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BACKGROUND
Alma has an Upon migration to Alma, Harvard will be using Alma's automated authority control componentprocess. It will This process attempt to link every access point to an LC authority record. We have done quite a bit of The Alma Resource Management Working Group has done significant testing of this function, feature and found that it works well about 98% of the time. This function feature will be really extremely helpful in keeping our headings up to date. For example, we currently use MARS to inform us when a death date has been added to an author in the LC record. We then have to go into Aleph and correct hundreds of headings either manually, or in small batches. With Alma, if an authority changes, all our corresponding bibliographic headings will automatically change.
The system works through a process where the bib . headings are linked to a corresponding authority record. (It’s like in Similar to OCLC when you control headings.) However, in OCLC a cataloger has to manually control any heading that is unqualified. Whereas That is, a heading with $a but no $b, $c, $d, or $q.
In contrast to OCLC, in Alma the headings, even if they are unqualified, will be automatically linked to an authority record, as long as the heading exactly matches a 1XX or 4XX on a single single authority record. The matching (or controlling in OCLC terms) happens when a record gets saved to the server. Then during the night, the headings get that matched a 4XX in the LC record gets flipped to the 1XX field. Therefore, there is the possibility of headings being incorrectly flipped.
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