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Receiving ordered Monographs using FASTCAT

1. Scan ISBN or type in title to “FIND” field in SEARCH section of Acq mode

2. View Marc Tag Record

3. Evaluate for FASTCAT

OCLC records for printed books must correspond to book-in-hand as follows:

Accurate transcription from title page, title page verso, colophon, covers, or other:

 245 A Title
 245 B Subtitle
 245 C Statement of Responsibility (Author)

Accurate imprint information from title page, title page verso, colophon, covers, or other:

260 A Place of publication
260 B Publisher (may contain abbreviations)
260 C Date of Publication

Physical Description:

300 A Extent, pagination

OCLC records for printed books must also include the following:

040 B Language of cataloging - If extant, must contain “eng” ONLY

050 A&B or 090 A&B

A well-formed LC call #, containing both $a (classification) and $b (cutter/date). If well-formed do not evaluate, edit or check either subfield

6XX Subject

At least one subject must be present unless it is a book of literature. Do not evaluate, edit or check any subject entry.

1XX or 7XX Author/editor

If a person is named in 245$C, either a 1XX or 7XX entry must be present in the record. Do not evaluate, do not create addition entries, do not evaluate for main entry.

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