Linking pdfs to records, other stuff

Today I spent most of my time adding the links and 530 fields to the records for the bound volume. Unfortunately the links aren't working, so I emailed Brad and asked if maybe they hadn't updated from the weekend when he supposedly uploaded them. Or maybe he didn't get around to uploading them on Friday. Hopefully tomorrow they'll magically start working!

The 530 field (Also available as a digital file in PDF format) really started to bug me, since the'F' in PDF stands for 'format'! So, we're essentially saying 'Also available as a digital file in portable document format format'!). I realized that's the terminology we use in the general catalog as well. I probably won't make a big deal about it, and I know many other institutions use the same terminology. I think perhaps 'Also available as a PDF file' would be sufficient, but that would be a lot of records to change. It's probably not that big of a deal. I did some searching in WorldCat to see what people use and there's quite a variety.

I also emailed Cassandra today to see if I could get more detail on what she did with MarcEdit to transform the records into MARCXML (and whether the UTF conversion tool was part of MarcEdit or something separate). I really need to start writing all this stuff up. I'm a little disappointed that we didn't get farther, but I think the main problem at this point is that the records can't even be ingested in DLXS until a final installation is completed. So, no matter how much I might have dragged my feet on some parts of this, I don't think it really made a difference in the end.

Hours today: 3 (4:20-7:20pm)
Hours this week: 3
Total hours completed: 124