Updated Bibliographic Headings Reports
Authority Control
Your library must use Automatic Authority Control Processing to access this report.
The Updated Bibliographic Headings report lists bibliographic records that were updated as the result of the Automatic Authority Control Processing feature.
Report Contents
The Updated Bibliographic Headings report provides the following information:
| Column Heading | Description |
|---|---|
| # | Row number for report entry. |
| Type | Type of headings report. |
| Entry | The heading and record number from the updated record. For example: Field: b110 1|aUnited States.|bForest Service.|bKamas Ranger District |
| Cat Date | Date the record was cataloged. |
| Function | System function through which heading was entered, for example "mcat" for editing MARC records in Cataloging. For a description of these codes, see Function Codes. |
| Group | If your library uses Statistics, this column displays the statistics group by which the heading was changed. |
| Login | User login of operator who made the change. |
| Entry Date | Date and time the heading was changed. |
To process these report entries, see Processing the Updated Bibliographic Headings Report Entries, below.
Reading the Updated Bibliographic Headings Report Entries
The Entry column provides the following information:
| Field | Data |
|---|---|
| Field | Former Bibliographic heading, for example:
b110 1|aUnited States.|bForest Service.|bKamas Ranger District |
| Indexed as | Index and normalized index entry for SEE FROM heading, for example: united states forest service kamas ranger district |
| Changed to | Updated Bibliographic heading, as stored in the record, for example:
a110 |aKamas Ranger District (Utah) |
| Bibliographic record number | Record number of the updated bibliographic record, for example:
b14212791 |
| Authority record number | Record number of the authority record that provided the valid form (1XX) for the updated heading, for example:
.a10277778 |
Processing the Updated Bibliographic Headings Report Entries
Typically, you need take no action on the results of the Updated Bibliographic Headings report. If you want to check for possible errors, however, you can:
- Double-click the heading entry in the report. A Verify Heading browse list appears, highlighting the reported heading in a list of surrounding headings.
- To view the changed bibliographic record or any other record in this list, select the record heading in the browse list and choose View.
- To edit either the changed bibliographic record or the authority record that was used to update the bibliographic record heading, right-click the highlighted bibliographic record heading and choose one of the following:
- To edit the bibliographic record, choose
File | Edit | bibliographic record <record number> . - To edit the authority record, choose
File | Edit | authority record <record number>
- To edit the bibliographic record, choose
For information on editing records, see Editing Records.