Before exporting your records, review your export tables to make sure that you are exporting all of the fields that you want and none of the fields that you don’t want. In particular, make sure that item and order record information containing potentially confidential data is not exported. Manual page 101563 has information about how to view export tables; to change your export tables, you must submit a service request.

If you want to export 970 fields containing table of contents information from a third-party vendor such as Backstage Library Works, you must get your vendor to contact Innovative and give permission before Innovative will change your export table to include 970 fields.

Data Exchange (see manual page 106000) is the easiest way to export the records used for the initial load. Although the file of records that is created will have an .out extension, it is really in .mrc format; it is safe to simply change the extension.

A script for daily exports of new items is available on the IUG Clearinghouse under the title “Create List of New Items automated.”

• Shrew - Tools to fully automate the export of bibliographic and item records from your Innovative Interfaces ILS; see also the Sierra version (though both of these code bases have been archived and may no longer be fully functional).