Dear Amy,
A couple of weeks I reported to the list that I am having trouble linking my bibs and authority records in Koha v. 310001005. I found mention in the listserv archive of the link_bibs_to_authorities.pl utility. [...] So my questions remain: (1) can anyone tell me definitively if there is any way to connect the bibs to authorities? (and if not why does the link_bibs utility exist??) (2) any tips on how to do it?
to connect the bibs to authorities you must to have the id of the authority record in the subfield 9 of every heading in the bibs records. For example: exp of a bib record (MARC21) =100 1\$aFitzgerald, Ron$921 =245 10$aYear book of medicine the connect auth record (MARC21) =001 21 =100 1\$aFitzgerald, Ron$d1889-1953 The script 'link_bibs_to_authorities.pl' use the API C4:Biblio:LinkBibHeadingsToAuthorities retrive the headings in the bib record and try to find them in the authorities with a search. If the result of the serch is 1, it insert the subfield $9 with the id the bib record. If you want a best result, you need to re-implement link_bibs_to_authorities.pl with a better matching algorithm The problems that you report are problems of enviroment. The suggestion to export PERL5LIB, like: sudo KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml PERL5LIB=/usr/share/koha/lib /path/to/<http://link_bibs_to_authorities.pl/>link_bibs_to_authorities.pl (adjusting paths accordingly) is correct but probably not enough. Try to call a Linux expert to watch your linux box (send to him/her those messages). Bye Zeno Tajoli CILEA - Segrate (MI) tajoliAT_SPAM_no_prendiATcilea.it (Indirizzo mascherato anti-spam; sostituisci quanto tra AT con @)