CAT ADMINISTRATION

Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION

   

 

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The Cat Admin Menu

The Cat Admin menu provides access to features and functions related to administration of cataloging activities for your library.

To access the Cat Admin menu:

1. Click the Staff Dashboard link on any screen in the Search interface.

• The Staff Dashboard screen displays. The Dashboard displays all staff menus available for your user account.

2. The Cat Admin menu provides access to the following options:

• View Download Cart– Lets you view, manage and download the contents of the Download Cart for your user account (see Managing the Download Cart for details).
• Download AGCat Utility - Downloads the optional AGCat Client for use on your local workstation (see About AGCat for details).
• Create New CAT Record - Displays the Create New Cataloging record screen, from which you can launch the AGCat client to allow for creation of a new bibliographic record (see the AGCat Client User Guide for more information).
• MARC Tag Report – Lets you generate reports listing all bibliographic records within a Union database containing a specified term in a selected field (see Generating a MARC Tag Report for details).
• Local Cover Images – Provides the options for managing local cover images (see MANAGING LOCAL COVER IMAGES for details):

  NOTE: Local Cover Images is an optional feature and may not be enabled for all systems.

  • Add Local Cover - Lets you add a local cover image for a specified bibliographic record.
  • Delete Local Cover - Lets you delete a previously uploaded local cover image from a specified bibliographic record.
• Authority Database Connection - Lets you specify the parameters for connection to the desired authority database  (see the Authority Control User Guide for more information).

NOTE: Authority Control is optional and may not be enabled for all systems.

• URL (856) Checker – Lets you validate URLs in MARC tag 856 $u for all records in your library’s A-G database(s) (see Using the URL (856) Checker for details).

NOTE: URL (856) Checker functionality is available to Customer SuperUsers only.

3. Click the Home button to return to the Search interface.

 

 

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