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INTRODUCTION
The Minaret® classification record display outputs one Library of Congress classification record at a time in a MARC tagged format.  There are navigation buttons along the top of the page to move from record to record and to create, delete and edit records. This last capability depends on the permissions assigned to your account (the name you logged into Minaret with).

To get to an individual classification record, you must start in the Classification Browser or Classification Search page.  Both of these displays have links at the end of each record as a series of letters in parentheses.  For example:

        HD9000-9999        Special industries and trades (H E R B N S T)

By clicking on the letter "R", a new window will open on your screen which will contain the record you have selected.  By clicking on the letter "E", the record will be displayed in a new window, ready for editing.  If your account is not set up with permission to edit classification records, the letter "E" will not be displayed on your screen.

THE DISPLAY
Each record display consists of two sections.  They are, from top to bottom:

Navigation and Command Buttons
Some of the following buttons may not be displayed on your screen.   If not, it means that your login account does not have permission to access that function.

When moving from record to record with the navigation buttons, the order that the records are returned in depends on whether you came to the record display screen from the classification browser or the search screen.  If you came from the browser, the records will be in classification number order.  So moving to the "next" record means moving to the next highest classification number in the database.

If you came to the record display from the search screen, the order of the records will depend on what you had been doing on the search screen.  If you had run a query (by inputting your criteria and clicking on "Search"), the records will not be in any particular order in the record display since query results are not sorted.  More often, you will be inputting a value into one of the data entry fields on the search screen and clicking on the appropriate "Browse" button.  The "Browse" button you click on will select which index you are browsing.  This controls the order the records are displayed in both the search screen and the record display screen.

IMPORTANT
Every record display window you launch from either the classification browser or the search screen is independent of any other classification windows that may also be open.  In addition, although the screen that launches a record display affects the order the records are displayed in, the launching window has no further control over the new window after it has opened.  As a result, each window can have a different sorting order and the sorting order cannot be changed after a record display window is open.
The record display screen supports the following commands:
 
Button Action
|< Returns the first record in index order.
< Returns the previous record in index order.
> Returns the next record in index order.
>| Returns the last record in index order.
Search Displays the classification search screen in a separate window.  From there you can search the classification data by various criteria.
Browser Displays the classification browser in a separate window and jumps to the classification number that is in the 153 field of the current record.
Logout Logs you out of Minaret.
Close Closes the current window.  In cases where the software has opened a new window for you (like when you click on the Search button), you can close the window by clicking on this button.  If the software is not able to close the window because it was opened by hand, the main classification menu is displayed instead.
Home Displays the main classification menu.  This is useful for changing to a different style of classification browser.
Help Displays on-line help in a separate window.

Tagged Classification Record
The first line after the command buttons describes what type of record this is (schedules or tables) and the index key value for this record.  So if you came from the classification browser, the description might be:

    Schedules Record [HD9000-HD9999]

If, on the other hand, you were using the search screen to browse the "Caption" index for the term and clicked on the "R" link on one of the records that was displayed, the description might look like this:

    Schedules Record [Arctic regions (3)]

The index key in this case is "Arctic regions" and there are three records with this value.

Following this information is the actual record data in MARC tagged format.  The first three lines contain the fixed field information and the remaining lines are the variable fields.

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