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Authority Records for Public Services: Perspectives from Cataloging and Reference

Authority Records for Public Services: Perspectives from Cataloging and Reference. Stephen Luttmann University of Northern Colorado 2009 MOUG Annual Meeting Chicago, Illinois. Why don’t more reference folks use Connexion? lack of access bad memories of authority file.

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Authority Records for Public Services: Perspectives from Cataloging and Reference

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  1. Authority Records for Public Services: Perspectives from Cataloging and Reference Stephen Luttmann University of Northern Colorado 2009 MOUG Annual Meeting Chicago, Illinois

  2. Why don’t more reference folks use Connexion? • lack of access • bad memories of authority file

  3. in the . . . tedious old days . . .

  4. Tossing the bathwater, saving the baby . . .

  5. Saving the baby, and some of the bathwater

  6. . . . and now you can search:

  7. Search fields (of varying usefulness)

  8. So why should reference folks use the authority file? • what Wendy said • convenience • in ascending order of usefulness: • title information

  9. Title variations . . .

  10. . . . but the rules determine how much explanation you get

  11. Corelli: Farinelli Variations

  12. Seventeen titles (and counting)

  13. . . . versus 12 locally

  14. (. . . plus zero)

  15. Tchaikovsky’s “Golden Cloudlet”

  16. -- one holding (and no UT) in WorldCat

  17. Number of records in AF:

  18. -- one.

  19. Searching with UT in WorldCat: 16 results

  20. UT (and “cloud”)

  21. Truncation works too:

  22. So why should reference folks use the authority file? • what Wendy said • in ascending order of usefulness: • title information • personal information

  23. e.g., composer dates

  24. So why should reference folks use the authority file? • what Wendy said • in ascending order of usefulness: • title information • personal information, and especially • disambiguation

  25. John Carter . . . times three

  26. Bill Sherwood . . . times two

  27. . . . separated at last

  28. So why should reference folks use the authority file? • what Wendy said • in ascending order of usefulness: • title information • personal information, and especially • disambiguation • reintegralization

  29. The dual lives of the Mendez twins . . .

  30. Rafael Jr. and Robert, born 1937

  31. Rafael Jr: not in AF

  32. Robert Mendez: in AF twice?

  33. Robert Mendez as trumpeter

  34. Robert Mendez, b. 1937 – transplant surgeon

  35. Trumpeters = transplant surgeons

  36. . . . and Rafael Jr. = Ralph

  37. . . . who isn’t in the AF . . .

  38. The AF as reference tool: • use it • (catalogers: keep on doing!) • (reference folks too:) help enhance it

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