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Create WorldCat bibliographic records In the left navigation, click Create WorldCat Record. For Type, select Text View. Select a Format for the record you are creating. ... From the Material Type drop-down list, select a material type. ... Click Create. Update the bibliographic record with your institution's information.

Creating Bibliographic Records Open the Metadata Editor (Resources > Cataloging > Open Metadata Editor). Select New > MARC 21 Bibliographic and select the default template for entering a bibliographic record. The Metadata Editor opens this template. Enter the data for your bibliographic record. ... Select the Save icon.

The record includes (not necessarily in this order): 1) a description of the item, 2) main entry and added entries, 3) subject headings, and 4) the classification or call number. (MARC records often contain much additional information.)

Levels of cataloging. CONSER records may be created at three levels: full, core, or minimal. Most records are created at the full or core level; minimal level cataloging is generally used only for resources of little research value, backlogs, etc.

MARC 21 was designed to redefine the original MARC record format for the 21st century and to make it more accessible to the international community. MARC 21 has formats for the following five types of data: Bibliographic Format, Authority Format, Holdings Format, Community Format, and Classification Data Format.

From the Text View editor, click Record. From the Record drop-down menu, select Derive WorldCat Record. The derived record opens with a new WorldCat bibliographic record with the information from the derived WorldCat record prepopulated in the fields. Update the bibliographic record with your institution's information.

On the Copies screen, in the row for the item you want to edit, click View/Edit. On Item Details screen, click Edit Item. On the Edit Item Details screen, edit the fields.

The OCLC Number is a unique number associated with a record in WorldCat. WorldCat is the world's largest network of library holdings.