Thank, Josh. That did the trick. For anyone else looking to allow linking to authority records as well as entering text freely, it is necessary to delete the word READONLY from the script addbiblio.pl. It's not enough to remove it from the template (file ending with tmpl). Another authority related question: So far I've only been using authority control over personal name headings, so I changed the bulkauthimport.pl script to match my auth type code. In my case that was changing "NP" to "PN" and I was able to import and use personal name authority records easily. I thought the same change would work for corporate name authorities, but it continues to want to import it as a personal name (PN) authority record. The workaround I came up with was to modify the script to accept a parameter telling the script what kind of authority you wish to import. This is a bit cumbersome since it does not allow me to batch up both personal name and corporate name authorities to import at the same time. I've looked all over the MARC21 authorities documentation at OCLC and Library of Congress and can't find what portion of the Leader or which fixed field makes an indication whether it's a personal name or corporate name authority record. Is this a UNIMARC thing? It looks like the original categories for the script were intended for use by French speakers. Or am I just missing something about how authorities work in Koha? --Jason On 1/27/07, Joshua M. Ferraro <jmf@liblime.com> wrote:

Hi Jason,

----- Jason Ronallo <jronallo@gmail.com> wrote:

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I'm using authority control of the 100 fields in MARC21. I'm importing records from the Library of Congress. As I do that I'm importing authority records and linking them to records. I now have a piece where there is no authority record for the author in LC authorities. I try to just enter the name as it appears on the title page and Koha does not let me enter anything. Is there no way to enter text on an authority linked field on my own? Will I have to create my own authority record for each of these names? The default behavior is to restrict entries to just authorities records, though you can, of course, edit the template and remove the READONLY statement if you want to be able to add a field without that restriction.

Hope that helps,

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