Creating MARC Records

When you create an original bibliographic record, you can save it with a status of provisional or final. Provisional records are not displayed in the public catalog, they are not indexed, and they cannot be linked to final item records. Final records are fully indexed for searching and you can choose to display them in the PAC.

The contents of Polaris bibliographic records are displayed in the MARC Editor view of the Bibliographic Record workform. This view shows the MARC Leader, tag number, indicator, subfield, and data format. You can also preview how the record displays in the public access catalog. To change the record, you can edit it in the MARC Editor view.

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Using Polaris Administration settings, your Polaris Administrator specifies whether call number and price fields are copied from bibliographic records to their linked item records. If the options are set to copy the call number and price data, your Polaris Administrator also defines the order in which specific bib tags are checked for the call number and price data. See Copying Bib Data to Items.

Authority records provide uniformity in the forms of names and some types of titles and subject headings. They also provide a system of cross-references to “instead of” headings (See references), and references to other related “like” headings (See Also references).

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When you save a bibliographic record and there are no matching authority records for a heading, you can automatically create an authority record to match the heading. See List and resolve unlinked headings.