Preparing Horizon to Work with Item Records

Each item that circulates from your library must be represented by information in your library’s database. This information is stored in four kinds of records: bibliographic (bib) records, authority records, item records, and copy records. Each record contains different kinds of information.You set up Horizon so that it can retrieve the necessary information during circulation tasks. You create ITYPEs and ITYPE groups and assign circulatable items to these groups to manage circulation.

Horizon assigns a circulation status to each item record. (For example, an item can have a status of “checked in,” “checked out,” “lost,” or “on order.”) Horizon comes with some item statuses. You can edit these statuses. You can also add, delete, and edit your own item statuses.

Occasionally your library may need to circulate an item that catalogers have not yet entered into your library database. If circulation staff needs to quickly add an item record at the circulation desk, you can specify the fields that circulation staff must include in the added record.

This section explains these topics:

 


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