Course Description: This is the first course in a series of 7 courses required to become Item Entry Certified. Upon successful completion of the Item Entry Series and a signed Sierra Tech Login Approval form from your supervisor (course TS006), you will be Item Entry Certified and receive your named tech login.

This course is designed to show how to match items in-hand to bibliographic or title records in OCLC interfaces and the Sierra database. In this course you will use the Sierra Test Server. Please see the Sierra Test Server Access Instructions in the course files. The training username and password will be emailed to you directly when you enroll in the Matching course.

Membership Level: Fully Participating, Basic Online & Union List library staff

Video: Approximately 35 min.

Course Objective: Learn to identify matching records for your items.

Course tips:

Before starting the course, verify you can log in to the PrairieCat support site to access policies and procedures documentation. Library staff will use their L2 username and password to log in to the PrairieCat support site.

It is recommended to download/review associated files/documents prior to watching video.

This course is self-paced but please use the "Send message" function under "Messages" to contact the course instructor(s) if you have questions or need assistance.

For more help navigating TalentLMS, see the quick guides in the How to Use TalentLMS course.

For the quiz, you are allowed to move back and forth to next/previous questions. You will not be able to view entire quiz at one time but feel free to go back through the quiz to review your answers before submitting.