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From the Code4Lib IRC:
"Rewriting our MARC records to export into vufind is exposing lots of fun record quality problems. Like when I try to rewrite a subfield z and pymarc complains there's 2 of them in the existing field, I look and see one of them says "Access restricted to Stanford community" :/
we've only been telling patrons using our catalog they can't read this journal because we're not Stanford for, uh, 4 years."
😆 #librarylife #academia /sigh
@paregorios we are about to move to Blacklight and I am EXCITED to learn about all our bad data
@platypus I once heard a wise person hold forth to the effect that every new data export, format conversion, or database refactor is an opportunity to clean up messes you didn't know you had. :)