For catalogers of all levels, beginner to advanced, the Record Editor simplifies the maintenance of records in your library. Use it to add, modify, and delete bibliographic, patron, and holding records.

 

The Record Editor is a fully functional, powerful MARC editor for all record formats. Whether you prefer to edit directly in the MARC 21 Format or in a labeled text display, you are assured that records in your collection are full, valid MARC records that can be exported and shared with other libraries supporting MARC. All MARC 21 elements including leader, fixed and variable fields, indicators, and subfields are stored and available to catalogers.

 

Basic and advanced editors are included. The basic editor displays the MARC field labels as text and offers a limited number of field and subfield choices. This editor is suitable for simple and quick record entry. The advanced editor displays the MARC field labels as numbers and offers every field and subfield choice available.

 

The Record Editor includes pre-configured templates that can be modified to meet local needs, and additional templates can be created. Certain fields are automatically filled in when a template is chosen, making the cataloging process easy. Templates include formats such as book, electronic book, CD-ROM, equipment, DVD, video recording, music CD, and more.

 

 

Bibliographic and patron records can be imported into M5 in MARC, delimited, and fixed-width formats. During import, you can select the records, fields, and subfields to import, specify how fields are displayed, check for duplicate records, generate holding records, and create barcodes. After the import is complete, an import summary is created that includes the duration of the import session, the number of records in the import file, the number of records imported successfully, any duplicate barcodes, and the barcode creation summary.