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BestMARC


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MARC record management powered by Mitinet® is now available as an exclusive Alexandria integration. Contact our Sales Team if you're interested in adding it to your library!


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, 

converting to RDA format,
fixing tags, genrefying, and more!

Benefits

There is a MARC data analyzation utility and two subscription levels (one including an Alexandria utility) to 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 comprehensive analysis of your catalog’s MARC data!

  • Get an analysis of your catalog through the 

    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 

    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 

Mitinet MARC Update
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

  1. Contact Alexandria's Sales Team to add BestMARC to your license.
  2. Once BestMARC is activated, you can use the utilities in Alexandria.

Alexandria BestMARC powered by Mitinet

  1. Contact Alexandria's Sales Team to add BestMARC to your license.
  2. Once BestMARC is activated, you can use the utilities in Alexandria (EnhanceMARC benefits).
  3. Within 48 hours, you will receive a welcome email from Mitinet with the URL and login credentials to access Mitinet's web-based software portal.

Frequently Asked Questions

Whom 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 BestMARC's support team.

BestMARC

 Preferences > Services > BestMARC
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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 EnhanceMARC utilities.

These utilities are available to both EnhanceMARC and BestMARC users.

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 

this utility
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. 

Check out BestMARC's Enhancements documentation to learn about all of the Mitinet EnhanceMARC utility's options. That way, you can decide which to use for your library and how often.

Be careful changing punctuation.

For the 

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

If you decide not to use this option, you may notice unresolved punctuation errors in your AnalyzeMARC diagnostic. That's okay.

Test options with one title.

The 

Mitinet EnhanceMARC utility
has a lot of options for modifying MARC data. To learn what they do and if you would like to use them, you can 
reference BestMARC's Enhancements documentation
or simply test them out with only one title selected. Then you can easily see what the changes look like.

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