Draft MARC records

Draft MARC records

Creating draft records

Please use this space to add any use cases you may have for creating a draft MARC bibliographic or authority record in quickMARC.

Use case

Description

Use case

Description

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Cataloger is interrupted

Sometimes a cataloger is interrupted by a colleague in the middle of creating a record and has to leave their workstation. We would like to be able to save the record as a draft (in progress state) where it is not passed through to the OPAC or discovery layer(s) so we can come back to it and continue.

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More research is needed

When creating authority records, additional research is needed to fully identify the person, corporate entity, etc. Being able to save a draft version would allow the creator to come back to the record as many times as needed to flesh out the record.

3

Record needs approval before completion

Some libraries have workflows that require review and approval of records by a more experienced individual.

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Template record

Sometimes a cataloger has a set of original records to create that all have the same base fields for which they’d like to save a template record.

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