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Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Dublin Core

The DCMI Directorate has announced that the DCMI Abstract Model is now available for public comment as a Proposed Recommendation. They are inviting comments on this important document until 5 March 2005. Comments should be sent to the DC-General mailing list with subject "Public Comment DCMI Abstract Model".

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Tuesday, February 08, 2005

MARC Tool

This tool was mentioned in a comment a few days ago, but since the RSS and e-mail folks missed it and some of those reading the Web page may have skipped the comments, here it is again.

The pymarc module provides an API for reading, writing and modifying MARC records from python. MARC (MAchine Readable Cataloging) is a metadata format for bibliographic data.
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While it's not rocket science to read MARC, it's also not something you want to code very often, so pymarc does the lifting for you. pymarc allows you to reading records and extracting arbitrary fields from each record. In addition pymarc provides a mechanism for updating records, and writing records back out in transmission format.

The latest version was released Feb. 2.

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Monday, February 07, 2005

Serials Management

How are folks at smaller libraries managing their serials? We are still using Cardex for check-in. Not the best solution but the last time I looked, several years ago, there was no stand alone serials management product for smaller libraries.

I'd like something that would alert us to missing issues and binding. Something that our users could see the issues received would be nice. If it could read the barcodes from the issues and perform the check-in from that, that would be great. Any suggestions?

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Friday, February 04, 2005

TMEA

Next Wednesday (9 Feb.) I'm off to San Antonio for the rest of the week to attend the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) annual conference. I'm just along for the ride and to support Cora in her run for elementary music vice-president. (I suggested the campaign slogan "Cora's for vice" but that did not get an OK) There may not be any postings after Wednesday morning. San Antonio and musicians are a great combination and I'll be having too much fun to think about MARC or AACR or ISBD. If you know any Texas elementary music teachers mention to them that Cora would make a wonderful VP. If you are going to be in San Antonio too, maybe we could get together for lunch or something.

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MARC Tag of the Month

This month the MARC Tag of the Month at Follett is a MARC Record Sample for an e-book. It is missing the 006 and 007 fields. They do use the option to give the extent of the remote item. I'd have included an 655.

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MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions

The codes listed below have been recently approved for use in MARC 21 records. The new codes will be added to the online MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions. The new codes should not be used in exchange records until after April 2, 2005. This 60-day waiting period is required to provide MARC 21 implementers with time to include the newly defined code in any validation tables they may apply to the MARC fields where the code is used.

Additions:

ogst - Oregon GILS Subject Tree (Oregon: Oregon State Library and Oregon Information Resource Management Division (IRMD)) (subfield $2 in Bibliographic and Community Information records in fields 600-651 and field 040, subfield $f (Cataloging Source / Subject heading/thesaurus conventions) in Authority records) [use after April 2, 2005]
wgst - Washington GILS Subject Tree (Tumwater, WA: Washington State Library) (subfield $2 in Bibliographic and Community Information records in fields 600-651 and field 040, subfield $f (Cataloging Source / Subject heading/thesaurus conventions) in Authority records)[use after April 2, 2005]
anuc - Code anuc signifies that the descriptive elements have been edited and all headings verified against the relevant authority file to prepare the record for inclusion in the Australian National Bibliographic Database. The Australian National Bibliographic Database authenticates records for Australian imprints, and bibliographic and authority records of Australian interest; field 042 (Authentication Code). [use after April 2, 2005]

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