Comment 4 for bug 1447746

I like this idea. There are definitely sources that I don't want to
necessarily overwrite existing sources, especially in acquisitions.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Kathy Lussier <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Here's an idea. How about adding fields to the merge profile that
> control whether this profile should update the bib source and if it
> should update the editor and edit date?
>
> It seems like the most logical place to add this setting. The merge
> profile is what controls which MARC tags are added, replaced, etc. The
> user setting up the merge profile could then make the determination of
> whether the MARC changes are extensive enough to justify updating the
> last-edit and bib source inofrmation.
>
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> Title:
> Do not update bib source on match-only merge
>
> Status in Evergreen:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Evergreen master / 2.8
>
> When bug 957466 was included during 2.8's development, it also added
> that the bib source would be updated during vandelay. Unfortunately,
> this created a workflow issue for our catalogers, where the bib source
> would be updated to whatever was specified during acquisitions loads
> and even if it was a match-only merge where the record didn't actually
> change, the bib source would be altered from whatever it was
> originally to a new one. In our case, this caused complications
> because of our acquisitions workflow where a new source (like "acq
> record") overrode the actual bib source in system (like "oclc").
>
> So, while this is a nice feature to prevent bibs with no source from
> being created, etc. we do not wish to see the source always updated on
> merges. Either avoid updating source on this type of merge, or add
> some sort of setting (global flag? YAOUS?) to control how bib sources
> are updated.
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