Remote Automatic Authority Control Defaults Dialog Box

To access the Remote Authority Control dialog box, select the organization in the Polaris Administration Explorer, select Profiles, select the Cataloging tab, and double-click Remote automatic authority control.

Note:
Your library must have a subscription to the Polaris ZMARC or OCLC authority records database to use remote authority control in Polaris. If remote automatic authority control is enabled, when bibliographic records are saved and no matching authority records are found in the Polaris database, the remote database is checked automatically, and the matching authority record is saved to your local database.

Use the Remote Automatic Authority Control Defaults dialog box to:

• Enable automatic authority control for your library using a remote database - Select Enable remote automatic authority control.

• Specify the server to use for automatic authority control - Select the server in the Server box.

• Specify the remote authority database to use for automatic authority control - Select the database in the Database box.

• Specify the amount of time in seconds before the search times out - Type a number in the Search Timeout (seconds) box.

• Save the authority control settings - Click OK to save the automatic authority control settings.