Automatic date expansion for personal names

Under certain conditions, when you control a personal name heading tagged as a 100, 600, 700, or 800, the system automatically adds a closing date, if needed and available, and inserts the controlled heading into the bibliographic record.

Conditions include the following:

• The name heading must be established independently of any additionally embellished forms of the name.
• The name portion and the opening date must be an exact normalized text match to a 100 or 400 heading in an authority record.

Other conditions and limitations are described in detail with examples in Technical Bulletin 259, Authorities System Changes.