converting from access to MARC and back

Question

i have a access files with details about book and i need to take the details and turn them to a marc record and vice versa. how is the best way to do it?

Answer 1

I doubt that you'll find anything that will get you there in one jump. Your best bet is most likely going to involve reading the records from Access using your favorite data access technique and then pumping it into something that speaks MARC. I haven't used it, but the MARCNet project looks promising. The MARC format isn't that difficult to implement by hand (it's all just text flat-files at heart), but a lot depends on who you are going to end up talking to and how picky they are.