<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Batch Loading of Item Records from an Excel Spreadsheet</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">Gwyneth</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Duncan</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>Gwyneth Duncan, Systems Librarian, Duke University.&#13;
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As our library began moving long runs of serials to remote storage, we faced the need to itemize and barcode all the volumes. We developed a custom service which reads a tab-delimited file (created via Excel) of item information and both adds items to ALEPH and updates an existing holdings record with the corresponding 863/4/5 fields. </mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Aleph</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8601">2008-07-31</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Conference or Workshop Item</mods:genre></mods:mods>