Comment 3 for bug 347736

Eric is correct

Ammending marcs is not a solution as the scanning is half way complete at this point on the scans. Any future collections coming into the Toronto Scanning center from government institutions such as the Library and Archive's Canada, Ontario Legislative Library, and Provincial or Federal donors, will more often than not be in a billingual format.

"So, we have been running an xml task to add the second language code
before the book is scanned and derived" - however, when dealing with over a thousand items - this is extremely time consuming."

Yes it is.

Any future collections coming into the Toronto Scanning center from government institutions such as the Library and Archive's Canada, Ontario Legislative Library, and Provincial or Federal donors, will more often than not, be in a billingual format. Unfortunately asking donors to change marcs, if they are not serials ( like the M.O.E's) , is something that most likely will not be accomplished before given to us - especially if the Ontario Council of Universitiy Libraries will be sponsoring the text's ( what this means is the scans have to happen before a certain end date as stipulated between the donor and OCUL). There is no lead time to accomplish mass .marc changes on the donors end.

"It looks as though this experimentation has been going on for a month or so. Did anyone consider just emailing me during that time?"

I will check with Andrea and Katie - but I believe concern over this was raised a little while ago.

In the end, if this can't be done, it can't be done :)

Gabe