Re: Authority display question

[Mieko Yamaguchi <m.yamaguchi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This may be a long shot but do you run the scope authority records
function regularly?  It sounds like the branch in your scoped search does
not have any bib with this "author" and therefore INNOPAC suggests the
option to do an inverted name search.   

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, James Rentz wrote:

> As a consortium with 12 libraries, each with it's own scoped setting, we
> have run into a little problem with the displaying of authority cross
> referencing. This appears to happen only with the name authorities When we
> are viewing "All Locations" the authority records act in the normal manner
> and supply the appropriate cross references.
> 
> For example: A search for DK Multimedia supplies a reference to Dorling
> Kindersley Multimedia.
> 
>  However, when we are scoped to a specific branch, the same search acts as
> if it were a regular author search and automatically supplies the inverted
> name suggestion.
> 
> For example: The DK Multimedia search supplies the suggestion to  Change
> search to Interactive, DK.
> 
> Is there something in the authority records (either OCLC or Innovative) that
> might be causing this that we could correct through editing something or
> establishing some new Innovative acode?

Mieko
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