What Makes This Product Special?
  1. Your particular preferences are saved and applied to incoming records at your request.
  2. You have the opportunity to review and edit the records before bringing them into your library automation system.
  3. This tool, as with all of our tools, is designed to start or stop at any point and resume anytime without loss of data.
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Step 1:
  Export your records
Step 2:
  Set (or review saved) screening options
Step 3:
  Send records to Mitinet servers
Step 4:
  Review/Edit your updated records
Step 5:
  Bring updated records into database
That's it! As easy as 1-2-3...
MARC Defender: Standardize Incoming Records
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Use MARC Defender on every MARC record before you load them into your OPAC. From your box of books from vendors to records retrieved from the web or your automation vendor, every record will be enhanced by using MARC Defender. It’s easy and automatic.

What is MARC Defender?

MARC Defender screens the content of every MARC record from book vendors, the web, or your automation vendors—before you load them.

MARC Defender also checks all records to ensure that important search, circulation, and curriculum fields are present, up to date and correctly placed.

A great MARC record means that your materials will be found, and circulated.

What does MARC Defender do to my records?

  1. Fixes US MARC Code Errors

    Punctuation and ISBN; Control field fixes and updates; Material type fixes; Non-filing indicator fixes

  2. Checks General Quality Factors

    Removes unused, unwanted fields; Global additions to select fields; Add Dewey number if applicable

  3. Screens Key Search Fields

    Adds, updates and removes subject headings (Sears, LC, LC Children's, kid-friendly, politically insensitive)

  4. Updates Award Notes

    Adds, updates and removes award notes (national, regional, and state awards)

  1. Screens Curriculum Control Fields (526 Fields)

    Accelerated Reader; Reading Counts; Removes unwanted fields

  2. Checks Lexile Information

    Adds, updates and removes Lexile scores, titles and measures

  3. Screens Collections Management Fields

    Fixes missing content in key non-holdings fields per material type (pagination, runtime, publication date, author, title, ISBN, publisher, etc)

  4. Screens Circulation Management Fields

    Fixes missing content in key holdings fields (call number, Dewey number, price, US MARC Org Code – Union Catalog, circulation type, funding, etc)

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