To cap off the year, BestMARC just got a big update that we’ve been working on for many months. We’re excited to get these changes into your hands! As always, we love hearing your feedback. Let us know what you’d like to see. Review the Change Log in BestMARC for the full details, but here is an overview:

We’ve updated BestMARC to support the latest Bibliographic update 31 from the Library of Congress. All the new fields and subfields are now supported in the BestMARC editor.

BestMARC has always supported MARC21, but now we also support the broader Z39.2 specification which allows alphabetic MARC tags. This is frequently used outside the United States. To ensure Unicode files are handled properly for Z39.2 records, you can now choose a file type at import. You can set the default for this in your Profile, but we allow you to override it for each file you import in case you get files from different sources.

The Tools pane, where you select and create Global Edits or Enhancements, has received a makeover. It now consists of a 2-pane view where the details view is organized into columns. These columns can be reordered to your own preferences, and sorted. This new view also lets you select multiple items at a time, so you can now delete a batch of items or share a batch of items with a single command.