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Each library that uses acquisitions in Sierra has a separate account unit that keeps financial information apart from other libraries. Each account unit includes a separate set of order records, vendor records and invoice records. Account units also come with access to reserves room and serials checkin functions in Sierra.
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Added Entry
An entry, additional to the main entry, by which an item is indexed in a catalog. (e.g. name added entry (MARC 7xx), title added entry (245), subject added entry (6xx)).
Analytics, Analytic Record, or Analytic Entry
Bibliographic records that describe part of parts of a larger item, such as a chapter, or single volume of a multi-volume work. Such as if you catalog single volumes of a manga series rather than using a single record for the whole set.
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Computers store characters as a combination of bits. ASCII assigns standard meanings to those combinations so that information can be interchanged. The ASCII character set is very limited. Superseded by Unicode.
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Maintenance of established headings, both within an authority file and within bibliographic files. Basically consists of establishing one standard form of a name or term under which library patrons should search within a catalog. Also It also involves the creation of cross-reference names or terms.
Authority File
A list of authorized headings, documentation, and cross references.Marmot uses an outside vendor to manage our authority control. https://marmot-support.atlassian.net/l/cp/VB1PxFw5
Authority Record
Includes A record, in MARC authority format, that includes the established form of a name or word term that is used as an authorized access point in a library catalog, as well as cross-references from other names or terms. See name authority record, and subject authority record.
Authorized Access Point (AAP)
A Previously called a traced heading. This is a standardized, controlled character string that represents an entity. An entity can be a person, corporate body, title or topic.
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Used in Sierra reserve room functions for academic libraries. When an item is put in the reserve room, it is linked to a course record, which is used to define to special circulation rules for use while the item is on reserve. It also makes the item searchable by the name of the course and professor in classic catalog.
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Cutter Number
Named for Charles Cutter. Usually the second part of a call number. Placed in subfield $b of the call number field. It specifies the exact place in the shelf order where the item is shelved relative to other items. It is based on the bibliographic main entry. In Dewey systems it is usually the first several letters of the main entry. In Library of Congress systems it is constructed with the Cutter Table from the Library of Congress based on the main entry.
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A system for storing data where each field in a record consists of a URI link to an outside source where the data is kept. Such that data fields in many separate records could point to a single outside point, so if the data changes, it can be changed in a single location which will change all the linked records.
Main Entry
The Now called Primary Access Point. This is MARC field beginning with 1. It may be a personal author (100), corporate author (110), meeting author (111), or uniform title (130). There should only be a single one of these in any MARC record. Usually used as the basis of the cutter number.
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A magnetic strip placed in each item for security purposes.
Title Main Entry
When an item has no single creator, either personal (100), corporate (110), or meeting (111), and no uniform title (130), it will use title main entry. This is indicated by a 245 first indicator of zero. This is most common with films which are almost always created by many different people. In this case, the title is the main entry and should be used as the basis for the cutter number.
Title Page
A page at the beginning of the item bearing the title proper and usually, though not necessarily, the statement of responsibility and the data relating to publication.
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