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Author fields metadata in Community Zone records

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Authors fields (1XX,7XX) metadata in Alma Community Zone (CZ) bibliographic records arrive from publishers supplied MARC records or KBART. Author fields in bibliographic records are not linked to authority vocabularies, and therefore, in case of update in Library of Congress (other) authority records, the author's name is not being changed in the bibliographic record. 

The reason behind the above Alma policy is that Community Zone records represent bibliographic metadata not only in Latin script (for example Japanese, Arabic, Cyrillic languages ) and changes in authors fields for other language groups would present the author in wrong way.

Community Zone users that would like to update the personal names in the CZ bibliographic record can edit these changes but these changes might get override in case of providers' supply an update for this specific record. Please also note that any change in CZ bibliographic records that will be done will be seen by all Community Zone users and might not be correct/suitable for all of the users (depends in country/language).

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