A couple weeks ago, I had posted a question to IRC about reporting on
the 650 fields in a MARC record. At the time, I was having no success,
while the Evergreen report module was reminding me that I was a mere
mortal. Well, after a little more work and helpful hints from the
community I had success. I thought I’d post how I was able to run the
report, since there has been some other questions circulating about this
topic.
My original trials were using the source “Flattened MARC Fields.”
However, I was not getting any results. I later switched to the source
“Item,” and pulled in the flattened MARC fields and it worked.
Here is what I used in my report:
Filters:
Item :: Shelving Location - Location ID
Item :: Call Number/Volume - Owning Library
Item :: Call Number/Volume - Is Deleted
Item -> Call Number/Volume -> Bibliographic Record :: Flattened MARC
Fields - Tag
Item -> Call Number/Volume -> Bibliographic Record :: Flattened MARC
Fields - Subfield
Display:
Item -> Call Number/Volume -> Bibliographic Record :: Simple Record
Extracts - Title Proper (normalized)
Item -> Call Number/Volume -> Bibliographic Record :: Flattened MARC
Fields - Tag
Item -> Call Number/Volume -> Bibliographic Record :: Flattened MARC
Fields - Subfield
The final report gives me a simple list of titles with the 650
information for the specified shelving location. Wunderbar!
Lessons learned:
1. Patience and persistence is imperative with reports (I need to be
reminded of this often).
2. The Evergreen community rocks; thanks everyone for the suggestions.
Hopefully this helps anyone else trying to build a similar report.
CM
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Chauncey G. Montgomery, MLIS
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