Hello,

Question: Has any libraries out there performed bib-auth linking (with 
Backstage as a vendor ) and encounter the following scenario in their data? Any 
insight into how you approach this situation?

According to Backstage, their system will combine the 1XX and 240 into a 
temporary unified heading for matching against LC. In short, we can have 
situations where we have a Bib that generated an authority record after 
processing, similar to the example bib and auth snippet listed below.

This bib…
=100  0\$aMartial.
=240  10$aEpigrammata.$lEnglish & Latin.$kSelections
Generates this auth…
=100  0\$aMartial.$tEpigrammata.$kSelections.$lEnglish & Latin

From my understanding of authority control and bib-auth linking in Evergreen, 
only a one MARC tag to one MARC tag (and one subfield to one subfield) type of 
linking/control is supported. So, running this bib/auth pair through bib-auth 
linking does not link these two together. I found this situation to be one 
reason why some authority records returned from backstage does not link to any 
bib when looking at some stats after linking.

Thanks again for your help!

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