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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='color:black'>Mary,<o:p></o:p></span></a></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>We have partially implemented authorities – we have a vendor that updates our records and headings and we run scripts to link headings to authority records. However, I have not fully researched all the functionality and have not had a chance to add requests to Launchpad bugs. Also, we rarely manually edit or delete authority records from the AF. Our vendor does this via batch, somehow. I am not directly involved in authorities processing so I don’t know all the magic behind it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>I would expect, if an authority record is manually deleted that has linked bib records, the system warn you, allowing you to halt the deletion. If it does delete, whether it generates an error message or not, it should de-link the bib records so that they are not linked to a deleted AF record.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>I would not expect the system to retain links to a deleted authority record and would consider that a problem. Especially if it prevents a link to a replacement record.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Elaine</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>J. Elaine Hardy<br>PINES & Collaborative Projects Manager<br>Georgia Public Library Service<br>1800 Century Place, Ste 150<br>Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>404.235.7128<br>404.235.7201, fax<br>ehardy@georgialibraries.org<br>www.georgialibraries.org<br>www.georgialibraries.org/pines<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Evergreen-catalogers [mailto:evergreen-catalogers-bounces@list.evergreen-ils.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mary Llewellyn<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 16, 2015 12:43 PM<br><b>To:</b> Evergreen Community Catalogers <evergreen-catalogers@list.evergreen-ils.org><br><b>Subject:</b> [Evergreen-catalogers] Authorities question<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So, I was testing authorities in Sprint 2 of the web client, mostly out of curiosity since we don’t currently use authorities. I came across something I thought was odd and reported it, and it turns out to be outside the scope of the testing since the behavior I observed is the same as it is in the current client. Before I go to Launchpad with a development request/bug fix, I wanted to check with anyone who is currently using authorities in Evergreen.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What I discovered was that, in Manage Authorities, I was able to delete an auth record that was linked to bib records. I didn’t expect that; I assumed it would behave like other records that are linked together, like not deleting bib records with copies attached. Instead, the bib records in the web client were left pointing to an auth record that no longer existed. So since it apparently behaves that way in the current client (according the responses my ticket in Lighthouse got), my question is: should it? I don’t see any bugs entered in Launchpad for it yet. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Since we aren’t using authorities yet, I don’t have a living example to put in a Launchpad ticket. Has anyone else seen this happen in their system, and do they consider it to be a problem?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mary<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mary Llewellyn<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Database Manager<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bibliomation, Inc.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>24 Wooster Ave.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Waterbury, CT 06708<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:mllewell@biblio.org">mllewell@biblio.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>