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Authority Records and Koha

ByWater Solutions Town Hall

August 24, 2016

What is an Authority Record?

What is an Authority Record?

Authorized forms of: names-personal,corporate,meeting,uniform titles

subjects-topical term, geographic name, genre,chronological terms

How do I get Authority Records?

You can Import them through Tools-Stage Marc Records

You can let Koha create them. (machine generated)

You can create them when cataloging: manually or z3950

import

System Preferences that Affect Authorities

AutoCreateAuthorities: generate/don’t generateBiblioAddsAuthorities must be set to "allow" for this system preference to have any effect

BiblioAddsAuthorities:Allow: When you catalog you do not have to select an existing authority record and you have the option to create a new authority, search for an existing authority or enter free text in the authority driven tag.Don’tAllow: You must select an existing authority record from your system and cannot enter or create a new authority record

dontmerge: do/don’t automatically update attached biblios when editing the authority record.

“Linking” the Authorities to Bibliographic Records

Linking the Authority records to Bibliographic Records can be done at the time of cataloging or in batch by a cron job

(runs nightly/weekly/your choice)

The “Linker” System Preferences

The “Linker” System Preferences

What links to What?

100,600,700,800 ->100 110,610,710,810 ->110 111,611,711,811->111 130,630,730,830->130 648->148 650->150 651->151 655->155

The 440 will link to series authority records

What does the ‘linking’ look like?

=LDR 00360nz a2200133o 4500=001 528667=003 COCAC=005 20160624211546.0=008 160624||\aca||aabn\\\\\\\\\\\|\a|a\\\\\d=040 \\$aCOCAC$cCOCAC=150 \\$aDogmatism.=667 \\$aMachine generated authority record.=670 \\$aWork cat.: (COCAC)10157: The Authoritarian personality,, [1950]=942 \\$aTOPIC_TERM

Basic Authority Record

=001 259539=005 20160624211546.0=245 04$aThe Authoritarian personality=440 \0$aStudies in prejudice.$9528666=490 1\$aThe American Jewish Committee. Social studies series, publication no. 3.=650 \0$aDogmatism.$9528667

Stripped Down Bibliographic Recordlinked to previous authority marc record

Thank You!!