extracting call number from online library catalogs
extracting call number from online library catalogs
I'm finding that Bookends' filters for University of California Melvyl and the Library of Congress aren't extracting the call number of books; what can be done?
Well, if you look on Melvyl for Richard Tuck's "Philosophy and Government," the MARC record looks like this:Jon wrote:I have
050a,050b
in the LOC tag field next to call number and it imports fine for me.
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LDR 01267^am^^2200373^a^4504
005 20020320000000.0
008 920421s1993 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a92016033
020 $a0521360005 (hardback)
020 $a0521438853 (pbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)25831768
035 9 $a(UCD)AHO-7295
035 9 $a(SBN)AHM7345
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dUKM$dCUZ
100 1 $aTuck, Richard,$d1949-
245 10$aPhilosophy and government, 1572-1651 /$cRichard Tuck.
260 $aCambridge [England] ;$aNew York, NY, USA :$bCambridge University Press,
$c1993.
300 $axviii, 386 p. ;$c23 cm.
490 1 $aIdeas in context
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 349-370) and index.
650 0$aPolitical science$xHistory$y16th century.
650 0$aPolitical science$xHistory$y17th century.
830 0$aIdeas in context.
852 $aRVB$brstk$hJA82$i.T83 1993
852 $aIRB$bmain$hJA82$i.T83 1993
852 $aSCB$bmstax$jJA82.T83 1993
852 $aDVXL$bSHLDS-GEN$hJA82$i.T83 1993
852 $aLAGE$byr$hJA82$i.T83 1993
852 $aGLAD$bMAIN$hJA82$i.T83 1993
852 $aSBXL$bMAIN$hJA82$i.T83 1993$nus
852 $aSDB$bck6$hJA82$i.T83 1993
049 $aCUZA
090 $aJA82.T83 1993
901 $aSCB$b1300413x
Right, but these are standard filters supplied with Bookends. The Melvyl filter isn't extracting all the information that could populate fields in Bookends. Are users expected to modify these? I have no expertise in this area.Jon wrote:Sources differ. I said LOC.
Filters are editable -- add or remove anything you want.
By the way, EndNote doesn't appear to process Melvyl records as MARC, but uses some other system. Does the type of query determine the type of data sent from the library online catalog? Which system is EndNote using?
Melvyl
There's a lot of variety in the records in Melvyl. Part of that is the nature of the records, part is the nature of having a multi-library system "flat-filed" into a single data lookup.
In my LOC call # field, I have "050a,050b,090a,090b,090d" included. Note in the record you included that 090a has the call # information you want. Often it is in 050a (and 050b), but not in this case. Hence the default filter....
When I really need to track down an item from a UC library, esp if my home campus doesn't have it, I need ALL library info and call # info, esp since libraries can differ in their cataloging protocols (e.g., different libraries can use diff LOC call #s for the same book). Note again, in the record you included, that there are a # of 852 records with 3 or 4 letter codes, followed by another code plus the call #. That is the concatenated library information (fyi - IRB is UCI, LAGE is UCLA, GLAD is Berkeley, and so on) plus brief info on which library at that campus has it (LAGE yr means UCLA YRL, i.e., the main research library, but LAGE sr would mean UCLA SRLF, the storage facility).
Because of all this, I also use "852a,852b,852g,852h,852i,852j,852p,8523" - which I have personalized for my filter to be entered into the notes field, since I don't want all of that info in the LOC call # field, esp. since I might not want that UC-specific library info in the future.
Note that there are plenty of other libraries with similar issues - multiple libraries on campus, state systems with many campuses, etc. so hopefully this is of general use. I just completed a research project in which I discovered far more about this stuff than I ever hoped to.
Hope that helps. Melvyl is a pain in the arse. But it's an amazing library system with incredible holdings, so it's tough to complain too much.
In my LOC call # field, I have "050a,050b,090a,090b,090d" included. Note in the record you included that 090a has the call # information you want. Often it is in 050a (and 050b), but not in this case. Hence the default filter....
When I really need to track down an item from a UC library, esp if my home campus doesn't have it, I need ALL library info and call # info, esp since libraries can differ in their cataloging protocols (e.g., different libraries can use diff LOC call #s for the same book). Note again, in the record you included, that there are a # of 852 records with 3 or 4 letter codes, followed by another code plus the call #. That is the concatenated library information (fyi - IRB is UCI, LAGE is UCLA, GLAD is Berkeley, and so on) plus brief info on which library at that campus has it (LAGE yr means UCLA YRL, i.e., the main research library, but LAGE sr would mean UCLA SRLF, the storage facility).
Because of all this, I also use "852a,852b,852g,852h,852i,852j,852p,8523" - which I have personalized for my filter to be entered into the notes field, since I don't want all of that info in the LOC call # field, esp. since I might not want that UC-specific library info in the future.
Note that there are plenty of other libraries with similar issues - multiple libraries on campus, state systems with many campuses, etc. so hopefully this is of general use. I just completed a research project in which I discovered far more about this stuff than I ever hoped to.
Hope that helps. Melvyl is a pain in the arse. But it's an amazing library system with incredible holdings, so it's tough to complain too much.