Library Cataloging
The lists of names being revised by adding death dates or changing the open date to a birth date is way too much for a small library to look through. When the lists first appeared I started to check them with my catalog, but soon stopped. Too few hits for the time invested.
Here is an idea, maybe some large library (or OCLC) that has most of these names in their catalog could create a list that shows the class number most associated with an author. If I could just check the QBs, QCs, QEs, and TLs I could find most of the changes in our catalog. I'd guess a music library, or management library or law library would like to check just their areas also. How about it? Any takers?
Names
- Cataloging Info By The Crowd
The LibraryThing weblog has a post about their users adding author information.On Thursday we introduced a silly new "meme" page called "Dead or Alive?" which listed your authors by their mortal status--alive, dead, unknown or "not a person." (See the...
- Dates In Authority Records
News from LCIn June of 2005, the Library of Congress Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) invited comment on this list (and others) regarding a proposal to allow the addition of death dates to headings in the LC/NACO Authority File. CPSO received...
- Proposal For The Addition Of Dates To Existing Personal Name Headings
The Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) has been considering a suggestion to reinstate MARC 21 note field 678 (Biographical or Historical Data) in name authority records in order to provide the death date of persons who are known to be deceased,...
- Authorty Tool
a.k.a. (also known as) lists author pseudonyms, aliases, nicknames, working names, legalized names, pen names, noms de plume, maiden names... etc. As of 06/05/04 it included 11,516 entries (4,142 'real' + 7,374 'pseudo')....
- Typos
Typos in the catalog can be a problem for our users. More Typographical Errors in Library Databases, a listing of typos found by a group out to correct these errors has been updated. This list contains more subtle errors. "The words in this list are correctly...
Library Cataloging
Revised Name Authority Records
The lists of names being revised by adding death dates or changing the open date to a birth date is way too much for a small library to look through. When the lists first appeared I started to check them with my catalog, but soon stopped. Too few hits for the time invested.
Here is an idea, maybe some large library (or OCLC) that has most of these names in their catalog could create a list that shows the class number most associated with an author. If I could just check the QBs, QCs, QEs, and TLs I could find most of the changes in our catalog. I'd guess a music library, or management library or law library would like to check just their areas also. How about it? Any takers?
Names
- Cataloging Info By The Crowd
The LibraryThing weblog has a post about their users adding author information.On Thursday we introduced a silly new "meme" page called "Dead or Alive?" which listed your authors by their mortal status--alive, dead, unknown or "not a person." (See the...
- Dates In Authority Records
News from LCIn June of 2005, the Library of Congress Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) invited comment on this list (and others) regarding a proposal to allow the addition of death dates to headings in the LC/NACO Authority File. CPSO received...
- Proposal For The Addition Of Dates To Existing Personal Name Headings
The Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) has been considering a suggestion to reinstate MARC 21 note field 678 (Biographical or Historical Data) in name authority records in order to provide the death date of persons who are known to be deceased,...
- Authorty Tool
a.k.a. (also known as) lists author pseudonyms, aliases, nicknames, working names, legalized names, pen names, noms de plume, maiden names... etc. As of 06/05/04 it included 11,516 entries (4,142 'real' + 7,374 'pseudo')....
- Typos
Typos in the catalog can be a problem for our users. More Typographical Errors in Library Databases, a listing of typos found by a group out to correct these errors has been updated. This list contains more subtle errors. "The words in this list are correctly...