Abstract & revision notes

Use Authority Control for Bibliographic Records

Abstract

Control headings to comply with Library of Congress authority records (links headings to authority record for automatic updates in the bibliographic record when master authority record changes) or uncontrol headings to edit. Lists MARC controllable fields/subfields.

Revision history

Last updated: January 2008

Revision History
Date Section title Description of changes
January 2008 1 Control headings in bibliographic records Genre headings tagged 655 with second indicator 0 can be controlled. Added some restrictions on controlling genre headings
  3 MARC controllable fields
  • Added 655/second indicator 0 genre headings to the list of controllable fields and removed from list of uncontrollable fields
  • Added note to table on controllable fields about a limitation of controlling 8XX headings: controlling only the name part of a series name title heading when the title part has no authority record flips 8XX to 7XX
  • Added note to table on uncontrollable fields to explain why series headings cannot be controlled in 4XX

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