Bill,

I delete our blind authorities on our end. I'm not sure what ILS you use but in III, you can go into the headings report and create a list of blind authorities and then use delete records mode to remove them.

When I send BSLW my quarterly file, I send them my recently added bib records (recently being from the last batch 3 months earlier) and they send back updated bibs and authorities based on those records. A few years ago, I did a massive cleanup and sent them my entire database so my quarterly updates are for new records only. There shouldn't be a blind authority in there at all.

Mary

Mary Cohen

Technical Services Dept. Head

Palos Verdes Library District

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Bill Kelm <bkelm@willamette.edu> wrote:

I just have a processing question for libraries that use Backstage. Do you send your authority deletes to them? We are pondering not doing it, after we have learned that by sending them in and letting them know they are deletes they are appropriately marked as deleted on the Backstage end.

However, they do not really delete them on their end, they get a special almost "ghost" like status. So they never get unmarked as deleted should we acquire a bib that needs the heading.

Has anyone else found a way to deal with this problem?

Thanks,
Bill Kelm
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