last updated Thu Mar-19-2009  14:22

• Create a Preliminary record using the Preliminary Cataloging guidelines

• Use the General template or the Fiction template, as appropriate
• If a verifiable series if present, use a 490 1⁄8XX combination to input (remember that the series tracing in the index 8XX may differ substantially from the series statement on the piece itself)
• If an unverifiable series is present, use a 490 1 tag to input. You can ignore the Toolkit error message "490:1 = 1 calls for 8XX field". Catalogers will add the 8XX series statement at point of final cataloging.

• File the record into the database
• BAM the bib record, editing as necessary
• Create MFHD (for single piece or multiple pieces; base the coding on the 300 tag in the bib)
• add 866 tag(s) if appropriate
• Create ITEM(s)
• add volume⁄part designation(s) to Enumeration line, if appropriate
• Count stats as 1 piece under Prelim, do not count added copies or volumes. If multiple locations including HAWN or PACC are involved, count the initial stat under HAWN or PACC, as appropriate.

• Shelve in Prelim IN CATALOGING area