<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/24 Ondrej Mlecka <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:omlecka@gmail.com">omlecka@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br><br>I would like to ask two questions on cataloguing with authorities.<br><br>1. The first one regards the MergeAuthoritiesOnUpdate function. <br>I have a Personal Name Authority (for ex. "Givord, Robert"), and I use it in bibliogr. records in 700 field (always MARC21), once as translator (700$e - relator term - "tr."), once as author of foreword (700$e:"pref.") etc. When I change the name in Authorities (for example because I add a date of the death, or there is a mistake in the name) and I have the MergeAuthoritiesOnUpdate preferrence ON, it deletes all the relator terms in the bibliogr. records. Is there any way how to update bibliogr. records without deleting the contents of all the 700$e subfields?<br>
Obviously, I could have a special authority for Robert Givord as translator, another one for R.G. as author of the foreword etc., but this doesn't seem to me to be a good solution.<br><br>2. The second question regards cataloging bibl. records. I want to catalogue a book with a name of a translator. So I choose the name from authorities and I want to add 700$e subfield. For this, I need to add a comma at the end of previous subfield, so as to have, for ex. 700 1# $aGivord, Robert[comma]$etr. But the MARC editor doesn't allow any change in 700$a subfield.<br>
I could turn the <b style="font-weight: normal;">BiblioAddsAuthorities preference ON</b>, so as to allow the input in 700$a field, but this would create automatically one authority for the person as a translator, another one as an author of a foreword etc.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>For #2, I'm not a cataloger, but I think you should add as little punctuation as possible. If the display of the subfields together is unattractive, then that is a display problem, not something to fix by changing data that was correct before, just to help it look nicer up next to a separate subfield. Also, I think <b style="font-weight: normal;">BiblioAddsAuthorities would add a duplicate entry, with the new one having a comma. That seems pretty clearly to be the wrong approach.<br>
</b></div></div><br>-- <br>Joe Atzberger<br>LibLime - Open Source Library Solutions<br>