About the MARC Editor

You create and edit the MARC records your library uses to store data by using Horizon’s MARC Editor. The MARC Editor gives you a word‑processor‑like setting where you can easily work with bibliographic (bib), authority, item, and copy records. (For more information, see MARC Editing.)

You can choose to customize the way the MARC Editor displays MARC records. You do this in the Customize Editor. Some customization options separate and differentiate the information on the record, which makes the information easier to read and revise. Other options set user defaults for the MARC Editor’s basic appearance and features.

Your system administrator determines whether the changes that you make in the Customize Editor stay in effect until you change them again or only until you log out.

This chapter explains how to open the Customize Editor. It also explains how to change the attributes of the MARC Editor by clicking on and changing settings in these tabs of the Customize Editor:

Tab

Description

Customizing General Options

This tab lets you choose default views, automatic linking, default authority record link types, and automatic error checking in records.

Changing Profile Options

This tab lets you choose a Browse Link search flavor, an import source for bib‑to‑bib linking, and default merge profiles.

Choosing a Background Display

This tab lets you define the background and text colors for the header and the background color for the MARC Editor workspace.

Changing Font Options

This tab lets you choose the font type and size for MARC records.

Choosing Field Options

This tab lets you set text color and font styles for each cataloging field in the MARC record. It also lets you set the colors for errors, Web links, delimiters, and read‑only fields.

Choosing Spacing Options

This tab lets you define label widths, column widths, and spacing between columns in a MARC record.

Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts

This tab lets you modify keyboard shortcuts for commonly performed functions.

Changing Delimiters

This tab lets you choose alternate delimiters for subfields; non-sorting, sorting-only, and embedded ALA characters; and part-lines (UNIMARC standard only).

 


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