User manual

Configuring the Cataloging Module

Identifying Authority Control rules

Here will need to decide which bibliographic fields will be under Authority Control.

The usual name, title, and subject fields are natural choices, but you can consider

other fields too.

Let us add an Authority Control column to our example:

Tag/Subfield

Mandatory?

Authority Control

020: ISBN

082: Call number

1XX: Author fields

Yes

245: Title

Yes

260$a: Place of publication

Yes

260$b: Publisher

Yes

260$c: Date of publication

Yes

300: Physical description

Yes

500: General note

Yes

505: Formatted contents note

6XX: Various subject fields

Yes Yes

7XX: Other authors

Yes

952$a: Home branch

Yes

952$d: Date acquired

Yes

952$p: Barcode

Yes

952$y: Item type

Yes

Identifying fields to control using

authorized values

Some fields such as branch and item type are controlled by default. Other fields that

can be populated by short lists of fixed or infrequently changing values are also good

candidates.

Let us add an authorized values control column to our example:

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