About this guide

Welcome to Horizon Cataloging. Cataloging lets you present identifying information about your collection in an electronic database that borrowers can search quickly. It also lets you organize your collection better by allowing you to store certain types of information (such as author names, series, and subjects) in authority records, which keeps the information uniform. Cataloging lets you import and export existing records, edit them, and create and edit new records. It lets you work with records in both MARC and non‑MARC format. If you run Windows NT, 2000, or XP, your computer can handle Unicode characters, and Cataloging lets you display and edit MARC records in Unicode.

This Cataloging Guide is for library cataloging staff. It explains how to use Cataloging to perform cataloging tasks. It is organized into chapters that focus on the type of records that you work with.

This guide contains these major sections:

Getting Started explains the basic information that you need to begin using Cataloging and gives you an overview of this guide.
Customizing the MARC Editor explains how to set up the display parameters for the MARC Editor.
MARC Editing provides an overview of MARC records and includes information on how to add, edit, navigate through, and print records, as well as how you can check errors and undo mistakes. It also discusses Unicode and explains how to enter special characters.
Bibliographic Records explains how to work with new and existing bibliographic (bib) records. It also explains how to link bib records with each other, and how to work with linking tags.
Authority Records explains how to create and work with authority records. It also explains how to create and delete cross-references.
Item and Copy Records explains how to create, edit, move, and print both item and copy records. It also explains how to print spine labels.
Workforms explains how to create, copy, edit, rename, and delete templates (workforms) for MARC records.
Control Records describes control records and explains how to use them.
Importing and Exporting Records explains how to import and export records, including how to use SQL statements for these processes. It also explains the errors Horizon may display during importing, and how to resolve them.
Non‑MARC Editing explains how to create and use both non-MARC records and non-MARC workforms. It also describes how to convert MARC records into non-MARC records, and vice versa.
ALA Hex Sets lists codes for special characters that you cannot enter from the special character list.
SQL Statements contains the table names and columns you can use when creating SQL statements.
Glossary includes definitions of many terms used in this guide.

 


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