Lexile levels

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Lexile levels

• How to Add Lexile Levels
• To Your MARC Records

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Bookmark Lexile page

• Go to the following link and add it to your
  Favorites list.
• Lexile.com website

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Find Titles Needing Lexiling

• In Cataloging, use your Power Search and use
  Fiction BUT NOT Lexile in the fields.
• This gives you a list of fiction titles that need
  a Lexile level.

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Working List

• Your volunteers can search for levels on the
  Lexile website and then note the levels on the
  list.
• You can work straight from your cataloging page
  if you prefer.

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Start Lexiling

• Perform a search by Call Number starting with FIC
  AAA.

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Select a title
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Search for title on website
Speed hint Save time by searching for author with
multiple titles.
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Speed Hint If you are Lexiling new books, you can
scan the ISBN code directly into the search.
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Lexile tips

• If a title search does not produce results, try a
  search using authors name.
• You can use this search to find titles of books
  in particular levels for ordering purposes.
• It is not necessary to capitalize to get results.

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Note the Lexile level
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In Cataloging, click on Edit
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Click on Insert
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Type in 521, then Enter
Or click here
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Enter Lexile level, click on Insert Subfield,
type b, Enter.
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Click on No or hit Enter.
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Type Lexile.
Speed Hint Highlight Lexile. then Copy
(control-C). On future records, paste
(control-V).
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Click on first indicator box and type 8, then
Enter.
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You are done. Click on Savethen Close.
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