Unpack boxes from Baker
Divide into three streams:
LC copy
- Edit Acorn record (refer to LC Copy Editing Procedures)
- Shelflist call no. Cutter Table
- Search authority file for numbered series, verify series decision
- Search series title bib. record, edit holdings information
- Add a 951 field with text lc plus your initials, i.e. lc;ec
- Update holdings
- Place on cataloger review shelf for LC copy
Member copy
- Edit Acorn record (refer to LC Copy Editing Procedures and OCLC doc.)
- Verify call no. or provide one if missing
- Verify subject headings (add, subtract, or revise as needed)
- Update holdings
- Add 952 field with date and initials, i.e. 02292003at
- Place on cataloger review shelf for member copy
SSO’s without barcodes and Acorn records
- Search title in Acorn to verify that it does not already exist in the database
- Search OCLC for cataloging copy
- Use OCLC number to search record in smartport
- Smartport record into Acorn
- Return to Smartport and Click on icon to update holdings in OCLC
- Edit record in Acorn to enter LC or Member copy streams above
- Delete OCLC number in Acorn's control number field, charge to 219164
- Create provisional record for books without OCLC copy,
- Charge to 219164
- Place on backlog shelves
Gift books
- Received by Eileen Crawford
- Divide into above three streams
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Documentation written by Eileen Crawford, Divinity Library Cataloger
Last Updated: February 23, 2004