Electronic resources generally do not have any call number or item information associated with them, and Evergreen enables you to easily make bibliographic records visible in the public catalog within sections of the organizational unit hierarchy. For example, you can make a set of bibliographic records visible only to specific branches that have purchased licenses for the corresponding resources, or you can make records representing publicly available electronic resources visible to the entire consortium.

Therefore, to make a record visible in the public catalog, modify the records using your preferred MARC editing approach to ensure the 856 field contains the following information before loading records for electronic resources into Evergreen:

Once your electronic resource bibliographic records have the required indicators and subfields for each 856 field in the record, you can proceed to load the records using either the command-line bulk import method or the MARC Batch Importer in the staff client.