About Selection Lists

Horizon lets you easily keep track of items a vendor might send you electronically (such as MARC bib records on a CD-ROM). You can use a selection list to track those items you are wanting to review or thinking of buying. When you identify an item that you would like, you can keep the information about it in a selection list, or you can create a purchase request from the titles in the selection list. If you decide to buy a selection title or selection list of titles, you can create an order for them. If you do not buy items on a selection list, you can leave the titles on the selection list, make the list inactive, or delete the selection list.

Here is an example of a selection list:

Before you can create a selection list, you must do some setup tasks. (For example, you must add a search to a PAC flavor so your staff can search for the selection lists.)

When you create a selection list, you assign a title’s MARC bib record to the selection list you want. You can create a variety of selection lists. (For example, you may want to set up selection lists of bib records for “Best Sellers,” “December 2000 Titles,” or “Brodart.”) You might also keep a selection list of items that you do not plan to purchase immediately, but would like to consider for purchase in the future.

After you create a selection list with its titles, you can do several other tasks, such as editing the list and the associated bib records, creating a purchase request, and ordering items from a selection list.

This chapter 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.

 


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