4.3.1 Field 1 Function:: 60 characters, display only

Purpose: To indicate how this window will be used.

4.3.2 Field 2 Function Keys

4.3.3 Field 3 Find Item: 120 characters, tab stop

Purpose: To specify numbers or words that might identify an item or the MARC bib associated with the item. If the MARC bib is found, all of its associated items are displayed for selection.

Format: Free text, but in conjunction with the search method to be selected in the following field. A bar code may be scanned here to hasten the process.

4.3.4 Field 4 Find Menu: tab stop

Purpose: To specify the appropriate look up that matches the entry made in the textual Find field.

Format: It is a menu selection.

Menu Style: Push Button

Menu Values:
Bar Code
Item #
MARC #
Call #
Title
Author
ISBN/ISSN
Control#
LCCN

Discussion:

Function [Bar Code] will attempt to match the value in the field Find to the index of Bar Code values. The software will also test if the bar code is an acceptable bar code value, e.g., not a patron's bar code. This value cannot be truncated.

Function [Item #] will attempt to match the value in the field Find to the list of Item Numbers. This value cannot be truncated.

Function [MARC #] will attempt to match the value in the field Find to the list of MARC Numbers. This value cannot be truncated.

Function [Call #] will attempt to match the value in the field Find to the index of Call Numbers. This value may be truncated but must be in context, e.g., "WB 115 H323" for all editions of Harrison's Principles of internal medicine.

Function [Title] will attempt to match the value in the field Find to the series authority file. This value may be truncated and out of context, e.g. "new eng med" for the New England Journal of Medicine, but the word fragments must be greater than one Character each.

Function [Author] will attempt to match the value in the field Find to the author authority file. This value may be truncated, e.g., "Ein,Al" for Albert Einstein.

Function [MARC #] will attempt to match the value in the field Find to the list of MARC Numbers. This value cannot be truncated.

Function [ISBN/ISSN] will attempt to match the value in the field Find to the index of ISSN and ISBN Numbers. This value cannot be truncated.

Function [Control#] will attempt to match the value in the field Find to the index of MARC bib tag 003 Control Number Identifier concatenated to tag 001 Control Number. This is commonly called the OCLC number. This value cannot be truncated.

Function [LCCN] will attempt to match the value in the field Find to the index of MARC bib tag 010, Library of Congress Control Number. This value cannot be truncated.

4.3.5 Field 5 Close the window: tab stop

Purpose: this function ends the use of this window.