PRISM - Displaying Library Holdings

Scope

• Once you have located the record that you want, you may want to locate holdings of it for such purposes as Inter-Library Loan.
• PRISM provides several display holdings terms to select various geographic ranges of record availability.

To Display Holdings

• Display holdings commands bring up a display of three-letter codes for libraries that have the particular record you are currently displaying.
• Format: <display code> <control> <c>

  Range of Display	Format
  At all member libraries	dha <control> <c>
  More holdings in a particular state (PRISM knows which state you are in by your login-in.)	dhs <control> <c>
  In your region (PRISM knows which region you are in by your login-in.)	dhr <control> <c>
  To let PRISM decide on the selection based on the number and distribution of the holdings of the item	dh <control> <c>

To find out what a library code represents:

• Type a colon ( : )than the library code:
  • :<library code> <control> <c>
• The Name-Address Directory (NAD) will be accessed and searched automatically.
  • The letters "ND" will appear in the upper right-hand of the display.
• Example NAD search:
  • :ucb <control> <c>
    • This will bring up a display for the University of California
• To return to the record, type:
  • ret <control> <c>

To Find a Library Code for an Organization

• Type the organization's name in the following manner:
  • :nnnn,nnn,n

  Remember to exclude all corporate stop words.

• Example: Searching for Apple Computer Inc.
  • :apple,com ,
• This produces the following record (actually 5 records are produced, 3 of which are for Apple Computer Inc. ). In the second SubField of the IDENTITY FIELD is where you will find the 3 character Library Code. In this example, it is ADJ.
  
  

  > :NACN: 97333 :Date Created: 19930928 :Date last used: 00000000

  :Date Modified: 19971208 <

  > :ATTN OF: <

  > :TITLE: <

  > :ORGANIZ: Apple Computer Inc $t LIBR <

  > :PO/ST: 4 Infinite Loop $a MS 304-2A <

  > :CITY/ST: $c Cupertino $s CA $p 95014 $n US <

  > :IDENTITY: $n CCupACI $o ADJ $o TQM $z OCL <

  > :COMMUN: 408 $p 974-0011 $f 408-725-8502 <

  > :COMMUN2: <

  > :AFFIL'N: OCLC (INACTIVE) $a OCLC PACIFIC <

  > :POLICIES: $w OCLC/ILL non-supplier. <

  > :FAX POLICY: <

  > :MESSAGE: <

   

Moving in a displayed list

• To view the beginning of the list, type: hom <control> <c>
• To view the end of the list, type: end <control> <c>
• To return to the record, type: bib <control> <c>

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