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.

ISBN Check - Form for checking International Standard Book Numbers for correct length, format, checksums and check digits.
Rate this
Web World of Authority Control - 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 attempt to help Authority Control Librarians and other librarians to do authority work easier and faster. Created and maintained by subject authorities librarians at Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.
Rate this
Authority Tools for Audio-Visual Catalogers - Annotated list of online and print resources which have proven useful in performing authority control for audiovisual materials.
Rate this
Library of Congress Authorities - Includes subject, name, title and name/title authority records created by or for the Library of Congress. Permits free downloading in MARC format.
Rate this
Authority Control: A Basic Glossary of Terms - A glossary of terms used when discussing authority control. Provided by staff at the University of Buffalo Libraries.
Rate this
Catalog of Uncataloged Titles - 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.
Rate this
Authority Control in the 21st Century - Conference proceedings of an invitational conference held by OCLC March 31 - April 1, 1996. Includes full-text of the papers presented at the conference.
Rate this
The Union List of Artist Names - 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 projects. The entire ULAN is available free of charge, allowing a search for artists or architects and retrieve their variant names, biographical information, and bibliographic citations.
Rate this

Web Search for Authority Control Cataloguing Technical Services Library and Information Science Libraries Reference - News search for Authority Control Cataloguing Technical Services Library and Information Science Libraries Reference - encyclopedia entries for Authority Control Cataloguing Technical Services Library and Information Science Libraries Reference