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About Record Manager Fundamentals

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Find an overview of the interface and features available in WorldShare Record Manager Fundamentals.

 Note: If you are a WMS library or using full WorldShare Record Manager, please see About Record Manager.

Overview

WorldShare Record Manager Fundamentals allows you to create new and enrich existing items in WorldCat with efficient, record-at-a-time metadata management for your physical and electronic materials using a MARC 21 editor and Text View editor.

Within the WorldShare interface, navigate to Metadata > Record Manager Fundamentals.

In this area, you can:

Record Manager SLE interface overview

  1. Search for bibliographic, local holdings, and saved in-progress records.
  2. Work with bibliographic records.
  3. Work with local holdings records.
  4. Work with labels and export bibliographic records.
  5. Work with field strings, text strings, and constant data records.
  6. Set preferences for labels, bibliographic record export, searching, and the record editor.
  7. When reporting an issue with WorldShare Record Manager Fundamentals, click Copy OCLC Support Details to copy the request ID(s) and include them in your email to OCLC Support. This information will allow OCLC to directly trace what happened when we are troubleshooting.
     Note: The copy link will not display until you have performed an action (e.g., search, record export, etc.) in Record Manager Fundamentals.