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Luck is What Happens When Preparation Meets Opportunity: Building Israel’s Multilingual, Multiscript Authority Database

Abstract Mazal, the Israeli national authority file, is a multilingual, multiscript database combining authority control with identity management. Equivalent headings in each of the country's four languages of cataloging can retrieve all library holdings, in any language, connected to any heading in the authority record. This paper will describe the consortium of 20 academic, public, and special libraries, led by the National Library of Israel, which is the first communal authority file to be natively created within the Alma Community Zone. Even a worldwide pandemic couldn't slow Mazal down; lockdown proved to be an opportunity for significant improvements and new projects.