Downloading SCIS into MUSAC

1. Select Catalogue from the menu option

2. Select Item Import/Export.

3. Click on Import MARC File

4. The highlighted box will say create new catalogue entries. Click OK

5. A box will appear saying that your defaults do not specify any accession number and do you want continue

importing – Click Yes.

6. Select SCIS Marc File and click OK.

7. Choose Select Other Location and click OK.

8. Save your results on the desktop, (or on another drive/ folder that works for you). Use the drop-down

menu to find the folder they are saved in. When you have highlighted your results file, click Open.

Highlightyour results-

file

Find desktop here

When you have finished downloading you should either delete the usmarc.dat file so you don’t; download it into MUSAC again by mistake or when you download the next file it will ask you if you want to replace existing file -say yes . This will replace the old data with new.

9. A box will appear telling you how many books/records were imported, click OK.

10. Exit. Then go to update catalogue and open up to find books

See MUSAC cataloging slide show for next steps