How to move an item record to another bibliographic record

  1. Find the bibliographic record that has the item you want to move. Physical titles search by title or keyword:
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    Physical title search
  2. Click on “Expand all” under the title:
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    Click on expand all
  3. An information tray appears. Click on the link for Items:
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    Click on Items
  4. Select the copie(s) you want to move to another bibliographic record:
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    Select the copy to relink
  5. Click on the link above that says, “Manage Selected” and select Relink to another bib:
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    Manage selected relink to another bib
  6. This workform appears, click in the Select bibliographic record box:
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    select bibliographic record search
  7. Search for the bibliographic record you want to link to:
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    search for the correct bib
  8. In the search results click on the title you want to link to:
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    Click on the title you want to link to
  9. When the bib record already has a holdings record you will select the holdings record you want to link to, and click Select.
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    Select holding record to link to
  10. The item is now linked to the new bib record.

    When the new bib record doesn’t have a holdings record
     
  11. Click “Add new Holdings”
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    Add new holdings
  12. It will pop you into the metadata editor where you can create the holdings record.
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    create holding in metadata editor
  13. Save the new holdings record, and click the Metadata editor icon to pop back to the relink items workform.
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    Hide metadata editor icon
  14. Select the new holdings record, and click the “Select” button.
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    Select new holdings record and click select
  15. If the item is the last one on the old bibliographic record, you must decide what to do with the old record- In general you would want to delete the bibliographic record when it will no longer be used:
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    last item warning
  16. Now the item linked to the new record:
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    The item is now linked to the new bib record