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BestMARC
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BestMARC is an optional Alexandria integration. Contact our Sales Team if you're interested in adding it to your library!
BestMARC offers quick and convenient ways to evaluate, clean up, and supplement your MARC data. With this tool, you can make your catalog more helpful and discoverable by adding reading program information,
converting to RDA format,
fixing tags, genrefying, and more! Let BestMARC do the work so you can spend more time with your patrons and work on other projects.Benefits
There are two subscription levels to help libraries manage their MARC records.
Plus
BestMARC Plus is entirely integrated with Alexandria, meaning everything can be done through two Alexandria utilities. No exports or imports necessary!
- Get a diagnostic of your catalog, 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
- Enhance your records, including...
- Award Notes
- Reading Programs
- Subject Headings
- Record Repair
- RDA Conversion
Global
In addition to the benefits of Plus, 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
BestMARC Global users will have full access to features not yet integrated with Alexandria through Mitinet's web-based software portal.
Onboarding
Interested in getting BestMARC for your library? Here's what you'll need to do!
- Contact Alexandria's Sales Team to add BestMARC to your license. You'll receive an email from us confirming your registration.
- Contact Mitinet so they can prepare your files.
- Once Mitinet is done helping you set up, you're free to use the Alexandria utilities and Mitinet's portal!
Frequently Asked Questions
Who should I contact for technical support?
Questions about imports should be directed to COMPanion Customer Support, and questions about orders, MARC record quality, or any other MARC information should be directed to Mitinet's support team.
BestMARC
Preferences > Services > BestMARC
SYSTEM Preference
Preferences and Tools
Enable BestMARC. When enabled, BestMARC will show in the Vendors dropdown menu in the Current Item pane of Circulation. Regardless of whether BestMARC is enabled or not, the BestMARC operations will show up in Utilities.
Vendor URL. This field contains BestMARC's current web address and is used mainly for reference.
Operations. Run the Mitinet AnalyzeMARC and Mitinet BestMARC Plus utilities.
These utilities are available to both BestMARC Plus and Global users.
Contact
If you would like to, click on the Contact tab and fill out all of BestMARC's contact information. Be sure to click Save in the upper right-hand corner when you're done. 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 utilities once per quarter (four times a year).
Although the Mitinet BestMARC Plus utility can be run more often than that, four times a year 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 quarter, you may only want to do an RDA conversion once a year.
Check out BestMARC's Enhancements documentation to learn about all of the Mitinet BestMARC Plus utility's options. That way, you can decide which to use for your library and how often.
Be careful changing punctuation.
For the Mitinet BestMARC Plus utility, we do not recommend using the Update Punctuation option as Alexandria works better without extra punctuation.
