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Mitinet is a third-party MARC record enhancement service. They take your MARC records, clean them up, and send them back to you. Here are a few of the enhancements they can make to your records:
Visit the Mitinet Library Services website to learn more about what they can do for you.
BENEFITS
MARC update import procedure that allows for the proper updating of Title records and the ability to remove duplicate titles without losing necessary relational links.
Better user experience. Customers will not need to know or understand as much about what they are doing when working with Mitinet or other providers to clean or maintain their data. Run a specific named export followed by a specific named import. Merge Titles capability.
Titles are identified by Title RSN, stored in MARC 998a.
We eliminate duplicates identified by Mitinet by reading the 998b field of the master record.
For a process that doesn’t include duplication elimination, no 998b subfields are created.
We completely replace the MARC record in Alexandria with the updated record from the import file. Merge Title data behavior is identified below.
Use Mitinet to clean up your library catalog.
Changes to title records made after export but before import will be lost.
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. |
After you've finished making modifications to your records, make sure you follow the Update Existing instructions to get your records back into your library system (not the Import New instructions).
Alexandria has different procedures for adding new records and updating existing records. If these are existing records that are already in your Alexandria library and you want to update them, follow the Update Existing instructions.
Once you have the updated record file from Mitinet,
If your system is backed up regularly, you should not need to do an extra backup, but you do need to make sure you have access to the backup file in case you need to start over. Contact your IT department about how your system is backed up. If your system is not backed up regularly, see Alexandria's documentation or contact COMPanion about the backup procedure. |
During the import process, Alexandria will eliminate duplicate titles
Alexandria will move or merge parts of the record from titles being removed into titles being retained, including: