I don’t have the automated authority control turned on in my Innovative installation. I’ve just downloaded and overlaid the authority records. The Global Update functionality works very well to flip the bibliographic headings – a reasonable compromise between fully automated and a one-by-one approach. I have found that it takes some care with the process, but it is mostly manageable.
Caveats: 1) Do not automatically strip out all O.T. and N.T. – there are instances were these need to be flipped to Old Testament and New Testament. 2) Do not automatically flip all O.T. and N.T. to Old Testament and New Testament – there are instances where the final period (full stop) needs to be retained. 3) Make no assumptions that your ‘Find’ text corresponds to a clean data file – re-execute your search to see what “dirty data” floats to the top and hence requires manual intervention. 4) Regarding searching and downloading: There are instances in the local subject authority file where older records have either been subsumed into name authorities or deleted outright – these too require some manual grooming. John F. Myers, Catalog Librarian Schaffer Library, Union College Schenectady NY 12308 mye...@union.edu<mailto:mye...@union.edu> 518-388-6623 On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Joan Milligan <jmillig...@udayton.edu<mailto:jmillig...@udayton.edu>> wrote: On Friday my colleague loaded the new authority records for all of the New Testament headings. When we looked at our Millennium catalog this morning, all the headings had flipped. However bib records with 730s such as Bible. N.T. Acts. English aren't affected by the new authority records. Can anyone offer advice on what to do about this? Do we need to go in and change these Uniform Titles one by one?
