Overview of Cataloging Tasks

When you catalog an item in your library, you record data about the item such as its name, the kind of information the item contains, and the call number that indicates the location of the item on your shelves. Borrowers look at this data when they search your catalog to decide which items in your library will be most helpful to them. Horizon Cataloging includes many tasks that can help with your cataloging workflow. It also includes the ability to change the appearance of your Cataloging workspace, and the way you work in the MARC Editor.

For example, you can set up options in the MARC Editor that determine things such as how you link records, how you import or merge records, and how your MARC records display in the MARC Editor. You can also set up keyboard shortcuts for the MARC Editor functions you use most often. You can change these options at any time.

In general, cataloging work in Horizon consists of these kinds of tasks:

Working with MARC records. MARC records hold the information that lets your borrowers find items in your library when they search your catalog. You can create, import, export, and print bibliographic, authority, item, and copy MARC records in Horizon.
Working with non-MARC records. If you prefer, you can use non-MARC records instead of MARC records. However, non-MARC records have some limitations that MARC records do not.
Maintaining your collection. You can use Horizon to help plan the growth of your library collection by creating selection lists. You can keep your catalog current by editing, merging, linking, and deleting records. You can create See and See Also references and Uniform Title entries for the catalog to help your borrowers find related items. You can also create holdings summaries for the serials to which your library subscribes.

In addition to giving you rights to access features in Cataloging, your system administrator may need to set up some features before you can use them. (For example, before you can merge records, your system administrator must set up merge profiles.) (For instructions, see “Setting Up a Merge Profile” in the Cataloging Setup Guide.)

 


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