Voyager Extracts and Batch
Editing for Catalogers
Ex Libris Northeast User Group
2010 Conference
Mark Sandford
Special Formats Cataloger
William Paterson
University
sandfordm1@wpunj.edu
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
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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/ind
ex.php
• Listserv information at
• http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=MARCEDITL&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
Questions
Mark Sandford
William Paterson University
sandfordm1@wpunj.edu
973-720-2437