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Enhance your cataloging process with .ALEPH500's Authority Control feature. Easily search and consult the Authority Database, update records, and enrich BIB headings with cross-references and synonyms.
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ALEPH500: Authority Control
The Authority Database • Database of authorized headings - USMARC Authority format • Cross-References and Relationships • Multiple authority databases • The AUT database can be searched an an independent database
AUT-BIB Connections • Consult and copy during cataloging • Enrichment of BIB headings and words indexes with cross-references and multi-lingual synonyms • Update of BIB records • Enrichment of BIB display • Display of linked authority records from a BIB heading
008 and Appropriateness • Is the heading appropriate? • pos.14 - Is the heading appropriate for use as main/added entries? • Pos.15 - Is the heading appropriate for as subject entries? • Pos.16 - Is the heading appropriate for as series entries ? • a (or c) = yes • b = no • e.g. 008 L 821204n|-acannaab-----------|a-aaa-eng--
UPD Field • Should the authority record be used to automatically update bibliographic records? • UPD Y - update bibliographic record • UPD N - don’t update bibliographic record • Absence of UPD is treated as UPD Y.
AUT record 100 $$a Plato 400 $$a Aplaton BIB record 100 $$a Aplaton BIB Headings 100 $$a Aplaton AUT Headings 100 $$a Plato 400 $$a Aplaton ue_08 • The headings of the BIB database is used to seach for a corresponding matching term in the headings file of the authority database
McGill University MGU10 AUThority Database LC Names & Subjects MGU01 BIBliographic Database MGU11 AUThority Database MESH MGU13 AUThority Database Temporary MGU12 AUThority Database NLC Names