Creating Item Records

Before you can create an item record, a bibliographic record for the title must exist in the database. In addition to the methods covered in this section, you can also create item records automatically in the following ways:

Import bibliographic records and automatically generate item records based on the holdings data in the 852 tag or in a locally-defined tag. See Set import options for item records.
Release a purchase order and create on-order items. See Release a purchase order.
Create an on-the-fly item at checkout - The on-the-fly (OTF) function creates a minimal-level item record so items can be checked out before they are fully cataloged. See Create an on-the-fly item at checkout.
Import bibliographic records for eContent titles and automatically create eContent items - See EContent Item Records.

Note:
You can specify the default shelving scheme to use for all new item records for your organization. See Setting Item Copy and Save Options.