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Maxwell's Guide to Authority Work

Author: Robert L. Maxwell

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ISBN 9788170005667
Year of Publication 2009
Binding HardBound
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Language English
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"Unidentified Flying Objects" not "UFOs" or "Flying Saucers"
Authority work is the Linchpin of the Library Catalog. as Maxwell puts it, "Without authority control the burden is placed onthe user to think of all the possible froms a cataloger might have used to give access in the catalog to a given author or subject." From one of the preeminent experts in the field, this step-by-step guide for ensuring that your library and staff are creating and maintaining authority records with the end user in mind is a must-have.
In this readable text, authority work is broken down to its most basic components so that you can trace and follow preparation of a complete authority record. helpful illustration identify the key characteristics of good authority records, common acronyms are defined, and cross-references throughout reinforce material. You'll learn how to
from and record uniform access points
Keep thorough and accurate records
share information in an environment of international database and co-operative cataloging.
The authoritative tool for making certain a person, author, corporate body organization, book or other media is appropriately accessible under its authority name, subject and form, Maxwell's should be part of any library's toolbox.


Acknowledgements
Glossary of Acronyms
1 INTRODUCTION 1
Headings 1
Authority Files 3
Why Do Authority work? 6

2 STANDARDS GOVERNING AUTHORITY CONTROL 10
Standards for the Formulation of Headings 10
Names and Uniform (MARC21) 11
Variable Fields 12
Fixed Fields 18
The leader 18
The 008 field 20
RLIN and OCLC Fixed field displays 29
3 BASIC AUTHORITY CONTROL PROCEDURES 33
Work Flow When Establishing a Heading 33
Changes t Established Headings 35
Creation of the Authority Record 37
The Heading 38
Sources 38
The 670 field 38
the 675 field 44
Reference 46
General principles 46
4XX fields 48
5XX fields 52
The 663 field 59
Other Parts of the Record 61
The 010 field 61
The 040 field 64
The 053 field 64
The 083 field 66
The 667 field 66
Fixed-Length Data 69
4 AUTHORITY CONTROL OF NAMES 71
Choice of Name 71
Personal Names 71
Corporate Names 74
Geographic Names 76
Name or Subject? 80
Names 81
Subjects 82
Names (events) 84
Subjects (events) 85
From of Name 85
Personal Names 85
Undifferentiated names 87
Corporate Names 89
Omissions 89
Additions 90
Subordinate bodies 92
Geographic Names 93
Omissions 93
Additions 94
Changes to the form as found 95
5 UNIFORM TITLES: GENERAL INFORMATION 97
What are Uniform Titles and What Are they used For? 97
When Should a Uniform Title and a Corresponding Authority Record Be made? 100
Choosing the Uniform Title 102
Creating the Authority Record 108
Authorized Heading 108
References 108
Notes 111
Fixed Fields 111
6 UNIFORM TITLES: PARTICULAR PROBLEMS 113
Collocation Techniques 113
Translations 113
Collective Title 116
Laws and Treaties 119
Differentiation Techniques 122
Monographs 123
Standardized Qualifiers 125
Serials 126
Works Created before 1501 136
Manuscript Headings 138
7 SERIES: GENERAL INFORMATION 144
Definitions 144
Series 144
Analyzable Serials 146
Multipart Items 147
Relationship of the Bibliographic Record to the Series Authority Record 148
Identification of the Series 151
Choice of Entry 151
Sources of Information 152
Formulation of the heading 153
Series Numbering 156
Change of Title 161
Series 162
Multipart Items 166
Parallel Titles 166
Sub-series 168
Sub-series or not? 168
Establishment record: main series unnumbered 171
Bibliographic record: main series numbered 171
Very generic terms as sub-series 172
Supplements and special numbers to serials 173
Works of Personal Authorship in Series 174
Series-Like Phrases 179
Republications 184
8 SERIES AUTHORITY RECORDS 188
Overview of the Series Authority Record 188
Detailed Treatment of MARC Authority Format Fields 190
The Heading: 1XX field 190
Reference 4XX fields 191
Series entered under author: references from the title 192
Series entered under title; name-title reference 193
Reference from other names 193
Title variants 194
 Qualification of reference 196
Reference: 5 XX Fields 197
Numbering : 640-642 198
Identification of the Publisher: 643 200
The Library's Treatment of the Series 201
Analysis (644) 201
Tracing (645) 202
Classification (646) 203
Notes 204
670 fields 204
675 field 205
667 fields 205
Fixed Fields 206
9 AUTHORITY CONTROL OF TERMS: THESAURUS BUILDING 207
Equivalence Relationships 208
Hierarchical Relationships 210
Generic Relationships 210
Whole-Part Relationships 211
Instance Relationships 212
Interhierarchical relationships 213
Associative Relationships 214
Descriptors within the same Hierarchy 215
Descriptors Belonging to Different hierarchies 216
Choice of Descriptors 216
10 AUTHORITY CONTROL TO TERMS: SUBJECTS 219
Subject Thesauri 219
Library of Congress Subject headings 220
Choice of Term 221
Hierarch y in LCSH 226
Subdivision Practice 227
Independent establishment of heading containing subdivision 229
Free-floating subdivision 230
Pattern headings 232
Geographic subdivision 234
Order of subdivisions 236
MARC Subject Authority Records 237
Fixed Fields 237
Heading 238
Reference 239
Library of Congress Control Number 239
Library of Congress Classification Number 239
Cataloging Source 240
Citation of Source 240
Scope Notes 240
Form of Geographic Subdivision 240
11 AUTHORITY CONTROL OF TERMS: GENRE/FROM 242
Use of Approved Thesauri 242
Prominent Thesauri Containing Genre/Form Terms 243
Multiple Thesauri in a single Database 245
MARC Coding of Genre/Form Term Authority Records 249
Variable Fields 249
Fixed Fields 251
Creation of Records Based on Existing Records 251
Sub-field #2 253
12 THE LIBRARY AND BEYOND 255
Sources of Authority Records 255
The Utilities 255
The Library of Congress 256
Outsourcing 257
Cooperative Cataloging Programs 258
The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) 258
NACO (Name Authority Cooperative Program) 259
SACO (Subject Authority Cooperative Program) 259
BIBCO (Bibliographic Record Cooperative Program)/CONSER (Cooperative Online Serials program) 260
Maintenance of the Library's System 261
Conclusion 263
INDEX 265

Robert L. Maxwell, author of the current edition of Maxwell's handbook for AACR2 (1997), is Associate Librarian at the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University. he has chaired the Bibliographic Standards Committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. He currently represents ACRL to the ALCTS Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access. He holds a Ph. d. In Classical Languages and Literature from the University of Toronta (1993) and an M.L.S. from the University of Arizona (1982)

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