We spend a great deal of time updating bib headings whenever we load auth records into our III system. There's no way around it. However, when there are 10 or more bibs that require the same change we take a shortcut by creating a list of the bibs and using global search and replace. /Ted Waller Carlyle Campbell Library Meredith College Raleigh, N.C./ Davey ,Paul wrote:

Hi Rebecca and Bob

Thanks, and yes, I do take the point about there needing to be a 4XX in an authority with an old form to force a change in bib headings.

Though just out of interest and as an experiment, I made a manual change yesterday to this LCSH authority:

MARC Leader #####cz 22#####n 4500 y 001 sh 85023499 y 003 DLC y 005 20060817132438.0 y 008 060712i| anannbabn |a ana y 010 sh 85023499 y 040 DLC|cDLC|dDLC y 053 0 HV1596.2|bHV1596.5 g 150 Blind children p 450 Blindness in children|xPatients p 450 |wnne|aChildren, Blind q 550 |wg|aChildren with visual disabilities

and for good measure I suppressed and unsuppressed it at the same time. The change I made was to swap the 150 around with the 2nd 450, so our authority now has Children, Blind as main heading. AACP should have run during the night and I expected all our bib headings (we have six) to have changed - but they haven't. I don't understand why not. We definitely have AACP switched on.

But in a way my fundamental question is -- since so many authorities, names being principal problem, don't have old form in 4XX, what can I do to avoid having to check all the reports from beginning to end and make manual changes? If AACP isn't going to do the job, what use is it to me? And those reports can be pretty massive.

Cheers

Paul

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