Receive monographs without invoicing
Discover how to receive monographs in WorldShare Acquisitions. When you receive a monograph, you can choose whether to add the item to your holdings in WorldCat.
Receive monographs and add holdings to WorldCat
- From the left navigation, click Receive and Invoice.
- Select Monographs from the Processing type drop-down list.
- Select Receive from the Action drop-down list.
- Click View Items.
- Click the Search Text form field and then press <Enter>.
- Find the items you want to receive.
Find a specific item
- Select a search filter from the Search drop-down list.
- Using th Search Text form field, search by barcode, ISBN, ISSN, OCLC number, or title. Search results appear automatically when you stop typing.
Note: Barcode searches are possible only after importing shelf ready data. See Import invoice and shelf-ready data.
- To return to the list of outstanding items, delete all text from the the Search Text form field.
Find all items on an order
- Select Order Number from the Search drop-down list.
- Enter the full Order Number (PO number), including "PO" and dashes (-), in the Search box. Search results appear automatically when you stop typing.
- To return to the list of outstanding items, delete all text from the the Search Text form field.
- You may also narrow your search by one of the filters below.
- Search filters - Table
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To search by |
Use retrieval method |
Search |
Select an index with which to limit your search from the list:
- Keyword
- Title (default)
- Copy Number
- Barcode
- Invoice Number
- ISBN
- ISSN
- Order Item Number
- Order Number
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Content Type |
Select the content type of the item from the list.
- To return to the list of all items, select the blank space in the list.
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Branch |
Select the branch the item is to be delivered to from the list.
- The branch is in the Location column on the order.
- To return to the list of outstanding items, select the blank space in the list.
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Order Status (not available for editing when action is set to Receive) |
Select the degree to which the order has been placed:
- Ordered
- Cancellation requested
- Not cancelled
- Cancelled
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Receipt Status |
Select the degree to which the order has been completed:
- Not received
- Received
- Returned
- Withdrawn
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Purchase Status |
Select the degree to which invoicing has been completed:
- Not invoiced
- Partially invoiced
- Invoiced
- Partially paid
- Paid
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- Fill in call number fields. Follow local practice.
Note: The Classification and Cutter fields will be populated for an order item if there is a valid 050 field in the record.
- Fill in barcode field (use scanner or type barcode). If typing the barcode, the cursor must be in the field when you press <Enter>.
- Result
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- The item moves to the Items processed in this session area at the bottom of the screen.
- The barcode links to the item record.
- The item is now available in WMS Circulation and WorldCat Discovery.
- If the item has a hold or a Requestor, the system displays an alert at the top of the screen by default. Contact OCLC Support or your Implementation Manager to turn off this feature.
- To set cost of item
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The cost field (876 $c of the LHR) is filled in automatically with the price of the item from the order. When the item is received, its cost is assigned according to either:
- Total unit cost (including any service charges, shipping, discounts, or taxes). This is the default for all existing and new libraries.
- Unit cost (excluding any service charges, shipping, discounts, or taxes)
- No cost is assigned
To change how item cost is assigned, contact OCLC Support or your Implementation Manager.
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Next steps:
View the WorldCat record for an order item
You can view the WorldCat bibliographic record for an order item from the following screens:
- Order Item Details screen
- Receive and Invoice - Monographs screen
- Receive and Invoice - Serials screen
This allows you to verify that the record for a received item is correct by:
- Viewing the metadata and, if needed, editing a record before receiving (Record Manager)
- Viewing the patron-facing record (WorldCat Discovery)
To view the WorldCat record for an order item:
- Hover over the information icon (
) next to the order item title.
- The information pop-up window provides the following links:
- View/Edit Metadata - Click to open the full MARC 21 bibliographic record in Record Manager. This link only appears if you have permission to view Metadata.
- View in WorldCat Discovery - Click to open the bibliographic record in your WorldCat Discovery instance.
Receive monographs without adding the items to your holdings
One or more ordered items can be received without adding them to your holdings. To do this you receive the items without entering the Barcode and other holdings details.
- From the left navigation, navigate to one of the following screen:
- Orders > Order Items
- Orders > One Time Items
- Orders > Missing Order Items
- Click Search to view all results.
- On the results list, select one or more items by using the check boxes. The options at the top of the screen become active.
- Click Receive to process the item(s) you ticked.
- The items that will be received are listed
- Any items that cannot be received are shown in a dropdown
- When you click the Receive button:
- The Receipt Status changes to Received.
- You do not have to enter a barcode and the item is not included in your holdings.
- The Copies Received column is incremented by the quantity received.
- To subsequently add the item to your holdings, see Receive monographs and add holdings to WorldCat.
Note: You will need to narrow your search to Received items to find monographs previously marked as Received.