Learn more about our Mitinet services if you're interested in easy MARC record cleanup and enhancement with Alexandria utilities. |
Mitinet is a third-party service that helps libraries get materials in the hands of patrons through better MARC records. They take your MARC records, streamline and enhance them, then send them back to you. Here are a few of the improvements they can make:
Visit the Mitinet Library Services website to learn more about what they can do for you.
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Exporting records will create a copy of your database and will not interrupt your circulation. Changes to the records will be seen once you import the records back into Alexandria.
Once you've exported your records, do not add, change or delete any records from your database until after your records have been updated and you've imported them back into your database. |
Once you have the updated record file from Mitinet, you can import the file to update your library records. The import process will eliminate duplicate titles and merge record data from titles being removed into titles being retained. This data includes copy records, title statistics, pending holds, accession date, modification date (right now), and last used date.
Remember to back up your library before importing a Mitinet record update in case you need to start over. Read Back Up Your Data for more information. |
And that's it! You can view details about what data was merged and what couldn't be updated in the import summary file located in Operation Management.