Contributing Records as the Master Owner

To have the Master Owner feature enabled at your Local Server, ask your Central System Administrator to contact Innovative. If your Local Server belongs to more than one INN-Reach System, you must specify for which INN-Reach Central Server(s) you want the Master Owner feature enabled.

By default, INN-Reach determines which bibliographic records are used as master records in the INN-Reach Catalog as it processes incoming bibliographic records contributed from Local Server. However, if your Local Server has the "Master Owner" feature enabled, you can override this ownership assignment process by manually claiming or rescinding ownership of a master bibliographic record contributed by your site.

A site that manually claims ownership of a record is considered the "master owner." The master owner retains ownership of the master bibliographic record even if the INN-Reach Catalog processes another record that would normally replace the master bibliographic record. The master owner owns the master bibliographic record until one of the following events occurs:

Another site manually claims master ownership of the record.
The master owner manually rescinds ownership of the record, and the INN-Reach Catalog subsequently reassigns ownership.
The record merges with another master bibliographic record that is also the subject of master ownership. In this case, the INN-Reach Catalog uses its normal logic to determine which record should be the master bibliographic record.

The Master Owner feature enables you to:

Claim ownership of a master record.

On the INN-Reach Central Server, the system:
- Overlays the existing central bibliographic record with your record.
- Assigns the value '9' to the $o subfield of the LOCAL PAC field that corresponds to your site.
Rescind ownership of a master record.

On the INN-Reach Central Server, the system:
- Assigns the value '1' to the $o subfield of the LOCAL PAC field that corresponds to your site. Your site continues to own the master bibliographic record, but the INN-Reach Catalog can reassign ownership of the master bibliographic record at any time.
- Determines which local bibliographic record associated with the central record should now be assigned ownership and does so. Note that, depending on the conditions of the local bibliographic records are associated with the central bibliographic record, the system might retain your local bibliographic record as the master bibliographic record; however, your record is no longer marked as the master owner and can be overlaid by other incoming local records.