Hi all, I had reached out to all of you in this forum for help in setting up authority type for Publisher. Later, based on inputs from some of you(thanks Indranil and Heather) we decided not to set up Authority Type. Recently we came across the below article and decided to use auto complete for Place of Publisher and Publisher name - this meets our requirement wonderfully. It helps the librarian to pick from the existing set of entries and reduces scope for error - without setting up authority type!! Thanks Indranil for this wonderful blog article. http://blog.l2c2.co.in/index.php/2017/01/15/adding-autocomplete-support-to-m... On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 3:09 AM Hernandez, Heather <heather_hernandez@nps.gov> wrote:
Hi, Krishna--
Is there a reason that you don't want authority records for publishers to be Corporate Name authority records? We sometimes trace publishers (that is, have a 710 field in a bibliographic record linked to a 110 authority record) and it works very well for us--as well as other corporate names, we've found.
Also, information about the publisher, and the fact that it is a publisher, could be stored in the authority record's 3XX fields--the information at http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ may be helpful.
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