Figure 2. UCMS Bibliographic Record Life Cycle

<p><strong>Records identification process</strong></p> <p>Immediately after the completion of the preliminary activities for those records that change to the &laquo;In union&raquo; state, the matching-records algorithm will be run, which will result in the final records of HLUC (master records and single-entry records). The way the records will be merged depends on the use for which these records (master and/or single records) are intended, as shown in Figure 5. Specifically, there is a different way that the records will be merged in order to be presented through the Online Public Access Catalogue, or for the Interlibrary Loan System and they will be structured differently for display in the Cataloguing Center. The differences are mainly about the way and the degree of the field merging</p>