Hi Rachel & all,
I did check a couple of random biblios and found that those checked had 000/9 set as UCS/Unicode.
So here you mean that the records you already have in your catalogue have the same value in their leader 009 than the record you have just downloaded. Is that correct ?
Thank you for suggesting $ yaz-marcdump, I will leave that to my geek.
Good idea IMHO.
The "can't call method 'as_usmarc' on an undefined value" error is a bit annoying and we are seeing it more now.
Not sure I understand what you mean. Reading your original post, I thought you had a problem with just one freshly downloaded record. With this sentence I get the impression that the problme may affect several records.
For instance, "resumes" and "jobs" searches result in the error but "640.14" searches show the materials. Searching "atlas" and "maps" has the error but "map" does not as well as "medical" but not "medical dictionary."
Do you mean this happens when the record you have downloaded is in the catalogue and it didn't happen before it was imported ?
I read somewhere that the error may have something to do with an incompatibility with Marc favors in the database. Whatever the issue, I'd like it to be resolved and am not sure where to start.
Perhaps these nasty encoding things should be tackled by your computer scientist rather than you ? I hope you are not taking the quesiton in a bad way. What I mean is that these kind of problems are difficult ones for whoever is not familiar with the area of encodings... Hope you will solve your problem soon. Best wishes, Sébastien.