Community Resources User and Administrator Guide

Welcome to Horizon Community Resources. Community Resources lets borrowers access information on community organizations, clubs, and events. It also lets borrowers view information on facts or answers to frequently-asked questions. Borrowers can also search for newspaper articles that they are interested in. These features are grouped into these categories:

Clubs and Organizations
Events Calendar
Fugitive Facts
Newspaper Index
Questions and Answers

The Community Resources User’s and Administrator’s Guide is for all users of the Community Resources database, including system administrators. It explains how to set up and use the Community Resources features. It covers all the steps you need to use Community Resources—from setting up Community Resources and creating the Community Resources records to searching for and viewing the records in Horizon Information Portal and staff search windows.

It also explains how to perform searches to help you keep the clubs and organizations and event information current.

All setup and administration-related topics that are specific to the Community Resources database are covered in this guide, not in the System Administration Guide.

This guide assumes that you know how to use the Table Editor. (For more information, see “Horizon Table Editor” in the “Getting Started” chapter of the System Administration Guide.)

Whenever you make a change to Horizon setup, you should exit Horizon and restart it on any workstation where you want the change to take effect.

This guide contains these major sections:

Getting Started explains the basic information you need to begin using Community Resources, and gives you an overview of this guide.
Setup explains all the tasks your system administrator needs to perform in order to customize the Community Resources database for your system.
Workforms explains how to update and create the templates you use to create Community Resources records.
Clubs and Organizations explains how to create and manage a file of information about clubs and organizations in your community.
Events Calendar explains how to create and manage a file of information about the current events and activities taking place in your community.
Fugitive Facts explains how to store “fugitive” or hard-to-find facts and how to access them when you need the information.
Newspaper Index explains how to create an index of newspaper articles and how to access the articles when you want them.
Questions and Answers explains the question and answer process available in Community Resources.
Other Tasks explains how to perform Date Take Action Browse and Purge Date Browse searches to help you keep your clubs and organizations and event information current.
Authority-Controlled Tags and Subfields shows which tags and subfields are authority-controlled in the Community Resources records.
Searches, Search Indexes, and Search Options shows the default search options for all the Community Resources features with their corresponding search indexes and MARC maps.
MARC Maps shows the default display MARC maps, including biblist and search limiting MARC maps.
Bibliographic Displays shows the defaults used for the biblist displays, bib detail display, and saved bib display.
Workform Default Displays shows the displayed content designators for each of the Community Resources default workforms.
SirsiDynix System to Horizon Mapping shows the corresponding relationship between SirsiDynix system mapping and Horizon mapping of Community Resources information.

 


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