Adding a Fields

Description:
This tutorial provides a quick overview on using the MarcEditors built-in Add Field function

Table of Contents
This tutorial will covering the following topics. To get the most out of this tutorial, please open MarcEdit and follow along.
Getting Started Opening the MarcEditor

Selecting a file

Initializing the Add Field Dialog Add Field Dialog Making changes Conclusion

Getting Started
To open MarcEdit, simply click on the MarcEdit Icon on your Desktop or select MarcEdit from Start/Programs/MarcEdit. When MarcEdit opens, it will look like the picture below.

Opening the MarcEditor

The MarcEditor can be accessed from two locations. The first by selecting the File/MARC Tools option in the menu and the second by selecting the MarcEditor Icon on the main screen. See the images below.

MarcEditor Selecting a file

For the purposes of this tutorial, please select example1.mrk. This file is located at the following location (using the default installation): c:\program files\marcedit\examples\example1.mrk. If you have another file that you would like to use for the purpose of this tutorial, feel free to use that file instead. Opening the file:

Either select File/Open from the Menu Or click on the following icon:

Initializing the Add Field Dialog

The Add Field function can be initialized by clicking on the Tools/Add Field Menu option.

Add Field Dialog: Description

The Add field dialog has two arguments:

Select Field: This is the field that you would like to add. Field Data: This is the data that you would like the field to contain. Please note that Field data includes the indicators (\\) and the subfield data to be added to the field. As noted in the help file, subfield delimiters are noted by using a $. Real dollar signs are noted by using the mnemonic {dollar}

Making the Changes

To globally add a new field, select the field to be added and the data to be added to the field and then click add field.

When the changes have been made, the program will report the number of fields added.

Conclusion
Remember, after making edits, you must always remake MarcEdits mnemonic file format back into MARC to be loading by most electronic catalogs. Overall, I have tried to make the MarcEditor editing functions as easy to use as possible. From reading this tutorial, users should now be able to:

Open a file into the MarcEditor Initialize the Add Field Dialog Add a new field to a set of MARC records.

If you have suggestions on how this tutorial could have been more helpful for you, feel free to contact: terry.reese@orst.edu