Hi Brooke
Not yet. As I wrote it should be an easy way (which can be handled by an unsuspecting librarian several times a year). We hoped there is an easier way than install even more software and learn how to use it. After all it's just deleting two characters. But well, I know... "just" and "only" are not valid when dealing with software... sigh.
MarcEdit is a fundamental tool for cataloguing, arguably a must > have for almost any ILS. If you're nervous at all, it's free in terms of price. It's also so easy, an ijiot like meself has very little
As I wrote to Jane Cothron who also suggested MarcEdit: "It's good to know MarcEdit could do it, so I probably will try to persuade the responsible librarian to install and learn MarcEdit (unfortunately this is not a one-off task but the library acquires such data several times a year)." trouble using it. When you get good with it, it can be positively > magical.
As a matter of fact (instead of trying to solve problems with the current Kohadevbox, another task) I was right now downloading Marcedit. I tried it maybe five years ago and hda no use for it then (and as a Linuxite I didn't like the Windows/Wine-dependency). But everything has changed now and I'll give it another try... Then it was just one of many tools, now I got a concrete problem to solve... Best wishes: Michael -- Geschäftsführer · Diplombibliothekar BBS, Informatiker eidg. Fachausweis Admin Kuhn GmbH · Pappelstrasse 20 · 4123 Allschwil · Schweiz T 0041 (0)61 261 55 61 · E mik@adminkuhn.ch · W www.adminkuhn.ch