BNE Authorities
Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE) Authority File
The Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE) authority file contains more than 4.1 million authority records, including personal, corporate, conference, and geographic names, name-titles, uniform titles, series titles, subjects, genre, and subdivision headings.
Types of headings
See BNE indexes and indexed fields for a list of headings.
Search or browse for a BNE authority record
When working with WorldCat bibliographic records, you can search the BNE authority records to determine the correct forms for names of persons, organizations, conferences, or titles associated with the resource you are describing, or when adding subject headings to the WorldCat bibliographic record, to determine established headings.
- From the Data Type drop-down list, select Authority Records.
- From the Scope drop-down list, select a scope.
- BNE - searches the BNE file
- BNE - Browse - browses the BNE file
- From the Index drop-down list, select an index. For a list of all indexes, see BNE indexes and indexed fields.
- In the Term(s) text field, enter your search terms. The text field will expand to fit your search terms, if needed.
- Click Search. The Search results page appears with the matching authorities results listed in a table.
- Click the name of the matching item to view the authority file record.
Apply BNE authority heading information to a bibliographic record
After you control a heading and replace the record in WorldCat, Record Manager automatically updates the heading whenever the linked authority record changes.
Copy authority heading information from an authority file
- Open the bibliographic record to which you wish to apply BNE authority heading information.
- In the MARC 21 editor, click the field immediately above the location where you want to add the controlled field and then click the Add Field icon ().
- Enter the controllable field and, if applicable, the indicator you want to add to the bibliographic record.
- In the Basic search panel, select a scope.
- BNE - searches the BNE file
- BNE - Browse - browses the BNE file
- From the Index drop-down list, select an index.
- Based on the index you selected, enter your search terms. The text field will expand to fit your search terms, if needed.
- Click Search. The Search results page appears with the matching authorities results listed in a table.
- Click the Name of the matching authority to view the authority file record.
- Click Copy Authority Data.
- Return to the field you created in the MARC 21 editor.
- Select Apply Authority Data from the Edit drop-down menu. The BNE authority heading information is added to the field. The header displays as a hyperlink in the bibliographic record and the $0 value is shown as a mouse-over of the link.
Manually enter a single authority heading
Manually enter multiple authority headings
Controllable fields
BNE authority headings can be added to bibliographic records and controlled provided that the heading is in one of the following fields:
- 100, 110, 111, 130, 700, 710, 711, 730, 800, 810, 811, 830 (where $b = "spa")
- 600, 610, 611, 630, , 650, 651, second indicator 7 and $2 embne or $2 embucm
- 655 second indicator 7 and $2 tgfbne or $2 embucm