Adding a single handle to the Handle Server

If an item does not have a handle, when you click on the link in Voyager, you will see something like the following screen:

Open up the handle server software by clicking on the icon with the hand:

This will open a JAVA window and then the Administrative Tools for the Handle System:

To make a single handle, click on the button for Create Handle. This will open a Create Handle window.

In the Handle Name: box, type in the name, such as below:

You can then press the ENTER key or click on the Change Authentication button to bring up that window and put in your account information:

When the Checking Authentication... window goes away, you are ready to put in the rest of the handle. At right side of the Create Handle window is a boxed area called Add Handle Data

You will be using the first two buttons. Click on Add Admin and the Input Administrators Info window appears

The window on the right shows a "bare" data set; you will add the data as in the window on the left: Admin ID Handle is always 0.NA/loc.gmd for the Geography and Map Division. Click the OK button to save these settings.

The Handle Data View window now has one line of information:

Next, click on the Add URL button and the Input URL info window will appear:

The image on the right shows the original window and the one on the left shows the changes. Make the Index 1 (one) and put the Inquery search in the URL box. The Inquery format for the G&M data is:

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band([agg]+[filename]))

Or, for example:

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3300+ar001800))

Now the Handle Data View has 2 lines of information:

You are now ready to click the Create Handle button at the upper right of the window. A Creating Handle... window will appear and eventually be replaced by the following:

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Which means you were successful. Now when you click the link in the Voyager record you will connect to the online item: