Dear all, I am a librarian with hardly any cataloging experience since library school, and I am now trying to learn how to catalog in Koha 3.0 that we are implementing in our school library. (We are changing from an old follett system). I have some problems, one of my major problems is the authority control for example Personal names. I understand the value, but I can't get it to work? It is there as a default, but I don't understand how to add the authority to search in? And I read some instructions that if no authority record is found, I'm supposed to be able to enter the author name manually, but I can't do that. The 100 9 and 100 a continues to be grey and non-writable. Is there a database to upload for this authority control ? Since our catalog is quite messy to begin with, we already have the problem of names entered differently, but with the smart search in koha I don't find it as problematic as in our old system, so I am thinking of "turning" authority control off. Problem is I don't understand how to do that either. Anyone who can help out? Anna ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Anna Kågedal Kodaikanal International School Seven Roads Junction Kodaikanal 624101 Tamil Nadu, India home phone: +914542247269 cell phone: +919994535493 http://boxofbarfi.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/kislibrarian
I have added an FAQ for this because so many people ask this question. http://koha.org/documentation/faq/why-cant-i-enter-a-value-in-the-100-field Basically you need to turn BiblioAddsAuthorities on. --- Nicole C. Engard Open Source Evangelist, LibLime (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714 nce@liblime.com AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard http://liblime.com http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/ 2009/7/13 Anna Kågedal <anna.kagedal@gmail.com>:
Dear all,
I am a librarian with hardly any cataloging experience since library school, and I am now trying to learn how to catalog in Koha 3.0 that we are implementing in our school library. (We are changing from an old follett system).
I have some problems, one of my major problems is the authority control for example Personal names. I understand the value, but I can't get it to work? It is there as a default, but I don't understand how to add the authority to search in? And I read some instructions that if no authority record is found, I'm supposed to be able to enter the author name manually, but I can't do that. The 100 9 and 100 a continues to be grey and non-writable. Is there a database to upload for this authority control ?
Since our catalog is quite messy to begin with, we already have the problem of names entered differently, but with the smart search in koha I don't find it as problematic as in our old system, so I am thinking of "turning" authority control off. Problem is I don't understand how to do that either.
Anyone who can help out?
Anna
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Anna Kågedal Kodaikanal International School Seven Roads Junction Kodaikanal 624101 Tamil Nadu, India home phone: +914542247269 cell phone: +919994535493 http://boxofbarfi.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/kislibrarian
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