[Wactclc-primo] Confusion about authority control in Primo

[Nina Pitts]

Hmmm…we haven’t looked into this yet, but I tried the author searches you recommended, Dale. We can confirm what you’re seeing. For Mark Twain, I got 494 results, but only 71 for Samuel Clemens. Like you, I had a different result set in each case, and I don’t see a Primo link between the two. When I get a chance, I’ll try the heading enrichment Wade recommended (probably not until next week). Obviously, our instance isn’t working as we’d hoped, either. Thanks for the heads up.

Nina Pitts
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From: Wactclc-primo [mailto:wactclc-primo-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Dale Burke
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2017 1:27 PM
To: WACTCLC Alma Discussion; WACTCLC Primo discussions
Subject: [Wactclc-primo] Confusion about authority control in Primo

Hello again,

We are newly concerned about how authority control, particularly for subjects, actually works, or doesn't work in Primo.

We are setting up local authority records for some local headings.  In doing so we are discovering that any kind of "See" reference or "See Also" reference doesn't seem to do anything in Primo.

Have any of you seen any evidence that the cross-reference structure is or is not working in Primo?

We have tested this using a number of "See" or "See Also" references.  Once example that we have used is the "See" reference of "Big Foot" for the heading of "Sasquatch"  "Sasquatch" is used on records in our Alma catalog, and the heading is authorized when we look at the MARC records.

When we conduct a subject search in Primo for "Big Foot" we get results based on keyword searching of articles or note fields, but we do not get our records that have "Sasquatch" as the authorized heading.  I have looked at a number of other catalogs and I cannot find any evidence of the "See" or "See Also" structure working.

Have any of you tested this concept?  Try doing an author search for Mark Twain and then redoing the author search for Samuel Clemens.  I get very different results with no link from Primo between the two names.

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