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Welcome to the Babel2 wiki! Babel is an enhanced crosswalk tool developed for BookOps - New York Public Library and Brooklyn Public Library - to take vendor data from a spreadsheet and create MARC21 format bibliographic and order records in the Sierra ILS.

Table of Contents

Babel installation

Main menu

• Main menu functions
• Set up options System and User

Options

• Button option and functions used across the application

Cart

• View, Edit, or remove individual items in the cart
• Change language, vendor, audience, material, PO, order#, bib#, wlo#, and add order notes and comments for the entire cart or individual records in the cart. *Change cart status to In Works or Finalized

Carts

• View, Edit, Copy, or Delete the cart
• Create a MARC file from a finalized cart,
• Create an Order sheet
• Link ID's

Funds

• View, Create, Edit, or Delete Fund codes and names for all users

Grids

• View, Create, Edit, Copy, or Delete distribution grids. System and user specific

Import

• Import vendor spreadsheet to create a cart

Tables

• Create, Edit, or Delete the values used by the application
  ** Audiences - Branches - Languages - Material Types - Users - Shelf Codes - Vendors
• These apply to all users and systems