Loading links into Sierra

In Excel File from IA (with list of links of digitized material)

  • Add Reproduction statement:

    • Also available as electronic reproduction.$bPrinceton, N.J. :$cInternet Archive ;$cThomas J. Watson Library,$d20XX

  • Rearrange columns as needed so that:

    • Column A: URL

    • Column B: Record #

    • Column C: Title

    • Column D: Reproduction

  • Sort by Column B (Record #) and Save

  • Save as a Unicode text file “[file name].txt”

  • Open the text file and Save As a UTF-8 text file (overwrite existing file)

  • Close

Open MarcEdit

  • Open the Delimited Text Translator under Add-ins.

  • Select your new text file as the Source File

  • Under Output file, select the save location and name the file you’ll create.

  • Check the UTF-8 Encoded box.

  • Next

  • Click Load Template and find the “IA_linking_template.mrd” template in S: > Reader Services > Digitization > Internet Archive > templates

  • … or enter field by field as follows:

    • Select field 0 (URL)

      • Map to 856$u – Indicators 40 – Apply

    • Select Field 1 (Record #)

      • Map to 035$a – Leave indicators as \\ -- Apply

    • Select Field 2 (Title)

      • Map to 245$a – Indicators 00 -- Apply

    • Select Field 3 (Reproduction)

      • Map to 533$a – Leave indicators as \\ -- Apply

  • Check “Ignore Header Row”

  • Finish

Open your new .mrk file in MarcEdit

  • Go to Tools > Edit subfield data

    • Enter 856 in Field

    • Enter z in Subfield

    • Enter “Full text from Internet Archive” in Replace with

    • Check “New subfield only”

    • Click Replace Text

  • Go to Add/Delete Field

    • Delete all 008 fields

    • Add 007 field with cr ||| ||a|| [C, R, space, 3 pipes, 3 spaces, 2 pipes, A, 2 pipes] in Field Data

    • Add 983 $aItem added for www location$bwww$c15$dn$ej$fj [this will create an item record with location www]

    • Close

  • Edit > Replace

    • Find =035 \\$ab

    • Replace with =035 \\$a.b

    • Replace all

  • Collapse multi-volume sets into one record

    • Move the 856 fields for additional volumes into the record for the first volume. Delete the remainder of these records.

    • To the 856$z add an appropriate parenthetical qualifier for all volumes, for example:

      • Full text from Internet Archive (Volume 1)

      • Full text from Internet Archive (Volume 2)

  • File > Compile file into MARC

  • Save as .mrc with a new name

  • Close MarcEdit

Open Sierra Data Exchange

  • Select Load Records via a Locally Created Load Profile

  • Get PC

  • Find your .mrc file

  • Upload as .lfts

  • Prep

  • Load M (Load CONTENTdm fields)

  • Check Use Review Files box

  • Load

  • Verify that what you think you loaded actually loaded correctly.

  • Pull the records into a review file; copy the "Load: Overlaid records for..." file into an empty slot in Sierra Create Lists.

  • Delete .errlog, .lfts and .lmarc files if everything went fine.

Sierra Create Lists

  • Create review file of items attached to the bibs of works you just linked (IMPORTANT: narrow to only items from the shipment).

Sierra Global Update

  • Bib records:

    • Delete duplicate fields in bib records.

    • For auction catalogs, delete the 799 “digital auction catalog to upload” field from the bib record.

  • Item records:

    • Convert any IMESSAGE=z (“Digitize later”) to – (dash)

    • Change item record Status and Sticky Status fields as follows:

      • For DEPARTMENT USE ONLY and OPEN SHELVES statuses:

        • Change Sticky Status to match the Status

      • For MISSING and LOST statuses:

        • Leave Status alone

        • Change Sticky Status to AVAILABLE ONLINE

      • For REQUESTABLE status:

        • Change record Status and Sticky Status to AVAILABLE ONLINE, regardless of location

          • Exception: For MMA Publications items, change the STATUS of WARC items only.

Final cleanup and administration

  • File management

    • Delete linking files