Cancelled Authority Records:

Maintenance After MARCIVE Notification Tape Loads

Jenifer K. Marquardt University of Georgia

Outline

• What is a Cancelled Authority Record?

• Step by step maintenance

• Questions at any time!

Cancelled Authority Records

• Most commonly more than one record was created to cover the same person or concept. – Griffith, David Craig, 1951- AND Griffith,

David C.– Associations, institutions, etc. |x

Management AND Institution management– Hypotháeses (Strasbourg, France) AND

Hypotháeses (Editions ARCANES)

An authority record might also be cancelled when more appropriate headings are

developed.• Bristlecone pine used to be a valid

subject heading. It was cancelled in favor of two more specific headings.– Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine– Great Basin bristlecone pine

One record is cancelled and any valuable information is transferred to the remaining

authority record.

• 010 from cancelled record appears in delimiter z (usually)

• Other form of heading used as a cross reference (often)

• 670s (often)

MARCIVE Role• Keeps track of all authority records they

have supplied to your local institution

• If there is a change in any of those authority records they re-supply them in a Notification file so that you can update your database

• Does not attempt to understand what the change is, why it was made, or how it will effect your database

Tape Load of Notification File

• If a cancelled record is found during the load into your GIL database, it is written to the delete file

• The already existing record in your database IS STILL IN YOUR DATABASE!

• Bibliographic records using the cancelled heading ARE STILL IN YOUR DATABASE!

Maintenance Step by Step

• This cleanup requires a bit of research and judgement - not a simple process of merely deleting the cancelled record from your database

Lets look at:

• Name and Subject Headings

• Series Headings

• General Notes

• Print the delete file. Starting with the first heading, begin to work through the list

Name and Subject Headings - Step 1

Step 2

• Search for the heading in GIL. You must search each name heading in the Name, Name/Title, and Subject indexes to retrieve all bibliographic records that use the heading– Staff Name Heading Search– Staff Name/Title Heading Search– Staff Subject Heading Search

Non-Keyword Searching• Direct access to the heading indexes

Step 3 - Option 1

• If the left-hand column shows “Auth/Ref” by the cancelled heading ...

... change the headings in the linked bibliographic records to the “Ref” or “See” form.

When all bib. records are attached to the correct

heading, delete the cancelled authority record.

• Verify against the 010 number from your printout before deleting!

Step 3 - Option 2• If the left-hand column shows “Authorized” by the

cancelled heading, right click on “Authorized.”

Sometimes two identical headings appear. One is the cancelled heading, and the other is the “new” heading.

Verify that the cancelled 010 number on the printout

appears in the delimiter z of the record for the “new”

heading.

If the cancelled 010 does appear, you can simply delete the cancelled record from GIL.

There is no need for bibliographic record cleanup!

• If there are not identical headings either check a nearby record that looks like it could be the “new” heading for the 010 of the cancelled record ...

Step 3 - Option 2 continued

… or search for the valid heading using the Non-

Keyword index “Auth LCCN (010z)” and the 010 from the

cancelled record printout.

Use the valid heading to correct the bibliographic records attached to the

cancelled heading.

Cancelled authority number you used in your search

Use cut and paste

When all bibliographic records are attached to the correct

heading, delete the cancelled authority record

• Remember to verify the 010 number against your printout before deleting!

Sometimes the cancelled LCCN is not included on the “new” authority record. The

670 from the cancelled record, however, is likely there, so

examine the 670s to identify the correct “new” heading.

New Heading not in GIL?

• If we did not already have the “new” authority heading, MARCIVE would not send it to us.

• It is up to us to determine that the heading has been cancelled (actually Voyager does this) and what heading, if any has replaced it.

MARCIVE only lets us know that some undefined update has taken place on an authority

record that they have sent to us some time in the past.

In other words, we receive the “new” heading if and only if two situations are met: 1. MARCIVE has sent us the authority record in the past. 2. That heading has been updated in some way.

So … if the new heading is not in GIL search OCLC using the

cancelled LCCN.

Your search

Cancelled LCCN in delimiter z

Double-check in GIL that the heading you found is not in

your database.

• Then export the record from OCLC

• Import the record into your database

• Correct your bibliographic records

Then delete the cancelled heading from

GIL, remembering to verify the 010 number against your printout

before deleting!

Some headings may simply be cancelled and have no one to one replacement. In such cases, remove the heading

from the effected bibliographic records and delete the

cancelled authority record from your files.

If you look in the LC catalog you may find that LC has

made compensatory changes to the bibliographic records that you might like to make.

• http://lcweb.loc.gov/catalog

151 0 Pingelap Atoll (Micronesia) was cancelled,

so this 651 is no longer valid.

LC has addeda heading forthe people tosubstitute for

the place and so retained the

“Social life andcustoms”

subdivision in the bib. record

Cancelled Series Headings• Appear on the delete file printout

• Use the same procedures described for Name and Subject headings to determine the correct heading.

Search in Non-Keyword by the Staff Title Headings Search or the Staff Name/Title Heading Search depending on the type

of series

Correcting the series headings in the bibliographic record is

more complicated than simply deleting the old heading and

replacing it with the new heading.

Remember that the bibliographic record must show both the series statement - which is descriptive of

what actually appears on the piece - and the series tracing/authorized

access point.

The series statement and tracing may be the same and

combined in one field on a bibliographic record.

Also be alert for possible captioning differences that you

would want to reflect in the series tracing as well.

• For instance, the cancelled authority record may have had vol. in the 642 series numbering example field. The “new” authority record might have v. instead.

General notes

When many bibliographic records need to be corrected,

consider using the global change process. You can

“force” a needed change into the queue.

Be alert for changes in tags and indicators as you make changes to the bibliographic

records.

You might also want to reconsider the suitability of

subdivisions. Are they authorized under the new

heading?

Questions?