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Authority Control IG “Questioning Authorities” pt. I: Tagging and Folksonomies

June 26th, 2006 by Laura Akerman

Questioning Authorities: Adapting Authority Control to the Changing Needs of Library Users. Presented by LITA/ALCTS CCS Authority Control Interest Group. June 25, 1:30 p.m.
Large room, full-ish but not packed at the beginning. As usual with this IG, this is a long, intense program with quite varied presentations, so I will break [...]

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Authority Control IG “Questioning Authorities” pt. 2, “those pesky series”: Synchronizing vernacular fields and LC update

June 26th, 2006 by Laura Akerman

Questioning Authorities: Adapting Authority Control to the Changing Needs of Library Users: LITA/ALCTS CCS Authority Control Interest Group (part 2)
Manon Theroux, Authority Control Librarian at Yale, gave a thorough and deliberate presentation on the vernacular field authority control issue which was a bit of a relief to this note taker after trying [...]

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