Tomasz, that is exactly correct. Koha does not refer to an "authority file" similar to what librarians think of when they see that term. (For the non- librarians, a library "authority file" contains things like the "authorized" spelling of an author's name, his/her "authorized" birth and death dates, etc. By refering to such an authority file, records are kept consistent and you avoid having "Smith, Joe" and "Smith, Joseph" records for books by the same author.) Stephen Hedges Nelsonville Public Library
Hi, do I understand correctly that the "authority records" support in Koha is limited to prompting values for a given field, but the bibliographic records do not actually contain references to authority records and hence a change in authority records is not reflected in how the bibliographic record will be presented?
Tomasz
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