Follett VERSION 6.00 - Manual (Page 324)

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possible that you may legitimately get duplicate LCCNs; in those cases, try to get
a unique ISBN for the record.) Correct standard numbers are important to
support matching against Alliance Plus and when importing records.
Titles Without Copies: Look at this report when ordering materials. If you are
not replacing the copies, you may want to delete the titles. If you keep them, they
show up in OPAC, but there won't be any copies for your patrons. Print this
report before running Global Delete Titles Without Copies to preview the results.
Titles Without Standard Numbers: Without standard numbers, these records
will not match when running an Alliance Plus autorecon, and will not be
enhanced. The MARC import process does not recognize these records either,
and may create duplicates in your database.
Copy List by Status (Missing or Lost) or Inventory List by Call Number or
Title (Missing): Do you have a policy on how long to keep records for lost or
missing copies? You may want to order replacements for the copies on these lists.
If not, you can delete the copy records with Global Delete Lost Copies or Global
Delete Missing Copies.
Weeding Log: Every time you delete a copy, Cataloging adds an entry to this
cumulative log, located in your Exception Reports folder. View this log when
ordering replacement materials, creating budgets, or year-end reports.
Updating bibliographic headings globally
The Global Update Headings feature lets you quickly find and update selected
subfields in your bibliographic records. This lets you improve the consistency of
the author, subject, and series headings in your database, consequently making it
easier for you and your patrons to find items.
For example, when you search on Huckleberry Finn, you notice that most of the
copies are attributed to Mark Twain, but several of the older records in your
collection refer to the author as Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Global Update
Headings lets you update all of these headings at one time rather than editing
each record separately.
1. From the Cataloging main window, choose Edit | Global Update |
Headings. The Global Update Headings dialog appears: