Documentation: Voyager Cataloging

I-Share Policies & Recommendations

Best Practices for Bibliographic Records from Non-OCLC Sources rev. 12.10.2010

Cooperative Cataloging Guidelines for I-Share Databases

ICAT Interim Recommendations for Managing RDA Data in I-Share

I-Share Voyager Item Type Codes

LC Genre/Form Headings and What They Mean for I-Share Libraries NEW 10.13.2011

Recommendations for Cataloging Electronic Resources and Display of Electronic Resources in I-Share Catalogs (CatER TF Final Report)

CatER Mini Reports: E-Books E-Journals Batch Loading

Recommendation on Indexing of and Best Practices for Cataloging Enhanced Contents Notes in the I-Share Environment (posted 5.3.2006)

Recommendations Regarding Series Tracing for I-Share Libraries

Standards for Bibliographic Records in I-Share Databases

Suggested Priorities for Bibliographic, Holding, and Item Record Maintenance:

online version REV. 9.1.2011

PDF version REV. 11.23.2011

Sample Maintenance Chart from ISU

Voyager Cataloging & Bulk Import

I-Share Consortial Tag Tables

Information about these Consortial Tag Tables rev. 8.4.2010

Instructions for manually downloading the updated tag table files from this website rev. 2.1.2010

Instructions for manually editing existing tag tables to include new information

All of the Tag Table files in a zip archive rev. 10.4.2010

Individual Files:
Bmarcfix.cfg rev. July 2010
Bmarc0xx.cfg rev. Sept. 2010
Bmarc1xx.cfg rev. Jan. 2010
Bmarc2xx.cfg rev. July 2010
Bmarc3xx.cfg rev. July 2010
Bmarc4xx.cfg rev. July 2010
Bmarc5xx.cfg rev. July 2010
Bmarc6xx.cfg rev. Feb. 2010
Bmarc7xx.cfg rev. July 2010
Bmarc8xx.cfg rev. Jan. 2010
Bmarc9xx.cfg rev. June 2009
Hmarcfix.cfg rev. Jan. 2010
Hmarc0xx.cfg rev. June 2009
Hmarc3xx.cfg NEW Jan. 2010
Hmarc5xx.cfg rev. June 2009
Hmarc8xx.cfg rev. Sept. 2010
Master.cfg rev. Oct. 2010
Country.cfg rev. June 2009
Lang.cfg rev. July 2010
MARC21 Repertoire.cfg rev. June 2009

Batch Loading Bibliographic Records for Electronic Resources NEW 11.8.2011

Ex Libris Voyager User's Guides

Importing Bibliographic Records from OCLC to Local Voyager Databases

Loading Bibliographic Records for the Springer Medicine eBook Collection 2005-2010 into I-Share Voyager Databases

Collection Summaries and Example Bibliographic Records for the Springer eBook Collections
New Step When Copying Bibliographic Records from the I-Share Universal Catalog into Local Voyager Databases

Record Deletion in I-Share Voyager Databases: An Approach for Library Statistics rev. 11.20.2008

Safe Bibliographic Replacement Routines

Shareable MARC Tag Tables for Voyager

SuDoc Call Number Searching in Voyager

System Administration Part 6: CAT

Tracking Chart for Voyager Cataloging Client Preferences Settings

Voyager Cataloging Reports

Voyager Cataloging Client Session Defaults and Preferences Configuration

Universal Catalog

Duplicate Detection and Quality Hierarchy Settings for the I-Share Universal Catalog REV. 4.7.2011

Policy on the Suppression of Bibliographic Records From the I-Share Universal Catalog

Practicing Safe Cataloging for the Universal Catalog

Suppressing Bibliographic Records from the I-Share Universal Catalog using the "Supress from UC" Function

Universal Catalog Discarded Record Scenarios (UNDER REVISION)

OCLC-related Documents

Backloading Bibliographic Records from I-Share Voyager Databases to OCLC

Deleting Unprefixed 035 Fields in Records Exported from OCLC or Copied from the I-Share Universal Catalog

Effect of OCLC Number Changes in the I-Share Environment rev. 01.31.2007

I-Share and OCLC’s PromptCat Service (UNDER REVISION)

List of I-Share Participating Library OCLC Symbols

OCLC’s Bibliographic Record Notification Service in the I-Share Environment

Using OCLC for Batch Loading Records into I-Share Databases rev 11.18.2010

ICAT Statement on Deletion of 029 Fields in Bibliographic Records

Other Documents

Cataloging Client Keyboard Shortcuts

Cataloging Client Top Tips

Cataloging Tips and Tricks from CARLI Blog Entries

How to access the Voyager training databases

Installing and Configuring Gary Strawn's Software in CARLI/I-Share Libraries

I-Share Shared Macros

Record Relationships in Voyager

Repair or Trade? Improving Catalogs with Fresh Bibliographic Records from OCLC

Tag Table Editing for fields 035 and 014

Understanding and Using MFHDs Workshop materials

Using Macro Express Software with I-Share Voyager Databases

Voyager Cataloging Client Training materials

Voyager Indexes in the I-Share Enviornment

Historical Information for Former ILCSO Libraries:

Correcting the "653 problem"
Describes a legacy data mapping issue related to some 653 fields that should be title fields.

ILCSO’s Manipulation of MARC Coding in Bib Records
Describes many projects from 1983 through the Voyager implementation in 2002

LCS Restructuring Plan Phase 1: Adding LCS Records to FBR
Describes the creation of short MARC bib records in FBR in 1990

LCS Scope Codes

Details Related to ILCSO/DRA Holdings Conversion
Describes the holdings extracted from LCS, FBR, and MILO for load into DRA in 1998

Specification for Extracting ILCSO Holdings for DRA
How holdings were extracted from LCS, FBR, and MILO for load into DRA in 1998

Specification: ILCSO One-time Holdings Conversion
How MFHDs and Items were created during the DRA implementation in 1998

MFHD Record Conversion Issues
How MFHDs were converted from DRA to Voyager in 2002