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Although we have several technical services teams across Duke University (DUL, Rubenstein, Ford Business Library, Medical Center Library, and Goodson Law Library) administration of the authority service management is done centrally, in the DUL Technical Collections Services Division. Functional owner for the authority services is Rich Murray; Technical owner for the authority service is Jacquie Samples.
History
The Technical Collections Services staff members who create original bibliographic descriptions utilize the Connexion client and control headings there rather than working in our ILS, Aleph. While the Aleph system does have an authority module, Duke’s authority control was outsourced to the company, LTI at least by 2004 when Aleph was implemented.
In 2018, a review of LTI’s service came under scrutiny at Duke due to changes in staffing and retirements. As we began to investigate other authority services, LTI coincidentally announced that they were going out of business in 2019. After a thorough analysis of alternate services, Duke decided to implement MARCIVE’s offering.
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