Voyager Extracts and Batch Editing for Catalogers
Ex Libris Northeast User Group2010 Conference
Mark SandfordSpecial Formats CatalogerWilliam Paterson [email protected]
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 [email protected]