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