9.12.1 Field 1 MARC Number: 10 characters, display only

9.12.2 Field 2 Status of Processing: 60 characters, display only

Purpose: To display the message "Working..." while the process is computing.

9.12.3 Field 3 Function Keys

9.12.4 Field 4 Serial Look Up: 80 characters, tab stop

Purpose: To identify a serial by its ISSN, MARC Number, the MARC Control Number (tag 001), bar code, or part of the title. Only titles without monographic holdings (items) may be selected.

Format: This field accepts an appropriate combination of letters and numbers. When searching by words from a title, any number of words may be used. The words do not need to be in order, and can be abbreviated.

The most efficient way to look up a title is to enter an acceptable value (e.g. a reasonable portion of the title or the entire ISSN) and press either the ENTER, TAB, or CURSOR DOWN key. The software will work better using this method than entering a value and clicking on the Look Up push buttons below the Look Up field.

Example: "SCIE AMER" or "amer scie" and pressing ENTER will both find Scientific American if it is in the catalog.

Additional Features: if the look up is part of an edit function, (e.g. [Issue Check In]), and the ISSN is entered but is not in the catalog, then when the look up function [ISSN] is used to attempt find the value and the look up fails, then the ISSN and its associated title may then be dynamically added to the catalog and Serials Management. When created in this fashion, catalog and frequency data may be adopted from the Aggregate Serials Frequency Database. This process is documented elsewhere (see "Getting Started in Serials Management").

Use this powerful feature when you know the title is not in the catalog. In the Journal field enter the ISSN value, then click on function [ISSN] (or press cursor key down until you are focused on function [ISSN] and then press ENTER). The software will either find the title by the ISSN value or ask you if you want to add it to the catalog. You may later import a MARC bib for the title, or edit the MARC bib more thoroughly.

9.12.5 Field 5 Look Up Menu: tab stop

Purpose: To specify a look up function that matches the value in the Serial Look Up text field (located above this collection of push buttons).

Format: It is a push button selection.

Examples: if the Serial Look Up text field has an ISSN value, select function [ISSN]. If the Serial Look Up text field has portions of a title, select function [Title].

Menu Style: Push Button

Menu Values:
Title
MARC#
ISSN
Control#

9.12.6 Field 6 Choice of the Target Device: tab stop

Purpose: To specify the target device for the output. The choices typically are Workstation, Default Printer, Alternate Printer, File, or a named E-mail address.

Menu Style: Push Button

Menu Values:
Workstation
Default Printer
Other Printer
File
E-mail
Quit