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.
I think we need to give figures and information on which local authority records were migrated to Alma, and which were not.(ICQ)
It would be good to explain that the Judaica records that were migrated are part of a project to bring them into NACO over time. (ICQ)
We should also reiterate the information from MSWG that we do not want folks to create new local authority records. (ICQ)