Discussion:
unlinked authority records
Jane DeBellis
2014-10-15 16:48:16 UTC
Permalink
Greetings,

Each week I add our updated authorities and/or new authorities to our catalog on Wednesdays. After I do so I then check our authority file for unlinked authority records. In doing so I end up with two types of authority record that are unlinked.

One type is not linked to anything else in our catalog-no bibliographic records and no see also records. These are easy to deal with...I just delete them from our catalog.

The second type is not linked to bibliographic records but are linked to see also records. They don't seem to do anything one way or the other in the OPAC. I have them in a record set as I ponder what if anything to do with them. Would it be safe to delete these? The number of these records fluctuate maybe by one or two each week, meaning sometimes one will suddenly have a bib to link to, other times I have a handful of these to the record set that are new. We have about 95000 authority records total in our catalog and of those about 2200 meet the criteria for these authority records.

Any thoughts?

Jane DeBellis, Library Coordinator
janed-tbo/Ku9sGx7XzxY/***@public.gmane.org<mailto:janed-tbo/Ku9sGx7XzxY/***@public.gmane.org>
Santa Rosa County Library System, Administration Center
850-981-7323<tel:850-981-7323>
www.santarosa.fl.gov/libraries<http://www.santa-rosa.gov/libraries>


________________________________
Florida has a very broad public records law. Under Florida law, both the content of emails and email addresses are public records. If you do not want the content of your email or your email address released in response to a public records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact this office by phone or in person.

--
***********************************************************************

AUTOCAT quoting guide: http://www.cwu.edu/~dcc/Autocat/copyright.html
E-mail AUTOCAT listowners: autocat-request-JX7+OpRa80SJISurH+***@public.gmane.org
Search AUTOCAT archives: http://listserv.syr.edu/archives/autocat.html
By posting messages to AUTOCAT, the author does not cede copyright

***********************************************************************
Loading...