The capability to add and/or update authority records will be reinstated at approximately 9 p.m. EDT, Sunday, March 25.

During that period, OCLC will also suspend the loading of distributed authority records from the Library of Congress, but will continue to retrieve contribution files. During the outage, users will continue to be able to: search and browse the LC Names and Subjects authority files, search and browse the LC Names and Subjects history files, create new authority records, edit existing authority records, lock existing authority records, save new and/or modified authority records to online and/or local files, submit new and/or modified authority records for peer review, control headings in bibliographic records using existing records in the LC Names and/or Subjects authority files, export authority records, print authority records.

Should a user attempt to add and/or replace a master authority record during the outage, a message will be displayed:

• Connexion client (1.60 or 1.70) will return the message "An error has occurred…" if either the Add record or Replace record commands is invoked. If the user attempts to add a record from either the online or local save file, other error messages may be presented.
• Connexion browser will return the messages "Add failed" or "Replace failed" depending on the action selected by the user.

Should any type of error message be returned, the user can choose to save the record to the online or local save file or cancel changes.

During the period of outage an OCLC System Alert will also be posted.

Contact Becky Dean at OCLC directly — (800) 848-5878, ext. 5144 or deanr@oclc.org — for additional information or assistance.