Ted,

The only thing to do is check what LC says at

http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ad7xx.html

(it’s way too complicated to try to describe separately).

Our Aleph system is set up to ignore these (and if it wasn’t, I would change it to make it ignore them).

HTH. Best wishes,

Alan

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From: bslwac-bounces+a.exelby=uea.ac.uk@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:bslwac-bounces+a.exelby=uea.ac.uk@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Ted Waller
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 5:16 PM
To: Backstage Library Works Authority Contol Listserv
Subject: [BSLWAC] name authorities change?

Hello,

In the latest batch of name authority updates there are a number of records with a change I don't understand.  The new records have a new 700 14 field that is the same as the 100 field. Our III system interprets this 700 as a See also reference.  What is the purpose of this field?

Examples:

n  79141239

100 1   Housman, A. E.|q(Alfred Edward),|d1859-1936

700 1 4 Housman, A. E.|q(Alfred Edward),|d1859-1936

n  50030817

100 1   Hornung, E. W.|q(Ernest William),|d1866-1921

700 1 4 Hornung, E. W.|q(Ernest William),|d1866-1921

n  79117186

100 1   Von Sternberg, Josef,|d1894-1969

700 1 4 Von Sternberg, Josef,|d1894-1969

Ted Waller

Meredith College