Glossary of Unicorn-related terms

• ADUTEXT= Unicorn bibliographic record indexing report. This adds index pointers to authors, titles, subjects, etc. contained in newly added or edited records. This is run in tandem with ADUAUTH, the authority indexing report.
• A NAME="ADUAUTH">ADUAUTH= Unicorn authority record indexing report. This adds index pointers to names and subjects newly added or edited within Unicorn. Runs in tandem with ADUTEXT, the bibliographic indexing report.
• Call record= a holding record defining class number and scheme, volumes and locations
• Copy record= item or circulation (barcode level) record
• Control number= number, sometimes known as "flexkey", which Unicorn uses to enable overlays. May or may not be same as 001 and/or the actual system number for the record. The actual system number can be discovered by allowing an auto barcode or call number to be generated. The number before the hyphen is the actual system number.
• Descriptive information= MARC fixed- and variable-length fields which display below the line labelled TITLE INFORMATION when using EDIT or CREATE ITEM
• Flexkey= Control number used to mask system-supplied underlying control number for overlay purposes.
• Remove= drop or delete a copy, call or title record from the system.

• Title record= base system record which establishes title CONTROL NUMBER and around which call, copy, and descriptive records revolve