About this guide

Welcome to the Cataloging Setup Guide. This guide explains the tasks you need to do to configure Horizon so that it handles MARC records in a way that matches your library standards. Once you set up Cataloging, you can use Horizon for tasks such as creating, importing, and exporting records, creating fast-added records, verifying the authority records attached to bibliographic (bib) records, and so forth. You use the tools in the Security Menu to set up which staff members can do various tasks in the MARC Editor, and whether they can view or edit MARC record components. (For more information, see Using Security in Cataloging or the “Security and Preferences” chapter of 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:

Understanding MARC Records
Setting Up or Changing Valid MARC Record Components
Setting Up Browse Link
Setting Up a Merge Profile
Adding a Search to Bib Quick Search
Setting Up Uniform Titles
Working with Linking Tags
Setting Up Batch Item Delete
Setting Up Modulus 10 Item Barcode Verification
Setting Up Import Source Parameters
Setting Up Item Activity Tracking for Imported Records
Setting Up Export Parameters
Viewing the Invalid Audit Log
Specifying Bib Information in Fast-Added Records
Setting Up Bib and Authority Record Statuses
Setting Up Call Numbers
Setting Up Call Numbers
Setting Up Non-MARC Parameters
Understanding Deferred Indexing
Displaying Horizon in a Right-to-Left Layout
Using Security in Cataloging
Setting Up Call Numbers

 


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