In just a few weeks, students will return to university and will certainly want to take advantage of the wide range of resources available through their university library. These same students might return to campus with a new MacBook, or another Apple device. Many library resources can be accessed directly on campus, without the need […]
This will sound very boring to anyone not involved with Library data, but pymarc totally blew my mind the other day. The library – available from https://pypi.org/project/pymarc/ or via pip install pymarc allows super simple processing of MARC data. My personal need was to quickly and efficiently convert records from MARCXML to MARC21. To do that you obviously […]
Great news for all macOS users of MarcEdit by Terry Reese. Since MarcEdit 3 (for macOS) the application comes with its own command line tools! In the past you had to install Mono and a copy of cmarcedit.exe, but now you can “talk” to the App directly. A command line to convert MarcXML to Marc21 would […]
