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Future enhancements to Connexion browser

Changes to controlling headings

  (Expected: 02 2012)

For Edit > Control All Headings: The system

  • Uncontrols incorrectly controlled headings (descriptive name headings and/or subject headings).
  • Automatically checks for an updated version of the heading text and updates the text if needed.
  • Automatically updates a previously fully or partially controlled heading with punctuation-only changes.
  • Automatically re-evaluates some types of partially controlled headings and attempts to fully control them.

Insert from cited record for 8xx fields  (Expected: 02 2012)

Using the Insert from Cited Record command in the Function list for the appropriate field, you can insert series added entry fields 800, 810, 811, and 830 from cited records in addition to inserting linked entry fields 760 to 787. The added entry fields let you relate a volume in a series to the series, for example.

264 field in WorldCat search results  (Expected: 05 2012)

Record descriptions in a brief or truncated list of WorldCat search results include data from the 264 field, if present in the record and if no field 260, 261, or 262 is present. Field 264 contains RDA production, publication, distribution, and manufacture information. 

Classify  (Expected: 05 2012)

Use a new command in the Edit list to automatically supply a Dewey or Library of Congress classification number in a displayed record for a book, DVD, CD, or other material type in a field you specify. The new command uses the FRBR-based Classify Web service to provide a classification number from a WorldCat record with a matching standard number in this order: OCLC number, ISBN, ISSN, UPC, LCCN.

GLIMIR  (Expected: 05 2012)

Set an option to show search results in GLIMIR (Global Library Manifestation Identifier) clusters of WorldCat bibliographic records that have different languages of cataloging for the same work (called “parallel” records). For each cluster, GLIMIR search results show the number of records that your library holds, the total number of holdings, and the total number of records. GLIMIR clusters make it easier to identify and select the exact record you need for cataloging.

RDA workforms  (Expected: 05 2012)

Set an option using General tab > Admin > Preferences to use RDA versions of the existing AACR2 workforms to create records. Set the option separately for bibliographic and/or authority workforms. Existing workforms open by default when you create new records unless you set the RDA workform option(s).