I have spoken with John Reese and other folks at Backstage several times about the need to NOT include the authorities where the "only" change is the 2nd indicator or deletion of punctuation in the 1xx field in the Significant Changes reports.  Our staff spends a lot of time reviewing these reports to find the handful of headings that really do need changed in the catalog. 
 
I hope that Backstage is making this fix a high priority.
 
Margaret Kaus
 
 
 
 
 
From: bslwac-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [ mailto:bslwac-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Bob Thomas
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:39 PM
To: Backstage Library Works Authority Contol Listserv
Subject: Re: [BSLWAC] quarterly cleanup tips??
 
Ted,
 
I second Martha's suggestion of getting the III Automated Authority Control module. Your quarterly reports are already is limited to only the authority records represented by a bib heading in your catalog (it would be much, much worse if you were getting a report of all changes made to all authority records). However, if you have the Automated Authority Control module, you don't need to look at changes where the 'old' version is in a 4xx.
 
We have also decided that there are too many changes for us to track changes in non-1xxr fields (4xx, 5xx, 670, etc.). Therefore, I have the reports limited to only cases where the 1xx has changed. Unfortunately, OCLC is running a macro to update obsolete values in 1xx second indicators and unneccessary final periods in the 1xx fields. Since these are changes to the 1xx field, they are included in the report, but there's nothing we need to do for those changes. These macros are likely to continue running until about next spring. (BTW, please add your voice to mine in request BSLW add a routine to ignore changes in the obsolete indicators and in final punctuation -- it would make the reports much easier to deal with).
 
Bob Thomas
Integrated Systems Librarian & Principal Cataloger
Western Washington University Libraries
Bellingham, WA
360-650-7458
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Margaret Kaus
Associate Professor
Original Cataloger
KSU Libraries
509 Hale
Manhattan, KS 66506-1200

785-532-7263
fax: 785-532-7644
mkaus@ksu.edu
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