Information forthcoming
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NOTE: Loads are currently in process. Only some authorities to be migrated have been loaded at this time. |
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REMINDER: No new authority records should be added to Alma. Contact NACO coordinators for more information. |
What was migrated to Alma
Local authorities that:
- Had at least one linked bib record in Aleph
- Were not a record for a series (008/16=a)
- Had at least a 4xx, 5xx, or 67x field in addition to 1xx
- Did not appear on any of the BSLW reports, with the exception of Judaica, whose non-exact match records were loaded to facilitate entry into NACO
- For quantities and categories, see chart at https://harvardwiki.atlassian.net/wiki/x/QYSUAg
Note: in addition, ITS identified some records that did not merit migration.
Characteristics of migrated records
- New 667 field with "LOCAL AUTHORITY MIGRATED FROM ALEPH. NEEDS TO BE ENTERED INTO NACO OR DELETED."
- New 900 field with Aleph HVD system number
- New 999 field with Aleph CAT fields
- New 999 field with "BUCKET: (one of categories below)"
- 1xxl
- 1xxt
- 1xxnotlt
- Mideast
- Judaica
- judaicaBslw1xx4xx
- judaicaBslw4xx1xx
- judaicaBslw4xx4xx
- judaicaBslwnear
Local search indexes
- Through Alma's Advanced Search, you can search standard authority fields, as well as local fields 900 and 999.
Excerpt from notice sent to Collection Development staff from ITS (via hl-its-bibliographers list):
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- The practice of creating local series authority records (SARs) will be discontinued.
- Instead, we will rely on national-level SARs, and we will contribute national-level SARs for series standing orders and series standing orders on approvals.
- All monographs that are published as part of numbered series will include the transcribed form of the series title as designated by the publisher, appearing in the 490 field.
- Catalog records for monographs that are acquired through a series standing order will additionally include a controlled series tracing through the 830 field.
- The absence of a series authority record or absence of an active series standing order signifies ‘Series Record Not Kept’ (SRNK) status.
- The practice of staff routinely pulling monographs out of the Acquisitions workflows to elicit a bibliographer’s series standing order decision will be discontinued.
- Bibliographers should continue to communicate interest in establishing a series standing order or series standing order on approval when identified through scoping materials or other means employed to learn of new and important numbered series.