[38] in ad-lib
Re: Two questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Celeste )
Fri Feb 24 10:33:57 1995
To: ad-cat@MIT.EDU
Cc: rschmidt@MIT.EDU, rchall@MIT.EDU, steps@MIT.EDU, hkennett@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 95 10:33:38
From: efc@MIT.EDU (Eric Celeste )
Bobby writes...
> It's obvious to me some headings were system supplied and others were
> input by GEAC; then, it appears that the headings were updated (e.g.
> 040=DLC and the leader=Original entry)
Actually, my impression from Matt's training was that _all_ the records in
our authority file are provisional records derived from our bib record
load. None of them have been edited in any systematic way (though a few may
have been touched during the training process).
The really odd part is that Geac, in its infinite wisdom, decided that any
provisional authority record built from an LC bib (DLC in the 040) would
_also_ get DLC in the _authority_ record's 040. This seems pretty
misleading to me, but we did identify other ways of determining that these
were not, in fact, LC records (like no 670, odd fixed fields, etc.).
...Eric
Eric Celeste / MIT Libraries / 14E-210A / 617-253-0633 / efc@mit.edu
