How to find bib records without a specific field in Create Lists

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Hi all,

Long time lurker, first time poster here. We’re doing some cleanup prior to implementing Discover and I’d like to find bibs that don’t have an 008. I’m pretty sure I attended a presentation at IUG (2023? 2025?) that addressed how to find bibs by fields that don’t exist but now I cannot find it in my notes. Can anyone help?

Thanks!
Karen

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Hi Karen,

You can search for BIBLIOGRAPHIC MARC Tag 008 equal to “” to find those records:

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Hope that helps!

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You can also express this as MARC Tag 008 Not Exists using this JSON expression:

{
  "target": {
    "record": {
      "type": "bib"
    },
    "field": {
      "marcTag": "008"
    }
  },
  "expr": {
    "op": "not_exists",
    "operands": [
      "",
      ""
    ]
  }
}

Alex’s solution is more straightforward and yields identical results, but I offer this as a technique to keep in your back pocket for other situations where “equals empty string” doesn’t work as intended.

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