MarcEdit and the LC Catalog

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MarcEdit and the LC Catalog

• Using LCs MARC download and the MarcEdit Z39.50
  Web Gateway.
• Terry Reeseterry.reese_at_oregonstate.edu

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Table of Contents

• Using the LC Catalog
• Downloading MARC records for use in MarcEdit
• Using the MarcEdit Z39.50 Web Gateway
• Downloading Records from the LC Catalog.

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Using the LC Catalog

• Go to http//catalog.loc.gov/
• Select Basic Search
• Enter Mark Twain and hit enter

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Using the LC Catalog (continued)

• From our search, you will receive a large number
  of hits for our purposes, select the first
  item. You should now be on the following screen

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Using the LC Catalog (continued)

• LC offers two download options
• Text (wont work with MarcEdit)
• MARC (will work with MarcEdit)

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Using the LC Catalog (continued)

• To download a record in MARC, click on the MARC
  Format (ONLY SAVE) radio button and click the
  print or save search results button.

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Using the LC Catalog (continued)

• Saving a MARC formated record results in the
  following screen

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Using the LC Catalog (continued)

• To using this data in MarcEdit, use the select
  All feature in your browser to select the data
  and then copy the information and past it into a
  notepad session

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Using the LC Catalog (continued)

• Save the notepad data as test.mrc. Then use the
  MarcBreaker to break the record and open it in
  the MarcEditor

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Using MarcEdits Z39.50 Web Gateway

• Access MarcEdits Z39.50 Web Gateway via the
  world link from the MarcEditor

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Using MarcEdits Z39.50 Web Gateway

• Clicking on this button will open the following
  window

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Using MarcEdits Z39.50 Web Gateway

• Select Simple Search under the Library of
  Congress Online Catalog header

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Using MarcEdits Z39.50 Web Gateway

• Clicking on Simple search will bring up the
  following screen Enter Mark Twain in the Search
  box and click on Submit Query

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Using MarcEdits Z39.50 Web Gateway

• Results will be retrieved as the following

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Using MarcEdits Z39.50 Web Gateway

• Click on the More on this record link for any
  Record (this will be the example record we will
  use for this tutorial). When clicking on this
  link, you will get the following screen

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Using MarcEdits Z39.50 Web Gateway

• At the bottom of the screen, you will see links
  with options. Click on the Tagged Display link

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Using MarcEdits Z39.50 Web Gateway

• This is the display that MarcEdit will allow you
  to import into the MarcEditor. Click on the
  Download button highlighted in the window to your
  right

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Using MarcEdits Z39.50 Web Gateway

• When you click on this button, the client window
  will be closed and the data will be moved to the
  MarcEditor.

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Potential issues

• When using the MarcEdit Z39.50 Web Gateway, you
  may run into the following
• Lines that may need to be normalized (i.e., lines
  with extra line breaks)
• Special characters may not always convert (since
  the program is having to work between the HTML
  encoding and the MARC-8 encoding)

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Conclusion

• After working through this tutorial, you should
  now be able to
• Download MARC data from the LC Catalog for use in
  MarcEdit
• Download MARC data from the MarcEdit Z39.50 Web
  Gateway for use in the MarcEditor.
• If you have questions, comments or suggestions,
  please send them to terry.reese_at_oregonstate.edu