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How you can bring your catalog up to current standards and make it easier for everybody to find what they are looking for … in about a month! 8/12/2021 MARCIVE, Inc. P.O. Box 47508 San Antonio TX 78265-7508 [email protected] www.marcive.com 800-531-7678 210-646-6161 210-646-0167 FAX #cleancatalog Document name: ABIB Authorities & Bibliographic Database Processing | 1-800-531-7678 • [email protected] • www.marcive.com Page 1 Welcome! Imagine in just a few weeks, everybody will be able to find the treasures that are in your library’s collection, but have been hidden by obsolete terms and inconsistent access. By contacting MARCIVE, you just took the first step toward making your catalog better. CONTENTS AUTHORITY CONTROL FUNDAMENTALS ..................................................................................................... 6 WHAT IS IT? ................................................................................................................................................................ 6 WHY DO YOU NEED IT? ................................................................................................................................................ 6 YOUR ILS OR LSP ALREADY HAS AN AUTHORITY MODULE ............................................................................................ 7 WHAT ABOUT RESOURCE DESCRIPTION AND ACCESS (RDA)? ...................................................................................... 7 STEPS: HOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE AUTHORITY CONTROL OF YOUR CATALOG IN AS LITTLE AS ONE MONTH ............................................................................................................................................................... 8 PRICING: AFFORDABLE AND CLEAR ............................................................................................................ 10 BACKFILE PROCESSING .............................................................................................................................................. 11 ONGOING MAINTENANCE ......................................................................................................................................... 11 PREPARATION: PRELIMINARY PROCESSING OF YOUR BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE ....................... 12 CURRENT MARC STANDARDS ................................................................................................................................... 12 TITLES AND FILING INDICATORS ................................................................................................................. 13 RELATOR TERMS AND NAMES ...................................................................................................................... 13 OBSOLETE FORMS ........................................................................................................................................... 14 AUTHORITY CONTROL: WHAT HAPPENS? ................................................................................................. 15 THE BASIC MATCHING AND REPLACEMENT FUNCTION................................................................................................. 15 Type of access point ........................................................................................................................................... 16 Non-Roman characters ....................................................................................................................................... 17 ACCESS POINTS : NAMES ............................................................................................................................... 17 Personal name standard matching ..................................................................................................................... 17 Personal names: Tighter match option, $c ......................................................................................................... 18 Personal names: Tighter match option, $d ......................................................................................................... 19 Disable use of VIAF file ....................................................................................................................................... 20 Personal names: Fiction option .......................................................................................................................... 20 Personal names: Canadian option ...................................................................................................................... 20 Corporate names ................................................................................................................................................ 20 Conference and meeting names ......................................................................................................................... 21 Uniform titles ...................................................................................................................................................... 21 Series .................................................................................................................................................................. 22 Title series ........................................................................................................................................................... 22 Title series: examination of untraced series. ...................................................................................................... 22 Library of Congress Subject Headings ................................................................................................................. 23 LC Children’s Headings ........................................................................................................................................ 25 Authorities & Bibliographic Database Processing | 1-800-531-7678 • [email protected] • www.marcive.com Page 2 MeSH (National Library of Medicine) ................................................................................................................. 25 Canadian Subject Headings (CSH) ....................................................................................................................... 25 Genre LCGFT ....................................................................................................................................................... 25 Genre GSAFD ...................................................................................................................................................... 26 Sears ................................................................................................................................................................... 26 Thesaurus for Graphic Descriptors (TGM) .......................................................................................................... 26 Controlled Vocabularies for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloging (RBMS). .............................. 26 The Art & Architecture Thesaurus ® (AAT) ......................................................................................................... 26 Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST) ........................................................................................... 27 DEDUPLICATION ............................................................................................................................................. 27 REMOVAL OF DUPLICATE AUTHORITY RECORDS. ......................................................................................................... 27 REMOVAL OF DUPLICATE SUBJECT ACCESS POINTS. ..................................................................................................... 28 RESOURCE DESCRIPTION AND ACCESS CONVERSION SERVICE (RDACS) ........................................... 28 WHAT IS RESOURCE DESCRIPTION AND ACCESS (RDA)? ............................................................................................ 28 How does RDA help the user? ............................................................................................................................ 28 What are hybrid records? ................................................................................................................................... 28 Machine processing vs. manual creation of records under RDA ........................................................................ 29 What is included in RDACS? ................................................................................................................................ 30 Basic RDACS changes .......................................................................................................................................... 31 ACCESS POINT CHANGES ........................................................................................................................................... 32 Tasks ................................................................................................................................................................... 32 Dates ................................................................................................................................................................... 32 Music terms ........................................................................................................................................................ 33 Relator terms .....................................................................................................................................................