Re: [IUG] Call Number Commas in Bib Records

["Kyle Banerjee" <kyle dot banerjee at gmail dot com>]

Two options come to mind:

1) Write a macro to strip the commas and then export
2) Have the load table strip that out

The load table route is the better solution -- load tables can be used
to perform pretty sophisticated manipulations on fields. If your
institution has had load table training and you send this question to
the load profilers list, I'm sure you'll have a solution quickly.

kyle

> My catalogers, and my own dim memory, tell me that OCLC software used to
> have a way to strip out those commas and not export them.  I've looked
> at the help guide for the current version of the Connexion client (2.1)
> and can't find any notes about this.
>
> Does anybody know if it's still possible to have those records leave the
> OCLC software without the commas?  If not, is it possible to adjust our
> bib load table to strip them on the way in?  I haven't had load table
> training, but it's my understanding that load tables will only deal with
> whole MARC fields, not individual characters within a field.  Am I
> right?


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Kyle Banerjee
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