MARC Firewall™
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From book vendors to records retrieved from the web or your automation vendor, protect your library data integrity and enhance every record using MARC Firewall™. For fast and easy screening of your incoming MARC records, use MARC Firewall™ to correct errors, update and add content per your specifications, with an instantaneous turn-around time! Options include:

  • Accelerated Reader®, all current versions
  • Data-matching for Lexile®
  • Sears 20 or Library of Congress subject heading updates
  • Holdings information for hassle free checkouts
  • Customized services (eligibility based on current subscription)

Like a coveted library assistant that is all knowledgeable and always available, MARC Firewall™ screens the content of every MARC record 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. It also means that time consuming issues caused by bad MARC records won’t be an issue in your library!

  • Fixes US MARC Code Errors
  • Screens for General Quality Factors
  • Screens Key Search Fields Subject Headings
  • Awards notes
  • Screens Curriculum Control Fields, 526 Fields
  • Lexile®
  • Screens Collections Management Fields, Missing Content – Key Non-holdings Fields per material type
  • Screens Circulation Management Fields, Missing Content – Key Holdings Fields



MARC Wizard
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.
Quick View

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...