Extracting your MARC record from Eudora


After you have Finished selecting your MARC records from the union and you have an email message from

UNION_OPAC2@UNION.INFOHIO.ORG

 

Close Eudora (you do not read the message)

 

Place a formatted, empty floppy disk into drive A of your computer.

 

Double click on "My Computer."

Double click on C:

 

Double click on "Eudora"

(or the location that you have Eudora installed)

 

 

Double click on "Attach"

 

 

Click on the MARC record once

 

 

Go to the file menu and select Rename

 

Rename the file to Microlif.001 or Microlif.002, etc. (this allows you to work with multiple files on the same disk) If you are going to only use one file use Microlif.001

 

 

Right click on MICROLIF.001 and select send to 3-½ inch floppy

 

 

Take the 3-½ inch floppy and take it to your Catalog computer

Log in to your Cataloging program

Insert the disk with your record/s into Drive A

Go to the "Import" feature (Follett or Winnebago) If you are using another cataloging system consult your users manual

Import from Drive A

The screen should tell you that the record has been imported

Once you have successfully loaded the MARC Records

Delete the MARC records in you c:\eudora\attach\

Also delete the email message within Eudora


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