Authority records and corrections may be made by any member of the Cataloging and Documents Dept., depending on current projects. Staffing constraints and a lack of original cataloging have resulted in a workflow based on type of heading. Personal and corporate names are often filed for later attention. The Cataloging and Authorities Coordinator runs the report monthly, imports authority records for series headings and corporate and conference names, and carries out associated cleanup in the bibliographic database. Support staff handle in a similar fashion the personal names that come out in the report.
Original catalogers attempt to import all needed authority records during the cataloging process.
Biomedical creates local authority records, which are not added to the national authority database via NACO, for some analyzed periodical titles and local authors. The National Library of Medicine updates the MeSH thesaurus annually, and Biomedical staff make associated changes in Acorn bibliographic records manually.