[Koha] Authority record updates fail- no matches found.

[Hernandez, Heather]

Hi, Raymund--

I overlay (and thus update) authority records based on the 010 $a all the
time without any problems--the match & authority record overlay works
perfectly.  When the appropriate script(s) run on Friday night, all my
linked fields in bibs are updated, which also works perfectly.  Some of our
authority records are in our system from our initial data load (from an
Athena catalog, loaded to our new Koha catalog by ByWater Solutions), and I
currently export authority records from OCLC using Connexion Client into a
file and then import them into Koha using the stage records for import
tool, since there's not yet a gateway export for authorities.  It works
perfectly no matter the original source of the authority record.

Here's what an 010 field of ours looks like when I save an authority record
from Koha as MARCXML, so you can see an example:
<datafield tag="010" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">n  98048791
</subfield></datafield>

I'm very far from an expert--I am a cataloger!:)--but it doesn't sound like
a bug to me.  It sounds to me like something is going on with your 010
fields from Voyager and that they may need to be standardized.

(We are using the fully open source version of Koha 3.22, hosted and
supported by ByWater Solutions.)

I hope this is helpful!  Best,
heather
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Heather Hernandez
Technical Services Librarian
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center
2 Marina Blvd., Bldg. E, 3rd floor, San Francisco, CA  94123
415-561-7032, heather_hernandez at nps.gov
http://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/museum-collections.htm

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