Managing Authority Control

The Authority Control read-only database table displays bibliographic tags and the authority tags to which they are matched during authority control processing. This processing occurs automatically when records are imported or saved.

If you have access to the Polaris ZMARC Z39.50 authority record database (or another remote authority record database), you can set the Remote automatic authority control Cataloging profile to enable remote automatic authority control and specify the server and database to search. When a user saves a bibliographic record, and no matching authority record is found in the local database, the system automatically searches the remote database you specified. If a matching authority record is found in the remote database, the new authority record is saved in the Polaris database and the bibliographic record is linked to it. Before setting up remote automatic authority control using the ZMARC database, you must set up the ZMARC server connection. Contact your Polaris Site Manager for more information about setting up and using Polaris ZMARC.