Re: newbie question: isbn -> marc?

2003-09-11 Thread Bill White
On Tue Aug 26 2003 at 16:15, Ed Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:10:52PM -0500, Bill White wrote: >> Is there an easy perl way to retrieve a MARC record for a given ISBN? > > As others have noted this is just what Z39.50 is built for. But if > you are in the mood to t

Re: MARC::Record leader

2003-09-11 Thread Chuck Bearden
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 10:49:37AM -0500, Ed Summers wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:40:48AM -0500, Chuck Bearden wrote: > > I hope this helps. > > This helps for the order of the fields, but from looking at his > program it looks like the more pernicious problem is the order of the > subfie

Re: MARC::Record leader

2003-09-11 Thread Ed Summers
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:40:48AM -0500, Chuck Bearden wrote: > I hope this helps. This helps for the order of the fields, but from looking at his program it looks like the more pernicious problem is the order of the subfields within each field! //Ed

Re: MARC::Record leader -- notes field order

2003-09-11 Thread Jackie Shieh
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Chuck Bearden wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 05:30:37PM -0400, Joshua Ferraro wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 02:05:24PM -0500, Ed Summers wrote: > [...] > > > > > > The call to as_usmarc() will populate the record length for you. So you > > > shouldn't have to do it y

Re: MARC::Record leader

2003-09-11 Thread Chuck Bearden
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 05:30:37PM -0400, Joshua Ferraro wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 02:05:24PM -0500, Ed Summers wrote: [...] > > > > The call to as_usmarc() will populate the record length for you. So you > > shouldn't have to do it yourself when building a record on the fly. We're you > >