In Circulation, Acquisitions, and Reserve Bookroom, library staff members can choose to create short bib records. In Circulation, they can fast-add bib records so that a borrower can check out an item that may not be cataloged for some reason. In Acquisitions, they can create PO lines from which Horizon creates bib records when the purchase order is sent. In Reserve Bookroom, staff can create bib records for titles not housed in the main stacks.
You determine the type of information staff can enter in fast-added records. Information might include title, author, ISBN, and publisher.
Setting up fast-added records includes specifying these things:
• | The bib table column that stores the information you want staff to enter. |
• | How the information is used (as an author, title, and so forth). |
• | The label that displays next to the field on the fast-added record. |
• | One of two marc maps: one for indexing the record if you want borrowers to be able to search for it in PAC; and one for including the record in the database if you do not want borrowers to be able to search for it in PAC. |
When fast-added records are created, if the new records are assigned a MARC map that indexes fast-added items, Horizon stores the information in an indexed tag. This lets borrowers find the item from the type of search the MARC map accesses.
By default, Horizon assigns the user default ownership to fast-added bib records.
To specify bib information in fast-added records
➢ | In these fields, do the following: |
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