You can enter a link tag directly into the record.
To link bib records by adding a link tag
1 | Open the bib record from which you want to create a link. |
2 | Do one of these options: |
• | Click your pointer anywhere in the record. |
• | If you want to position the new tag, click your pointer in the tag just above where you want the new tag to display. |
Note: Your library’s settings for tag sorting may affect your new tag’s final position in the record.
3 | Do one of these options: |
To do this |
Do this |
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Choose a tag from a list |
Horizon opens the Select Tags to Add window.
If you want Horizon to find the tag in the list, begin typing the number of the tag you want. Horizon inserts the tag and some valid subfields on the line below your insertion pointer. |
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Add a blank tag |
Horizon inserts a blank tag just below your insertion pointer. The blank tag displays an underscore three characters wide to designate where you put the tag number and two underscores to designate the tag indicators.
Note: Horizon inserts some valid subfields. (For more information, see Editing Components of a MARC Record and Adding a Link Tag to a Bib Record.) |
4 | Add subfields as needed. (For instructions, see Adding a Subfield to a Tag.) |
Important: In bib-to-bib subfield linking, a link may break when you add a linking subfield to a link tag by inserting the subfield using (<ctrl> /).
To prevent data corruption, do not use the insert subfield function (<ctrl> /) when you add a linking subfield to a link tag. Use the add link function
(<ctrl> u).
5 | Do one of these options: |
6 | Do one of these options: |
If this |
Do this |
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You find the record you want |
Horizon completes the link between the bib records and enters the appropriate information in the tag or subfield from which you started the search. It also adds a reciprocal tag in the second bib record. |
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You do not find the record you want |
You may need to create an appropriate second bib record before you can continue. This task is finished. |
7 | Click OK. |
8 | Save your changes. |
Horizon links the records as soon as you either leave the field or save the record, depending on the type of linking you have chosen and whether you have automatic linking set up.
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