In Horizon, you can design an authority record that combines a specific title and its author information into one searchable unit. A borrower can then locate the item as a single “hit” during a PAC search.
For example, if you searched for Karl Shapiro’s Selected Poems and conducted a Title Alphabetical search on “selected poems,” Horizon would display several hits from various authors. However, if you conducted a uniform title search on “selected poems,” you could see both “Selected Poems” and “Selected Poems‑‑Shapiro, Karl.” You would know that the latter is the entry you are looking for. (The way the entry displays depends on how your indexes are configured.)
To allow searches in PAC and staff searching for uniform titles that you create, your system administrator needs to define search indexes to read the a and t subfields (and any others desired) of the 100 combined authority tag. (For instructions, see the “Searching Setup” chapter of the System Administration Guide.) Your system administrator also needs to set up uniform title parameters. (For instructions, see “Setting Up Uniform Titles” in the
To make a uniform title, Horizon creates a new authority record. One authority record already exists for the author tag. Horizon creates a separate authority record that contains information from the bib record’s uniform title tag (MARC 21 tag 240 or 243) and the author tag (100, 110, or 111). This information is compounded into one new 100 tag on the new authority record. Horizon maps the two bib record tags (title tag and author tag) to the new authority record.
A combined authority tag is made up of subfields from these tags:
• | The co‑tag. The co‑tag provides the author portion of the uniform title. |
This illustration shows how two bib record tags make up one uniform title authority record. Note that the co‑tag (the author portion) from the bib record is linked to two separate authority records:
This section explains these topics:
• | Creating a Combined Authority Record |
• | Editing a Combined Authority Record |
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