Greater Southern Tier BOCES School Library System

Mandarin Cheat Sheets

Welcome to the Mandarin Information Page!

On this page you will find the links to handouts that give the answers to the questions we are most commonly asked. If you can't find the answer you are looking for, please feel free to contact:

skane@gstboces.org
mhancock@gstboces.org

Barcode Labels Creating Barcode Labels Creating Magazine Barcode Labels Creating Multiple Barcodes for Patrons with Report Tool Creating Patron Barcode Labels Print Single Patron Label	Cataloging-Deleting and Weeding Deleting Bibliographic or Holding Records Deleting Bookmarks Deleting Patron Records Finding Bibliographic Records with No Holdings Using the Cleanup Utility to Delete Items Weeding Reports
Cataloging- Editing Records Adding a Homeroom Field to Student Records Adding a Teacher Field to Student Records Adding an Internet Access Field to Holdings Adding Location Fields Adding or Changing a Barcode Changing the Status of a Unicode Record Changing Field Mappings Changing the Media Icon Display to Reflect Notated Music Copying a Field How to Copy the 264 Field to the 260 Field Inserting a 591 Field with Subfields Inserting a Field and Subfield Globally Inserting a Subfield Into An Existing Field Globally Inserting Text Into a Field or Subfield Globally Marking an Item as Missing Marking an Item as Damaged Nonfiling Characters- Detection & Replacement Renaming a Subfield Removing A Field or Subfield Globally Using Global Modify (Simple Replace) Using Word and M3	Cataloging- Records Creation Adding Multiple Holdings to a Bibliographic Record at Once Adding Websites to Your Catalog Commonly Used MARC Field Tags Create Holding Record Creating a New Bibliographic Record Creating a Template for Bibliographic Record Creating a Template for Patron Records Creating a Temporary Record Exporting Your Entire Catalog Importing Generating Barcodes Importing Bibliographic Records into M3 Important Fields in Cataloging a New Record Importing MARC Records from Library of Congress Information for Vendor Records Other MARC Tags of Note Using Field Mapping When Importing Bibliographic Records
Cataloging- Searching Checking Prefixes in Cataloging Finding Bilbliographic Records with no Holdings Finding Records Without a Classification Number Finding Records Without a Cutter Hitfile M3 Searching Modifying Which Fields Display on the Cataloging Screen Searching for a Dewey Range Searching for Bibliographic Records with No Barcodes in the 852 Searching for Holding Records with No Barcodes	Circulation Adding an Item from Within Circulation Attaching Messages to an Item or Patron Returning and Item Booking an Item Circ Window Creating a Temporary Record Customizing Your Circulation Sounds Customizing Your Circulation Screen Fines Forgiving a Fine General Schedule Error Inserting the ILL Permission Field in Patron Records Using Circulation Item History Offline Transaction M3 Transaction Barcodes Sheet Overriding the Due Date for a Particular Session or Time Frame Patron History Printing a List of Items Loaned Out to a Specific Patron Removing Messages From an Item or Patron Setting Up the Calendar Wrong Day of the Week in the Calendar
Group Editor Changing the Length of Reserves Creating a Patron Group Creating a Special Reserve Group Creating an Item Group Moving Items in Group Editor	OPAC Changing the Media Icon Customizing the Visual Search on WebOPAC Record Format Displays Using an Icon From the Gallery WebOPAC
Inventory Uploading From the Reader Uploading From the Tricorder Inventory Older Scanners Inventory with New Scanners	Reports BEDScount Rpt. (PLEASE NOTE: This is a Report Tool Report, not a document. You need to download it and open it with Report Tool) Creating an Autodialer Report HH Creating an Autodial Report Editing Report Queries Finding Your Reports in Report Tool Printing a Patron List Printing an Overdue List Printing Patron Barcode Labels Using the Report Tool Printing to a File In Report Tool Report Tool Bibliographies Reports to Use for Collection Development Setting the Default File Paths in Report Tool Using the BibStats Utility
Troubleshooting Troubleshooting for Mandarin Common Error Messages