Re: MARC::Record and MARC 21 records from EBSCOhost

[Alan Manifold <manifold@PURDUE.EDU>]

I'd say that looks like some kind of minimal wrapper.  The 815 is the
record length of some metarecord, but all that's in it is the 810
character MARC record.  Strip off the "00815", and I suspect that's
a legal record.  I don't know why the 00815 would be there in the
first place, though.

Alan Manifold
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: PERL4LIB -- Perl For Libraries
> [mailto:PERL4LIB@listserv.rice.edu]On Behalf Of Ed Summers
> Sent: 31 October 2002 3:57 PM
> To: PERL4LIB@listserv.rice.edu
> Subject: Re: [PERL4LIB] MARC::Record and MARC 21 records from EBSCOhost
>
>
> Thanks for the double check on Ebsco Michael D :) It's good to know that
> EBSCO exports are working for other people.
>
> Michael B, I took a look at the MARC data file you sent me. I can verify
> the same behavior with MARC::Record v1.12 and Perl 5.8.0.  Interestingly
> enought LC's marcbrkr.exe also chokes on these records.
>
> I did notice that the leaders in these records are invalid: they are
> 10 digits instead of 5. For example here is the first record:
>
> 0081500810cam  2200205
> 450000100130000000500170001300800410003001000270007104000190009804
> 900250011709200180014210000260016024501590018626000530034530000340
> 0398490003700432504003100469590003500500651006900535 AAA-5577
> 19860514001437.0 691215s1969    mauab    b    00010 eng      a
> 77079593  o00047304    aDLC cDLC dm.c.    aHACM o38133000676747
>  a973.208 bG611 1  aGoetzmann, William H. 14 aThe colonial
> horizon; bAmerica in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries:
> interpretive articles and documentary sources. cEdited by William
> H. Goetzmann. 0  aReading, Mass., bAddison Wesley Pub. Co.
> c[1969]    a213 p. billus., maps. c22 cm. 0  aAmerican history in
> focus series    aBibliographical footnotes.    a41066  c1  Alanar
>  08/70  5.00  0 aUnited States xHistory yColonial period, ca.
> 1600-1775 vSources.
>
> Notice the string of 10 digits at the beginning? According to the
> MARC21 docs
> [1] this should be 5 digits.
>
> We're you able to succesfully import this data into your OPAC?
>
> //Ed
>
> [1] http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdldrd.html