[SOLAR-L] Heads up-Work in progress

[John R. Clark]

Good morning from the Starship Enterprise. I'm here to avoid blizzard 
conditions, although the Klingons are rather testy this A.M.

  Seriously, I spent most of the weekend processing bib records to get 
everyone who was waiting caught up. It hasn't been easy. In order to whup 
incoming records into some form ofd civility, I use a combination of Marc 
Edit, Marc Magician and the pre-loading software Karl created. 
Unfortunately, Two of these are on my lasptop and the other (and 
unreplacable one) is on my desktop. Thanks to lots of coffee and three thumb 
drives, I managed to make progress. However, even these tools can't catch 
every little oddity and while reloading Blue Hill yesterday, a process that 
should have taken 3-4 hours, consumed a day and is not complete. However, 
since most libaraies are closed due to the Miami-like weather, I'm plugging 
through the remainder today. If all goes well, I will finish loading Blue 
Hill and do a bit of cleaning before moving on to deleting COA's item 
records and reloading theirs. Sometime later this week, I'll be loading 
Presque Isle.
  I give you this heads up because these processes might slow the Solar 
System at times (If Mars suddenly appears to be orbiting closer to the sun 
than Venus for an hour or two, blame me)
Regards,
John Clark

John R. Clark, M.ED, MLIS-Librarian, Hartland, Maine
"I slipped into that other place; where both my sword and
soul were unsullied and the scent of roses was everywhere.
It was a place where a special maid waited for my all
too infrequent visits."