Need help with automated authorities processing

["Judith A. Vaughan-Sterling" <jvaughan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone!

We got automated authorities processing just a couple of weeks ago, and
then loaded release 2000 last Friday. I'm seeing some heading reports
that strike me a a little weird, but don't have enough experience with
the feature to know if this is a release 2000 bug, or is simply the way
I should expect the feautre to work. Please help me figure out if these
problems are something I should report:

1) Nearly matches: In 5 bib records, our (correct) 830 Crime & society
(Boulder, Colo.) was reported as invalid because, when the system read
the authority record, it normalized "&" to "and", drawing the conclusion
that the records were wrong. Does this always happen?

2) Invalid headings: In 2 bib records, the headings "United Nations" and
"United States" were reported as invalid, referring to (in the former
case) the subject authority record "International trusteeships" and (in
the 2nd case) "American Convention on Human Rights 1969." In these
authority records, United Nations or United States appears as subfield a
in a 410 field. I'm not sure why the report is picking this up.

3) Non-unique 4XX: "Judiciary" was reported as a non-unique 4xx (which
in fact it is), but we have no bib records with Judiciary as a subject
heading. Is this a typical report?

Many thanks in advance to you authority gurus out there!

Judy
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Judith A. Vaughan-Sterling
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