Re: [patch] Revised MARC::Doc::Tutorial

2003-11-17 Thread Morbus Iff
>Wonderful, many thanks for your hard work Morbus. When you commit changes >please remember to update the Changes file in CVS. This way when we finally >get around to building a new tarball for CPAN have to remember all the stuff >that was changed :) Poopie, forgot about that. I do have plans to f

Re: [patch] Revised MARC::Doc::Tutorial

2003-11-17 Thread Ed Summers
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:14:27PM -0500, Morbus Iff wrote: > >Attached is a gzip'd patch to address a number of corrections > >to the MARC::Doc::Tutorial documentation. In particular: > > > > * numerous grammatical, punctuation and spelling errors fixed (unfinished). > > * "listserv" was replaced

Re: [patch] warn, not croak, on 010 non-tag access.

2003-11-17 Thread Ed Summers
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:15:22PM -0500, Morbus Iff wrote: > > Since MARC tags less than 010 can not have indicators or subfields, > > not allowing those ::Field methods to be called on those tags make sense. > > However, this should be a warn(), not a croak(), otherwise looping > > code will

Re: [patch] warn, not croak, on 010 non-tag access.

2003-11-17 Thread Morbus Iff
> Since MARC tags less than 010 can not have indicators or subfields, > not allowing those ::Field methods to be called on those tags make sense. > However, this should be a warn(), not a croak(), otherwise looping > code will need to conditionally check tag numbers before continued > processi

Re: [patch] Revised MARC::Doc::Tutorial

2003-11-17 Thread Morbus Iff
These changes have been commited to CVS. >Attached is a gzip'd patch to address a number of corrections >to the MARC::Doc::Tutorial documentation. In particular: > > * numerous grammatical, punctuation and spelling errors fixed (unfinished). > * "listserv" was replaced with "mailing list". Listse

RE: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-17 Thread Booher, Craig
I've used askSam (http://www.asksam.com/) for personal catalogs of tracks on CD's, bibliographic records of books, and research notes. It's power derives from it's flexibility in record structure (you define the structure for each database). It's been around for almost 20 years and has a strong tr

RE: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-17 Thread Morbus Iff
>I'm not sure what you are looking for is a library catalog. If you want >access to individual articles, it can be done in MARC but there may be >better options. There is bibliographic citation software, Endnote and >Procite are some of the best known. Whilst I am indeed still looking for the panac

RE: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-17 Thread Bigwood, David
Morbus, I'm not sure what you are looking for is a library catalog. If you want access to individual articles, it can be done in MARC but there may be better options. There is bibliographic citation software, Endnote and Procite are some of the best known. oss4lib lists Citation Manager as an OS