Greetings, We have a small library, and for the sake of simplicity, we run without zebra. When I run rebuild_nozebra.pl interactively I'm getting errors on 15 of our 8000+ records. Judging by the biblioitem numbers, I think all or most of these records got into the system when we imported MARC records from Sagebrush Athena. The errors fall into 2 categories: Error 1 ---------------- Cannot decode string with wide characters at /usr/lib/perl/5.8/Encode.pm line 166 I can see the wide characters when I query biblioitems.marcxml. For example, there's an accent mark over an illustrator's name in one of the Harry Potter books. How do I fix these records? I note that the biblioitems table contains: a) marcxml longtext b) marc longblob Error 2 --------------- No close tag marker The MARC record is indeed missing close tags. In each case, the datafield tag 952, subfield 6 is not closed. The MARC record ends like this: <datafield tag=952" ind1=" " ind2=" "> <subfield code="7">0</subfield> <subfield code="p">5595</subfield> <subfield code="4">0</subfield> <subfield code="0">0</subfield> <subfield code="6">SPA_635_900000000000000_S ******************* How should I fix these errors and how should I prevent them in the future? If I manually repair biblioitems.marcxml do I also need to repair biblioitems.marc (which is a blob)? Thanks, Jeff LePage -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html