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Salvete!<br>
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I probably sound like a broken record on this, but eXtensible catalogue has an authorities feature that's terribly relevant to the discussion at hand. The burden of the authorities work falls on the computer, so that in a pretend queue you'd see<br>
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Evanovich, Janet<br>
Evanovich, Janet,<br>
Evanovich, Janet.<br>
Evanovich, Janet, 1943 - (LOC wasn't as nosy as I...)<br>
and mebbe even<br>
Janet Evanovich<br>
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It picks up all of the remotely the same entries and leafpiles them for you so you needn't chase em round. Then, the *cataloguer* gets to decide which entries are indeed the same and can be rewritten. Notice how I didn't say the cataloguer had to rewrite them, I said they needed to select the ones to be rewritten. At the end of the day, the human is double checking, as we ought, and the computer is doing the drudgery, as it ought.<br>
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>Yes, I see...<br>
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>However, as we have punctuation in thousands of records, wouldn't be possible to enable input in <br>
>bibliogr. fields which are defined as containing authorities? In this way, adding a comma wouldn't be a <br>
>problem. <br>
>Would anyone know how to enable this? In fact, input in this fields is not allowed (except <br>
>BiblioAddsAuthorities preference ON, which would create duplicate records).<br>
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>I would also like to ask the question about MergeAuthoritiesOnUpdate Function. Normally, updating <br>
>bibliogr. records with the authority (when MergeAuthoritiesOnUpdate is ON) rewrites all the subfields - <br>
>also for ex. relator terms (700$e in MARC21 - translator ecc.); but some fields (700$e) are not used in <br>
>authorities but in biblios, so updating biblios simply deletes this information. Is there a way how to <br>
>exclude this subfield from copying from authorities to the biblios?<br>
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That's curious. What would happen to a given record were the first 700e entry different from the authority you were working on and the second entry the same or similar? (But yes, I can see how it's meddlesome to have the programme overwrite things that oughtn't be overwritten.)<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Brooke
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