[Evergreen-catalogers] Are these authority bugs affecting you?

[Yamil Suarez]

On May 11, 2012, at 11:20 AM, Hardy, Elaine wrote:

> Yamil,
>
> PINES is in the process of re-instating our authorities processing
> contract and thus is in the process of testing authorities in  
> Evergreen. I
> will pass this along to our cataloging coordinator and ask her to  
> join the
> list (if she hasn't already) to discuss these. We have had a problem
> trying to batch load some of our authorities. And the others should  
> impact
> us as well.
>
> Elaine
>

Thank you very much for letting me know about PINES' plans.

I am going to start informally keeping track of those libraries that  
are either currently using or testing authorities in EG so we can  
better collaborate each other from now on. So others reading this list  
feel free to contact me off list to let me know if you want to be  
added to my informal list of libraries working or gearing up to work  
with authorities.

Also, let me clarify that there are at least three separate ways to  
import authority records in EG that I am aware of.

1) Within the staff client "MARC batch import/export" section, also  
informally called Vandelay (GUI), which is what is currently not  
working.

2) The older EG command line "bulk" import tools such as "marc2bre.pl"

3) The newer ESI created command line import tools

I only found a bug in the Vandelay GUI version and I still need to  
verify that the other two non-GUI authority import methods still work  
in EG 2.2 beta2, but I have no assumptions that these two methods  
would be broken.


Thanks again,
Yamil