Re: GEN: Downloadable MARC records

[Dan Robinson <dlrbnsn2@eclipse.net>]

This not quite true of a downloaded MARC record. What you get is the
electronic transmission format. It expects to be loaded into an opac
and the opac will interpret it correctly.

I downloaded one MARC record and opened it in Wordpad. This is what
I  got:  (in one long string)

00920nam  2200265 a
4500001000900000005001700009008004100026010002000067020001500087035002
5001020400018001270500025001450820012001701000027001822450073002092600
0440028230000470032652001600037365000190053365000200055265000260057265
0002200598700002000620999001400640 ADJ-1673 19981002100726.1 970805s1
998    meua   b      000 1 eng
     a   97031124 /AC
 a0892724277 00 ilcmarc/AVV-5749/JOHN
 aDLC cDLC dDLC 00 aPZ8.3.R785 bCat 1998 00 a[E] 221 1  aRowinski,
Kate, d1955- 10 aCats in the dark / cby Kate Rowinski ; illustrated by
Bonnie Bishop.    aCamden, Me. : bDown East Books, cc1998.    a1 v.
(unpaged) : bcol. ill. ; c20 x 26 cm.    aWhen the children wake at
midnight because of tremendous racket throughout the lighthouse, they
expect to find an army of ccats turning the place to jumble.
1 aCats xFiction.  1 aNight xFiction.  1 aLighthouses xFiction.
1 aStories in rhyme. 1  aBishop, Bonnie.    c997 dMOVL

To turn this file into something readable by a person, you can use a
utility developed at LC called MARCBreakr (dos only).  You can get
the information at: http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marcutil.html .

If you know the Marc formats you can interpret the electronic record.
 The heavy lines are the subfield separators and the directory tells
the program what fields there are and how long they are.

Leader:
00920nam  2200265 a 4500

Directory:
001000900000005001700009008004100026010002000067020001500087035002
5001020400018001270500025001450820012001701000027001822450073002092600
0440028230000470032652001600037365000190053365000200055265000260057265
0002200598700002000620999001400640

001:
ADJ-1673

005:
19981002100726.1

008:
970805s1998    meua   b      000 1 eng

etc.....


Dan Robinson
Indexing Services
H.W. Wilson Company
Bronx, NY
drobinson@hwwilson.com (work)
dlrbnsn2@eclipse.net (home)

On  3 Jun 99 at 18:13, Melissa Davis wrote:

> Gordon Riley wrote:
> >
> > BCCLS is a consortium in Bergen County, NJ, using DRA.  The download =
> > record function is probably meant for the consortium and DRA users.  Using =
> > Netscape for Windows, I was able to download a MARC record to the A drive, =
> > but nothing I have could read it. =20
>
> MARC records are in plain ASCII text format. Using Windows 95 or 98, you
> can open Windows Explorer; select the file name that you saved the
> record as; right click on the filename; select Open (or Open With if you
> get that choice) and open the file with Wordpad. Notepad will also work,
> but wordpad give a neater display because it wraps the long lines.
>
> --
>         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>         Melissa Davis                              Librarian

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