards, OCLC standards and RDA instructions in the RDA Toolkit. And if these checks are not enough, you can easily add your own to the program.
Besides offering
the most comprehensive and customizable validation available, MARC Report also
includes: a MARC editor, a Text Editor, an XML record viewer, Batch mode
validation, and an unmatched collection of integrated MARC file utilities
(Verify, Split, Concatenate, MARC Analysis, Sort/Dedupe), converters (Import
Text, Export Text, MARC to XML, XML to MARC), plus MARC Review, and MARC Global (which requires a
separate license). All of these utilities will quickly process MARC and MARCXML
files of any size.
MARC Report is
updated at least twice a year to reflect updates to the official MARC standards
and changes in cataloging practice, and to improve its own error checking
capabilities.
MARC Report is
used by hundreds of catalogers in libraries and library companies around the
world to check and correct records that they create, copy, or receive from
other sources.
You can download
a 30-day free trial of MARC Report right now by going to the Download page (where there are no
annoying forms to fill out)
You can learn
more about the program on the Features page, or at the program's
wiki (if you like getting
into the details); or you can read a short justification for MARC Report
contributed by the cataloger at an average-sized public library.
MARC Report/MARC
Global are supported on any Windows 32-bit platform from Windows 2000 onward.
MARC Report/MARC
Global is updated frequently (2-3 times per year); you will need Administrative
privileges in Windows to do these updates.
Program
installation requires about 25 MB of disk space.
The amount of
disk space needed to run the program or the utilities is determined by the size
of the MARC files that you are using. In
general, you should have free disk space equivalent to twice the disk space of
the file that is being used.
MARC Report/MARC
Global is not supported as an application that is launched on a Windows Server.
MARC Report/MARC
Global is not compiled for Windows x64 platforms but will run on them.