The “ABC” of MarcEdit

This mini-workshop will introduce MarcEdit, a free software designed to highlight methods in manipulating bibliographic data in the digital age.This mini-workshop will introduce MarcEdit, a free software designed to highlight methods in manipulating bibliographic data in the digital age.This mini-workshop will introduce MarcEdit, a free software designed to highlight methods in manipulating bibliographic data in the digital age.

Aligning with this year’s annual conference theme: “Openness in teaching and research: Broadening our horizons for the digital future”, the main focus of this mini-workshop is to highlight on the benefits and skills librarians and information technologists might acquire while using this tool in solving daily technical requirements.

It will be divided into two parts:

• Part A. (Duration: 1 hour): includes a detailed presentation about different nomenclature and services used and how catalogers, archivists, and systems’ librarians can benefit from this freeware tool that could be broadcasted to all Amical members.
• Part B. (Duration: 1 hour): hand-on tutorial including live demo will be delivered in a computer lab.

Learning Outcomes. By the end of this mini-workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Understand the basic concepts of MarcEdit.
2. Use MarcEdit to perform tasks, such as: a. Apply bulk conversions to bibliographic records, like adding, updating, deleting, and/or modifying fields. b. Search bibliographic records using Z39.50 (Library of Congress, OCLC WorldCat, etc.) c. Harvest Institutional Repositories (IR) and updating collections via Open Archives Initiative (OAI-PMH, ORE) d. Connect the tool with OCLC APIs and Integrated Library Systems.
3. Perform data validation for interoperability and data migration among different heterogeneous systems.