Setting Up Bib Tag Preservation

Catalogers can replace or overlay existing MARC records with incoming MARC records if the incoming record matches the existing record on specified match points. To preserve local information in the record being replaced, you can designate that Horizon preserve certain tags and store them in the incoming record. You can preserve one bib tag and one authority tag. (For more information on preserving authority tags, see Setting Up Authority Tag and Field Preservation.)

To set up bib tag preservation

View: bib_import_control

In these fields, do the following:

Field

Action

Tag

Enter the number of the tag that you want to preserve.

Subfield

If you want to, enter the letter or number of a subfield in the tag whose information you want to preserve.

Also enter a value in the Value field.

Value

If you entered a subfield, enter a value for the subfield.

Leave this field blank or use an asterisk ( * ) as a wildcard to have Horizon find any record that includes the subfield.

Use an exclamation point with an asterisk ( !* ) to find any record that does not include the subfield.

Keep Tag on Import Overlay

If you want to keep the tag that you are setting up as it displays in an existing record instead of using the tag from a matching incoming record, mark this field.

Log Bib if Overlay Involves this Tag

If you want to send a message to the Error Log that an existing record containing the tag you are setting up was overlaid by an incoming record, mark this field.

 


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