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Cataloging On a Non-Matching Acquisitions Order Record
(or, Replacing a Record)

If the Acquisitions order record doesn't match the book in hand:

  1. Keep the non-matching bib record open in Voyager Cataloging

  2. Search OCLC for a matching bib record

  3. Export the matching OCLC record

  4. In Voyager Cataloging, ALT - R, P, N (or on the menu, Record, Import, From new file)* to see a list of Import files.

  5. Double-click on Import.bib to open the file. You will see a list of imported OCLC record titles (there may be only the one you just imported).

  6. Scroll through the list and double-click on the title you imported.

  7. Edit your imported bib record.

  8. On the non-matching Acquisitions order record, you must enter an OCLC number in an 035 tag to match the one in the record you imported from OCLC. Click here for instructions.

  9. CTL- B or use the Save to DB button to save the non-matching Acquisitions record, with its new 035 tag, to the database.

  10. Go back to your imported OCLC record and CTL - F or click on Save Plus. You will see a message that one bib record has replaced another. Click OK.

  11. ALT - R, H or use Get Holdings to retrieve the MFHD attached to the record

  12. Edit the 852 subfield $b to indicate the correct location.

  13. CTL - N-N to snarf the call number from the bib record into the MFHD

  14. CTL - B to save the updated MFHD to the database.

  15. ALT - R, T or use New Items button to create an Item Record

  16. Scan in the barcode.

  17. Look at the Location and Item Type boxes on this screen to check that they are correct.

  18. CTL - B to save the Item Record to the database.
*After you have imported one record during a session, you can use ALT - R, P, V to open the Import.bib file directly.

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