Discover procedures for tasks that you may perform (e.g., create, derive, reformat, etc.) as you work with MARC 21 records.
You can create a MARC 21 WorldCat bibliographic record by:
Deriving bibliographic records in MARC 21, which creates a new bibliographic record from an existing record that is similar to the new record you are creating.
Using a material type template, which creates a bibliographic record based on a material type.
Before creating a MARC 21 WorldCat bibliographic record, search WorldCat to make sure that:
No existing bibliographic record matches the item exactly. By verifying that no one has previously added a record for the item, you can prevent duplicate records from being created.
No existing record matches the item closely enough to derive the new record from it.
Discover how to insert diacritics and special characters into bibliographic and local bibliographic data records from the MARC 21 editor in WorldShare Record Manager.
Discover how to save the work that you have done before adding or updating a bibliographic record from the MARC 21 editor in WorldShare Record Manager.
Discover how to request a bibliographic record correction, report a duplicate bibliographic record, and provide feedback on a bibliographic record from the MARC 21 editor in WorldShare Record Manager.