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Minyoung Chung and Phani Chaitanya Pendyala: Enhancing Serials Holdings Data: A Pymarc-Powered Clean-Up Project
https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/17839
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Enhancing Serials Holdings Data: A Pymarc-Powered Clean-Up Project

Following the recent transition from Inmagic to Ex Libris Alma, the Technical Services department at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles undertook a post-migration cleanup initiative. This article introduces methodologies aimed at improving irregular summary holdings data within serials records using Pymarc, regular expressions, and the Alma API in MarcEdit. The challenge [...]

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