Authority Control Cataloguing Technical Services Library and Information Science

Authority Control

Category for sites that discuss the process of authority control. This is the system where libraries examine and work with catalog records to make sure the names of authors, titles, etc. are uniform throughout the catalog to make it easier to find items.

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• - The ULAN currently contains some 200,000 names representing approximately 100,000 individual artists (or "creators," including performance artists, and decorative artists) and architects, cumulated from nine participating Getty documentation pro
  
• - Includes subject, name, title and name/title authority records created by or for the Library of Congress. Permits free downloading in MARC format.
  
• - A glossary of terms used when discussing authority control. Provided by staff at the University of Buffalo Libraries.
  
• - Service that helps you locate information not usually cataloged in bibliographic sources that may contain the information you need. View a record that includes contact information for the publisher and cost.
  
• - Form for checking International Standard Book Numbers for correct length, format, checksums and check digits.
  
• - Annotated list of online and print resources which have proven useful in performing authority control for audiovisual materials.
  
• - Conference proceedings of an invitational conference held by OCLC March 31 - April 1, 1996. Includes full-text of the papers presented at the conference.
  
• - Bibliography listing that includes tools, thesauri, Library of Congress sites, articles, workshops, journals, ALA committees, listservs, libraries, and vendors that deal with authority control or may be helpful in establishing authorities. This list is an
  
  

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