Connexion Editing Techniques Mixed bag

1
Connexion Editing Techniques Mixed bag
1030-1130

• printing lists
• spell checker
• manage local files

March 14 Pi day (3.14)
2
Printing Accession Lists

• Printing option in client sort records in the
  preferred order to print entries
• Call numbers based on scheme associated with
  authorization, either online or as defined in
  options for offline cataloging
• Set other controls in Tools ? Options ?

3
Accession list
Entries print in the following format Call
number line break 1xx period 2 blank
spaces 245 period 2 blank spaces 250
period 2 blank spaces 260 periodExample
(OCLC record number 13333420)P40.45.G7 H48
1986Hewitt, Roger. White talk black talk
inter-racial friendship and communication amongst
adolescents. 1st ed. Cambridge New York
Cambridge University Press, 1986.

• You control
• Order that entries print
• One additional tag that prints at the end of
  each entry (e.g. 856)
• Print to an HTML file OR printer
• NOTE HTML file is re-written each time you use it

4
Tools ? Options

• Tools-options-Fonts
• Change size of list display and print
• Change font style
• Tools-Options-Printing
• On Records output to Text file
• Accessions Lists Options
• Output to file (overwritten each time!)
• Additional Tag

5
(No Transcript)
6
Sorted by title
Sorted by control
Sorted by name
7
Online list printing

• Can print 1 record open to accession list format
  Not really functional
• Select a group of records from a list File-Print
  Accesssions list is lit, but only prints a blank
  page
• With records selected off list, choose File-Print
  list
• Choose of all or selected
• Option to send list to a file is controlled
  through printer dialog, not Connexion

8
Relevant documentation

• Cataloging Print Labels and Accessions Lists
• See Basics/Set Options and Customize, "Customize
  printing and display of records, lists, labels,
  and accessions lists" for more on printing to a
  printer or an HTML file and defining a MARC tag
  for accessions lists.
• To set My Status for records you want to print in
  an accessions list (see Cataloging/Save
  Bibliographic Records, "Save bibliographic
  records and Cataloging/Save Bibliographic
  Records, "Search for saved bibliographic
  records").

9
Spell checker

• English only, presently
• If word isnt in dictionary
• Click Ignore to keep this instance of the word as
  is.
• Click Ignore All to keep all instances of the
  word.
• Click Add to add the word to the dictionary
• Delete the word in the text box, and type a
  correction.
• Highlight a suggested word in the Suggestions
  list, and then click Replace to replace this
  instance of the word or click Replace All to
  replace all instances of the word.
• Ignores diacritics and special characters, and
  non-Latin scripts

10
Customize spell checker

• Specifying types of words to skip
• Ignore capitalized words
• Default Cleared checks capitalized words
• Ignore words in uppercase
• Default Cleared checks words in all uppercase
• Ignore words with number
• Default Cleared checks words with numbers (for
  example, Win2000)
• Ignore domain names
• Default Selected ignores domain names (for
  example, www.oclc.org

11
Spell checker, set options

• Adding, editing, or deleting words from the spell
  checker dictionary or importing the content of
  the user dictionary you used formerly with PP or
  CatME. Settings can also be imported
• See Basics/Set Options and Customize, "Customize
  the spell checker

12
Local files

• Save bibliographic and authority records
• Create and store bibliographic and authority
  constant data
• Set actions on records or enter WorldCat or LC
  authority file searches for batch processing

• The client supports four types of local files
• Bibliographic save file DefaultBib.bib.db
• Bibliographic constant data file
  DefaultBibCD.bibcd.db
• Authority save file DefaultAuth.auth.db
• Authority constant data file DefaultAuthCD.authcd
  .db

Create additional separate files of any type for
specific cataloging activities or for individual
staff members
13
Local File Manager

• Define local file paths
• Create multiple local files
• Delete local files
• Set a local file as the default
• Assign a separate authorization and password to a
  local save file
• View the number of records in a selected local
  file by status(es).
• Set options for automatically backing up local
  files.
• View batch processing reports

14
Other settings

• Default authorization for batch processing using
  local save file (required)
• A default general authorization inTools gt
  Options gt AuthorizationsOr
• A default authorization specifically for a local
  file inFile gt Local File Manager
• Define a holding library code and institution
  symbol or MARC organization code for offline
  cataloging Tools gt Options gt General

15
Jane Richard jrichard_at_wils.wisc.edu 608/263-5051