[LM_NET] GEN: Importing MARC records 'manually' via web browser--Your Advice Sought

["Hastings, Jeff" <HASTINGJ@HOWELLSCHOOLS.COM>]

Colleagues,

First of all, let me wish everyone a happy fall. May this school year be
your best ever.

As someone not yet blessed with a spiffy z39.50 'seek-and-steal' MARC
utility, I've often leaned on the Library of Congress for MARC records
which I'd simply call up in full record using Internet Explorer and
then, using the IE File/Save As drop down menu, display and save as a
TEXT file for importing into our current library automation suite,
Winnebago Spectrum. Once imported, I'd customize them to meet the needs
of our 'tweeners.

I've not yet found a way to do this little hack in Firefox (which'd be
great, By the way) and this fall, perhaps due to IE 'upgrades,' (let's
see: we're 7.0.5 ish right now) it no longer seems to work in Internet
Explorer either.

SO:

I'd be happy to hear from anyone who knows how to import MARC records
from the Library of Congress using a current web browser. Am I just
doing something wrong? Maybe I'm just cob-webby after the summer break.

OR: 

I'd be more than happy to hear from someone who uses some sort of open
source or otherwise free utility to import MARC records.

Gratefully,
        
  Jeffrey Hastings,
  School Library Media Specialist
  Highlander Way Middle School,
  Howell, Michigan 

  

 

        
        


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