This session will focus on how you can improve the batch cataloguing at your library with MarcEdit, a free software for processing library metadata. This interactive and informative session will highlight many basic and advanced MarcEdit tools and techniques, key features that will help you join and split MARC files, batch process records with regular expressions, and RDA Helper. The latest software updates and the general support for many metadata formats that can improve the access to your e-resources collections will be discussed as well.
Learning Outcomes
To introduce MarcEdit and show how the program can be used for batch editing of MARC files.
To introduce more advanced functions of MarcEdit, such as using regular expressions and mapping MARC to other metadata formats.
Provide some tips and ideas on how to use MarcEdit to make cataloguing at your library more efficient.
