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Monday Minutes: Authority Updates
by Kelly McElligott on Aug 5, 2024
In this week's Monday Minutes, Kelly and Jessie talk about some new authority updates coming in the next Koha release to ByWater partners.
Adding MARC fields to authority search
A new system preference, AdditionalFieldsInZ3950AuthSearch, gives libraries to ability to add more fields to the z39.50 authority search. This is similar to the system preference, AdditionalFieldsInZ3950ResultSearch, which allows libraries to add more MARC fields in the bibliographic search using z39.50.
Within this system preference, libraries can add a MARC field and subfield to display when a search is performed and the results of that search will include this additional field.
Authority Notes Pop-Up
In the authority search, 6xx Notes will now be clickable and a pop-up window will display all the notes found in the authority record.
1. Searching in the Authority Module
2. From the results, there is a Note link that once clicked will reveal the 6xx notes.
Preview of Authority Record in MARC View
Koha now has a link from within the authority record to show a MARC preview.
More Upgrade Resources
ByWater conducted two Upgrade Webinars recently, here is a link to the recording if you missed the live event!
Here is the agenda from the webinar.
Upgrade Notes
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