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-<h1>Authorities Help</h1><h2>What is a MARC Authority Record?</h2>
+<h1>Authorities</h1>
-<p>A MARC Authority Record are used to ensure consitency across catalog records by providing a way to define the standard form of names for:</p><ul><li>People (Authors, Editors, Publishers, Illustrators etc)</li><li>Titles</li><li>Subjects</li><li>Organizations (Companies, Academic Instituites etc)</li></ul>For more information about Authority Records with MARC 21 see the tutorial on the <a href="http://www.loc.gov/marc/uma/index.html">Library of Congress website</a>
+<p>Authority records are a way of controlling fields in your MARC records. Using authority records will provide you with control over subject headings, personal names and places.</p>
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+<h2>Searching Authorities</h2>
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+<p>From the authorities page you can search for existing terms and the bibliographic records they are attached to.</p>
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+<p>From the results you will see the authority record, how many bibliographic records it is attached to, and a delete link (if there are not bibliographic records attached).</p>
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+<p>Clicking on the authority record summary will open the full record and the option to edit the record.</p>
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