This project (MatchMARC) is a Google Sheets Add-on created for the Lehigh University Libraries technical services team.
I collaborated on this project with Lehigh's Cataloging/Metadata Librarian, Lisa McColl, who helped me understand the needed functionality. She did all of the testing and provided feedback for each iteration of the project.
We co-presented a session about this project to the ALA Technical Services Workflow Efficiency Interest group during the American Library Association's 2019 annual conference. You can view our slides here: https://connect.ala.org/HigherLogic/System/DownloadDocumentFile.ashx?DocumentFileKey=3a69473d-a4a3-4781-a546-72b394ef3886
We co-authored this article about the project in the November 2019 issue of the code4lib journal:
https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/14813
This add-on is publicly available using the “Add-ons > Get add-ons” menu in any Google Sheet. A search for MARC will show the add-on.
You can also find the add-on here:
https://gsuite.google.com/marketplace/app/matchmarc/903511321480
- WorldCat metadata API for emails
- Addition of standard number for searching
- Typo on sidebar
- Added a validation that stops the search if the same tab is selected in both drop-down boxes
- Changed the API Key field in sidebar.html to type=password so the key isn't in plain text
- In the code that creates fields to add to records that will be emailed, namespace was added. Otherwise a blank namespace was added. At times MarcEdit would then not import the newly created fields. Example:
- Fix - when a subfield is not found in a record, treat it like a no-match.
- If it finds duplicate local holdings, it will select one and bold the row so you know it found a duplicate
- If no match is found, it will select the top match (with the most holdings) only if you check the box: Select first record when no match?
- New ISSN Search: If you label row one, column one "ISBN" it will search by ISBN. If you label row one, column one "ISSN" it will search by ISSN
- Email is now separate from the search/match functionality. After you have searched for the records, the 'email' is a 2nd step. The email will use the 001 values found in the search to retreive the MARC records. You will have to fill in the field informing the script which column the 001 value is in.
- On the search criteria tab, you can only configure the starting column for the data you want written to the spreadsheet. This was done to speed up the execution. Google Apps script is much faster when it is writing a block of cells instead of writing one cell at a time. This speeds up the execution considerably.
- When you email the file to yourself, you can add MARC fields to each record. Configure this by putting the field/subfield in the column heading and the values in the rows for each record. You can add multiple fields to each record. (Please see screen print below for clarification)
- You can have it write up to 25 fields to the spreadsheet.
- If you request an emailed file, the file will exclude duplicate records
