[Koha] Fwd: Another authorities issue

[Nicole Engard]

Hi all,

Any ideas about this? Is there a bug reporting that this doesn't work?

Nicole


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Agnes Rivers-Moore <arm at hanover.ca>
Date: Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Subject: Another authorities issue
To: Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com>


Hi Nicole

I remember that the Koha prefs manual mentioned that there should be a
way to build authorities 'on the fly' -

"BiblioAddsAuthorities

Defines if a new biblio will check for existing authority record and
create one on-the-fly if one doesn't exist.

Values:

  * ON = a new biblio will check for existing authority record and
    create one on-the-fly if one doesn't exist."

However I have not been able to get that to work. It seems that as you
found, you can't do anything if the pref is set to ON.

Also we would need to know more about how this is done (as the whole
point of authorities is to avoid similar variations of the same name,
the system should at least prompt the cataloguer with close matches
before creating a new authority automatically).

So, while you are on the trail, please could you ask around and see
whether that is supposed to work, and if so, document how?

Many thanks for all your work on a unified manual. I know this can be
a thankless and unending task, so - we do appreciate it!

Agnes

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Agnes Rivers-Moore
Assistant Librarian
Hanover Public Library