Setting preferences in Voyager
Cataloging module
From the top menu bar, select Options > Preferences. Settings will vary depending on whether the cataloger works mainly with Vault materials or open stacks materials.
Modern materials
- General tab
- Holding/item default location: DeckB-Open stacks
- Call number hierarchies: Modern-LC
- Bibliographic import/replace profile: Modern
- Authority import/replace profile: LCNAF
- Check boxes for "Delete records from work/import files..." if preferred
- Validation tab
- Cataloging formats: MARC21
- Check box for "Bypass MARC validation"
- Workflow tab
- Boxes for "Automatic truncation for non-keyword searches" and "Check for duplicate item barcodes" should always be checked to ensure correct search results. Other boxes can be checked according to personal preference.
- Item defaults tab
- Item type: Open stacks
- Folders/files tab
- In Templates section, click the box marked with an ellipsis to open the Select Template dialog
- Navigate to C:\Program Files\Voyager8\Catalog\Template [it will probably open straight to the Catalog folder]
- Select the matching templates for Bib, Hldg, Auth respectively
- In Work Files section, click the ellipsis box to open the Select Work File dialog
- Navigate to I:\Connexion\LocalSaveFiles\[your initials] and select your .bib file
- If your .bib file is not there, make sure you are looking in the correct drive and folder, then refer to the Connexion client settings
- In Templates section, click the box marked with an ellipsis to open the Select Template dialog
- Mapping tab
- Local Import: MARC21 MARC-8 (non-Unicode)