Have you ever worked with MarcEdit? I can't swear that it will do what you need, but we use the tool a lot to convert records back and forth between MARC and other formats.
http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php Terry Reese is a very responsive guy, and always seems glad to answer questions and add features. At 04:13 PM 3/21/2007, Perian Sully wrote: >Hi all: > >So the pressure is on to import a bunch of MARC records (in Word) into our >shiny new CMS (EMu). I need to convert the MARC Word document into some >format that I can then use to recode the MARC tags into EMu-speak. I've done >this with our old records using Excel, and would like to use Excel again to >work with the MARC records (yes, I recognize that this may mean that I'll >have potentially 1000 or so columns to deal with). And our archivist is >quite against Excel, and says that he can only get the MARC records in Word. >I don't know if this is true or not, but I'm pressuring the powers that be >to see if I can at least get the records in CSV or delimited text. However, >I'm working with the assumption that Word is what I've got to work with. > >Unfortunately, all of our MARC records are in Word, and I can't get Word to >break out the columns correctly (it wants to create a lot of rows instead of >columns). I did find this older program, which makes me hopeful that this >process won't be as complicated as I anticipate: MARC RTP >http://rossjohnson.homemail.com.au/MARCRTP/ > >But I'm wondering if anyone else here has had to deal with this problem and >what you did to solve it. Did you have a software package that helped you? > >Thanks in advance everyone! > >Perian Sully >Collection Database & Records Administrator >Judah L. Magnes Museum >2911 Russell St. >Berkeley, CA 94705 >510-549-6950 x 335 >http://www.magnes.org >Contributor, http://www.musematic.org > >_______________________________________________ >You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum >Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > >To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > >To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: >http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l ------------ Leslie Johnston Head, Digital Access Services University of Virginia Library http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/ http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/das/ johnston at virginia.edu
