Voyager Extracts and Batch Editing for Catalogers 

Ex Libris Northeast User Group2010 Conference

Mark SandfordSpecial Formats CatalogerWilliam Paterson Universitysandfordm1@wpunj.edu

Yes . . These slides will be available online

after the conference

Today we’ll cover . . .• Gary Strawn’s Vgerselect

• Terry Reese’s MarcEdit 5

• Voyager’s WebAdmin interface

Extracting records from Voyager

• Voyager Cataloging Module• Pmarcexport utility• Vgerselect– Runs on the desktop– Can make decisions– Slower than Pmarcexport, but can run

unattended

Vgerselect• Freely available:

http://www.library.northwestern.edu/public

• Requires the ODBC driver provided by Voyager

• Same drivers required to us MS Access with the Voyager database

MarcEdit 5

• Sophisticated text manipulation• Add or delete fields, subfields• Search and replace (option for Regular

Expressions)• Swap field data• So much more!• Available at http://people.oregonstate.edu/~

reeset/marcedit/html/index.php• Listserv information at• http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=MARCEDIT-L&H=

MAIL04.GMU.EDU

Webadmin

• Web based utility – no extra software required

• Runs reports and certain server jobs• Generates report files for jobs run• Allows for bulk import of files on

workstation• Import based on profiles set up in SysAdmin

Questions

Mark SandfordWilliam Paterson Universitysandfordm1@wpunj.edu973-720-2437