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Bibliographic Services Procedures

This page contains procedures and documents that are used by Bibliographic Services staff and student assistants under the direction of the Systems and Catalog Librarian. System-related procedures and documents that are used by multiple departments are on the Innovative System Administraion page. Complete procedures for Government Documents are on the Government Publications Procedures page.

 

Jump to: Tools / Resources Acquisitions Procedures Authority Work Cataloging Procedures Processing Procedures Record Loading Database Maintenance Miscellaneous Functions

 

Tools/Resources

Innovative System Administration
Bibliographic Record Location Synchronization
URLs in the Catalog

Acquisitions Procedures

Workflow for PromptCat/Yankee Books (Approval and Firm Orders)
GOBI2 Express Selection and Exporting
Procedures for exporting bib records from OCLC to Ladd

Authority Work

Authority Control
Authority Work for Record Sets (Marcive Authorities)
Warnings Cleanup (Marcive Authority Reports)

Cataloging Procedures

Aquabrowser Coding Cheat Sheet
Attaching Holdings to OCLC via Millennium
Bibliographic Record Location Codes
Cataloging/Processing Standing Orders
Marc Fields for Cataloging Remote Electronic Resources
Related URL's
Reporting Errors
Series Call Numbers
Special Collections Call Numbers
Special Collection Locations

Processing Procedures

Adding Microfilm Items to Existing Bibliographic Records
Batesiana Location
Books (Bookstacks, Oversize, and Reference)
CD-ROMS
Check-in Cards
Check-in Record Phrases
Coram B Bookstacks
Creating Item Records
Featured Books
Holding Statements and Item-Level Volume Designation
Linking Multiple Bibliographic Records to One Item Record
M Procedures: Music, Maps, Maine Documents
Printing Labels in Millennium
Printing Rush/Individual Labels
Processing Incoming Government Documents
Special Collections Titles No Longer Classed
Staff Area Location Code

Record Loading Procedures

Loading Records in Millennium Data Exchange

Loading Marcive GPO Records
Loading PromptCat Records (Firm Orders and Approvals)
Loading Serials Solutions Records
Loading Single-title ebrary Records from Yankee
Loading Techpro Records

Collection/Database maintenance

Batch Weeds
Code Maintenance Schedule
Deleting Holdings from OCLC via Millennium
Item Type/Location Maintenance Schedule
Items Needing Bib Services Work (Status g)
Missing Plus Holds Procedure
Offsite Storage
Offsite Storage: Searching the Meyer Database
Searching JSTOR Updates
Storage Location Code
Withdrawing Items from the Catalog
Withdrawing Resource Records from the Catalog

Miscellaneous functions

Catalog Lists--from Millennium to Library Website
Creating Lists of Current Newspapers by Language
Creating the Featured Books List
Creating the List of Circulating DVDs
Creating the List of Circulating Feature Films
Creating the New Books List
Heading Reports in Millennium
Updating the Print/Microfilm Holdings Excel File






Page author: Sharon Saunders
Date: 10/7/2010


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