One of the most important things to remember about a modern library, is that the term is now more traditional than accurate. A modern library may contain a wide array of %ITEMS% that bare little resemblance to the traditional concept of a 'book'. A catalogue built in Pergamon reflects this modern interpretation - almost any %ITEM% that may be placed into a collection can be stored within the Pergamon database.

For the sake of understanding therefore, all %ITEMS% that may be stored within the Pergamon database - whether that %ITEM% is a book, video, automobile, or cocker-spaniel puppy - will be referred to in this manual as an '%ITEM%'.

Tell me about:

• Item Management Dialog Layout
• Unique and Core Fields
• The Item list Grouping System
• Bookmarking
• Media Types and Advanced Editors
• Attachments
• HID (Accession) Formats
• Serial Numbers
• Option Indexing
• Dynamic Indexing
• Associations
• Persistant Menu Options

How Do I:

• Creating a new item
• Creating another copy of an existing item
• Editing an existing item
• Removing an existing item
• Editing the advanced fields

How to…

In order to remove an existing Item, locate it in the left-hand list of Items then select it in order to display its details on the right-hand side. Select [Remove Item] from the menu in order to begin the removal process.

Before removal takes place, the Manage Items dialog will validate the removal request. Part of this validation involves checking functional areas of the database to ensure that the record is not currently in use. Once it has been confirmed that this is not the case, the Item is removed from the database.

If the Item is still in use for any reason, removal will be refused.

Once the unique record has been removed from the database, the Manage Items dialog checks the database to see if there are any more unique records utilising the underlying core record. If no other unique records are attached to the core record, it too is removed from the database.

Some Items are created for media types that have advanced editors. In order to edit these additional fields, select the [Advanced Edit] command button in the bottom right of the dialog. The editing page will be temporarily placed into advanced edit mode. In order to return the page to normal, select the same command button that will have changed to display [Simple Edit].

Note however, that the Advanced Editor fields are attached to the Core record. As a result, the [Advanced Edit] button will not be available unless the dialog is in core editing mode.