The ultimate combination.
The best metadata management is backed by the best data services to keep your database up-to-date and accurate. Mitinet’s industry-leading ExpertMARC™ team provides full-service database cleanups & MARC record updates based on your timeline, budget and needs so your readers are always able to discover more.
AnalyzeMARC™ Report
Our free AnaylzeMARC report helps you uncover flaws and other issues that may have been overlooked in the past with your library data. With this diagnostic tool, we assist you with exporting and uploading your current database through our BestMARC website. We run your records through our diagnostic software and report the state of your data, including:
- Your collections
- Call number prefix consistency
- Cataloging standards (RDA or AACR2)
- Technical and syntax errors
- Brief and duplicate records
- Enhancements that could be performed automatically:
- Award note updates
- Subject heading updates
- Reading program updates
With the report complete, we’ll schedule a time consult with you so we can answer your questions and make recommendations to meet your needs.
ExpertMARC™ Database Migrations and Conversions
Your catalog is your most valuable asset. Let our in-house team of database experts do the heavy lifting when it comes to MARC database migration and conversion with full support for:
- RDA conversion
- Union Database creation for migration
- Duplicate record removal
ExpertMARC™ Database Cleanup
Mitinet’s ExpertMARC team can create a fully-customized solution based on your specific needs. A database clean-up is easy, fast, and efficient to save time and money.
- MARC record repair
- Brief to full record updates
- Call Number standardization
- Reading program updates for Accelerated Reader 360®, Fountas & Pinnell®, Lexile®, Reading Counts!®, & ReadnQuiz™
- Subject Heading updates (Sears, Library of Congress, and Library of Congress Childrens’)
- Duplicate record removal (depending upon automation system)
- Custom global edits, and much more
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ExpertMARC™ Custom Record Updates and Conversions
Does your MARC database contain content that is no longer needed? Or missing content that needs to be added? Or do you need to create a large quantity of MARC records from scratch? Let our team at Mitinet Library Services know your specific MARC record needs and they’ll work with you on an affordable solution.
- Customized MARC record creation and conversions
- Customized MARC record updates