Reconning titles in the book cart – Follett VERSION 6.00 User Manual

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| Book Cart | Add Title from the menu. In the MARC Viewer, click the Add

to Book Cart button.

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By range: To add a group of existing records to the Book Cart, select Tools |

Book Cart | Add to Book Cart. The Add Titles to Book Cart dialog appears:

Click to add

these records to

the Book Cart.

Choose the selection method

and the range of records.
Choose to include all records,

brief only, or full only.

Brief records do not contain tags

between 305 and 899 (unless you

changed the definition in System

Setup; see page 54).

Available only for

Union Catalog Plus

Select the method to search the database: Title, Author, Call Number,

standard number, Subject, Acquisition Date, Title Date Added/Updated,

Barcode, Category, or No Range (all records). Then select the range, or, if you

chose standard number, enter your list of numbers. Choose to include brief,

full, or both types of records.
For Union Catalog Plus: The Category selection method is not available.

Note:

The MARC records added to the Book Cart include all the copy records

attached to a title, even if you choose a copy fieldĊcall number,

acquisition date, barcode, or categoryĊand select just one copy.

The total number of titles in the Book Cart appears in the lower left corner of the

window. Titles remain in the Book Cart until you close Cataloging or manually

remove them, or until automatically removed by the recon or transfer process.

Reconning titles in the Book Cart

Using the Book Cart to recon records provides two advantages over running an

Alliance Plus autorecon: You can select a subset of your collection to process; and

the titles do not need to have any copies attached to them. The Book Cart does

not distinguish between full and brief records; it recons all the titles on its list.
Once you have placed your titles into the Book Cart, open the Book Cart by

clicking the Book Cart button, or by selecting Tools | Book Cart | View from the

menu. To start the recon, click the Recon button and choose the data source

against which you wish to recon. Click Recon to begin.
Once the recon is complete, records that have been replaced or updated are

removed automatically from the Book Cart. Those remaining either have no

standard number or have no matching record in the data source. Double-click the

record or highlight a record and click the Edit button to enhance these records in

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