In this class, participants will learn the criteria that is used to determine if a bibliographic record in the database is a match for an item in hand. We will look at effective search strategies for different formats of material, and the match points that are used when comparing an item to a record. Searching will primarily be done in the SHARE Polaris database.
Instructions and handouts are provided below.
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Prerequisites
- Attendees must have a login for Polaris.
- Prior to attending the class, attendees should watch a short video on searching in Polaris.
- Attendees should review the document An Introduction to Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC)