We spend a great deal of time updating bib headings whenever we load auth records into our III system.  There's no way around it.  However, when there are 10 or more bibs that require the same change we take a shortcut by creating a list of the bibs and using global search and replace.
Ted Waller
Carlyle Campbell Library
Meredith College
Raleigh, N.C.


Davey ,Paul wrote: 
Hi Rebecca and Bob

Thanks, and yes, I do take the point about there needing to be a 4XX in
an authority with an old form to force a change in bib headings.

Though just out of interest and as an experiment, I made a manual change
yesterday to this LCSH authority:

MARC Leader	#####cz   22#####n  4500
y	001	 	 	sh 85023499
y	003	 	 	DLC
y	005	 	 	20060817132438.0
y	008	 	 	060712i| anannbabn          |a ana
y	010	 	 	sh 85023499
y	040	 	 	DLC|cDLC|dDLC
y	053	 	0	HV1596.2|bHV1596.5
g	150	 	 	Blind children
p	450	 	 	Blindness in children|xPatients
p	450	 	 	|wnne|aChildren, Blind
q	550	 	 	|wg|aChildren with visual disabilities

and for good measure I suppressed and unsuppressed it at the same time.
The change I made was to swap the 150 around with the 2nd 450, so our
authority now has Children, Blind as main heading.
AACP should have run during the night and I expected all our bib
headings (we have six) to have changed - but they haven't. I don't
understand why not. We definitely have AACP switched on.

But in a way my fundamental question is -- 
since so many authorities, names being principal problem, don't have old
form in 4XX, what can I do to avoid having to check all the reports from
beginning to end and make manual changes? If AACP isn't going to do the
job, what use is it to me? And those reports can be pretty massive.

Cheers

Paul




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