There is now a new column in the Manage Authorities search results. Each result row now displays each authority’s thesaurus value with a "Thes: " prefix. In the authority MARC editor interface the thesaurus value corresponds to the "Subject Heading Thesaurus" fixed field (http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ad008.html) labeled “Subj”. For example, a value of "Thes: a" means that the authority is a Library of Congress Subject Heading, and a value of "Thes: k" means the authority is a Canadian Subject Heading.

A Library of Congress list of thesaurus values:

You can now retrieve statistical categories (stat cats) from the MARC record and apply them to the items in Evergreen. When importing or overlaying items through the Vandelay MARC batch import process, edit your Holdings Import Profile to tell Evergreen which subfield contains your stat cat data. That subfield in your MARC records should be formatted like the following:

CATEGORY 1|VALUE 1||CATEGORY 2|VALUE 2

Notice that the pipe character | is used to separate each category from its value, and two pipes separate each pair of category values.

If you are overlaying existing copies which already have stat cats attached to them, the overlay process will keep those values unless the incoming copies contain updated values for matching categories.

The Z39.50 target at z3950.biblios.net/bibliographic has not worked for years, so its service definition is no longer provided in the seed data for new installations of Evergreen.

Users of existing Evergreen systems should consider removing the Z39.50 definition for ‡biblios.net. This can be done from Admin | Server Administration | Z39.50 Servers in the staff client.

Some vocabularies used (or which could be used) for stock record attributes and coded value maps in Evergreen are published on the web using SKOS. The record attributes system can now associate Linked Data URIs with specific attribute values. In particular, seed data supplying URIs for the RDA Content Type, Media Type, and Carrier Type in this release.

This is an experimental, "under-the-hood" feature that will be built upon in subsuquent releases.

The tag tables for the web staff client MARC editor are now stored in the database rather than a separate XML tooltips file as used by the XUL MARC editor. The tag-table service, which is part of the web staff client sprint 2 preview in this release, has the following features:

The initial seed data for the in-database tag table is derived from the current tooltips XML file.

The web staff client now includes additional functionality to support cataloging and item maintenance, including:

Nearly all of the cataloging functionality available in the XUL staff client is now present in the web staff client with the exception of printing spine labels. Nonetheless, the web staff client remains a preview and is not recommended for production use.