[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen 2.2 and Authorities

[Mary Llewellyn]

Hi all,

Today I turned my attention to testing the new Authorities browse 
searching in Evergreen 2.2. I loaded some auth records through 
Vandelay and was able to search them in the browse search. But I'm 
uncertain about linking auth records to bibs; I see how to do it 
manually, but I'm hoping there's a way to have bibs link to auths as 
they are loaded, since it's not humanly possible to link manually 
link all the bibs with their respective auth records. Have I missed 
something, or is this still in development?

What would be nice is if the 1XX, 6xx, 7xx, and 8xx headings in the 
bib record would create placeholder auth records for headings as the 
bibs are loaded, which could be replaced/overlaid later with a load 
of full auth records from a vendor such as Backstage Library Works. 
Otherwise, we'll have a lot of records not retrievable with those 
browse searches because their full auth records aren't in the system 
yet. We'd never be caught up.

Thanks,

Mary


Mary Llewellyn
Database Manager
Bibliomation, Inc.
Middlebury, CT
mllewell at biblio.org