Mitinet sets the standard in metadata management. Virtual cataloging offers quick and convenient ways to analyze, enhance and standardize your MARC data. Make your catalog more helpful and discoverable by adding reading program information, 

fixing tags, genrefying, and more!

Benefits

There is a MARC data analyzation utility and two subscription levels (one including an Alexandria utility) to are three Mitinet services that help libraries manage their MARC records.

Alexandria AnalyzeMARC powered by Mitinet

Mitinet AnalyzeMARC is a fully-integrated utility within Alexandria that allows you to perform and receive a 

of your catalog’s MARC data!

• Get an analysis of your catalog through the 

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  Mitinet AnalyzeMARC utility,

  which includes...

  • Holdings by Location
  • Collection Types Statuses
  • AACR2 / RDA Cataloging Standards
  • MARC Record Fields Status
  • Brief Record Summary
  • Award Notes
  • Subject Headings
  • Reading Programs
  • Duplicate Records Summary
    
    

Alexandria EnhanceMARC powered by Mitinet

EnhanceMARC is entirely integrated within Alexandria, meaning MARC data enhancements can be made from within Alexandria’s interface. No exports or imports necessary!

• Enhance your records with the 

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  Mitinet EnhanceMARC utility,

  including...

  • Award Notes
  • Reading Programs
  • Subject Headings
  • Record Repair
  • RDA Conversion
    
    

Alexandria BestMARC powered by Mitinet

BestMARC subscribers will have full access to features not yet integrated with Alexandria through Mitinet's web-based software portal. Check out our 

article for instructions on exporting and importing your data into BestMARC to make these changes.

In addition to the benefits of AnalyzeMARC and EnhanceMARC, BestMARC Global users have access to...

• Record Source & Cataloging. Search, original cataloging.

• Subject Explorer. Find and add new subjects.

• Global Editing. Create and save powerful instructions to make batch changes to your database.

• Workflows. Combine Enhancements and Global Edits sequentially for easy processing.

• Lists & Selections. Focus on smaller groups of records.

• Checkpoints. Side-by-side record comparison, undo changes.

• Collaboration Tools. Account Management, Sharing Features.
  
  

Mitinet and Alexandria Terms

• Alexandria AnalyzeMARC powered by Mitinet. MARC database analysis tool.

• Alexandria EnhanceMARC powered by Mitinet. Automated enhancements to MARC records.

• Alexandria BestMARC powered by Mitinet. MARC record sourcing with automated cataloging, editing, workflows and collaboration tool.

Onboarding

Interested in getting BestMARC for your library? Here's what you'll need to do!

Alexandria EnhanceMARC powered by Mitinet

Alexandria BestMARC powered by Mitinet

Frequently Asked Questions

Whom should I contact for technical support?

Preferences and Tools

Contact

If you would like to, click on the Contact tab and fill out all of BestMARC's contact information. This will make it easier for you and your staff to contact BestMARC's support team if you have questions in the future.

Best Practices

Here are some general recommendations for getting the most out of BestMARC.

Run the Mitinet AnalyzeMARC utility once a year. 

Although you can run 

and get a diagnostics report up to four times a year, we recommend doing it once per year (during summer or winter break). This allows you to check on your MARC records and do potential cleanup when things aren't busy.

Run the Mitinet EnhanceMARC utility once a month.

Although this utility can be run more often than that, once a month is what we recommend. And you may not need to use the same options each time! For example, while you'll probably want to update reading program information every time, you may only want to do an RDA conversion once a year. 

Be careful changing punctuation.

For the 

we do not recommend using the Update Punctuation option as it's unnecessary in Alexandria and records look better without it.

Test options with one title.

The 

has a lot of options for modifying MARC data. To learn what they do and if you would like to use them, you can 

or simply test them out with only one title selected. Then you can easily see what the changes look like.