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Cataloging and Authority Control
Spring 2006, 13/15 February
Bharat Mehra
IS 520 (Organization and Representation of Information)
School of Information Sciences
University of Tennessee
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>Dear Dr. Mehra:
>For Assignment 1, I am not fullly sure what you mean by "matched items." I
>have read through my notes and the Powerpoint slides, but I cannot find
>anything referring to them. Could you please clarify this for me? I have
>made good progress on the assignment so far.
> >Sincerely,
Access Points--Types? main entry added entries (indexes) author(s) title title variations related works series title(s) analytical (parts in the work) subjects (to be discussed) classification number (to be discussed)
Bibliographic
Subject
Examples of Title Variations Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal-New York Wall Street Journal, NYC Wall Street Journal (N. Y.) Wall Street JNL, -NYC Wall St. Journal Wall St. Jnl.-NYC WSJ-NYC
Treatment of Title VariationsInformation processing & management
Information processing and management
added title:
Ellis, L. Ethan. 40 million schoolbooks can't be wrong : ‡b myths in American history / ‡c by L. Ethan Ellis.
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1. .... 2. ....I. Forty million schoolbooks can't be wrong
Series vs. Serials A group of individual publications related in some
way
How to ensure a bibliographic access point that will bring together all items of a series together?
A publication issued regularly or irregularly over time
How to ensure all works in a serial are accessible?
Definition of “Series”
A succession of usually continuously numbered issues or volumes of a publication, published with related authors or subjects and similar formats.
A succession of regularly aired television programs, each one of which is complete in and of itself.
Source: The Free Dictionary (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/serial)
Definition of “Periodical” definition of a periodical outlined in ANSI
Z39.20-1983: “A publication that constitutes one issue in a continuous series under the same title, published more than once a year over an indefinite period, with individual issues in the series numbered consecutively or with each issue date. Newspapers are excluded.”
ANSI=American National Standards Institute
Series Title The record has a series statement
How about access to series title? Rules suggest three types of treatments:
1. An added entry for the same series title 2. No added entry 3. Added entry for series is different from the
series statement
Uniform Title (Standard Id) to bring together all catalogue entries for a
work for which various expressions and manifestations (e.g., editions, translations, media) have appeared under different titles
to identify a work when its well-known title is different from the title proper of the item being catalogued
to differentiate between two or more works published under an identical title proper
Let’s search for the Journal of the American Society for Information Science in:
UTK OPAC
WorldCat
Let’s search for the Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology
Definition of a “Serial” 1. Of, forming, or arranged in a series.
2. a. Published or produced in installments, as a novel or television drama.b. Relating to such publication or production.
3. Responsible for a series of usually criminal acts over a period of time: a serial arsonist.
4. Music Relating to or based on a row of tones, especially the 12 pitches of the chromatic scale.
5. Computer Science a. Of or relating to the sequential transmission of all the bits of a byte over one wire: a serial port; a serial printer.
b. Of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations: serial processing.
n. A literary or dramatic work published or produced in installments.
Source: The Free Dictionary (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/serial)
Access Points--More Questions? 1. What are the objectives for adding other
bibliographic or subject access points to the eight areas description?
2. What are the most important features of an effective access point?
3. How do we achieve these objectives?
Principles of Access Points Uniqueness each heading should represent one and only
one entity (person, corporate body, geographic name, etc.)
Uniformness/Consistency each entity should have an identical heading under a specific heading for a person, all the
works by him/her should be retrieved under this heading, only the works by him/her
should be retrieved
Authority Control The process of determining the form of a
heading for a person, corporate body, meeting, subject, title; determining cross references to that form; determining relationships of this heading with other authoritative headings
Documenting the above decisions using authority records
Authority Control
Catalog records contain:
Access points-for the work Bibliographic description-for the item Location-for the individual library’s
holdings
Role of Authority Control in Catalog Functions Finding and gathering function
Author Title by given author Subject on a given subject
in a given kind of literature
What the collection contains
Collection contains ‘info object’ specified by:
• Its author and title
• If the author is not named in the book, its title alone, or
• If the author/title are inappropriate or insufficient for ID, a suitable substitute for the title; and
Different works by a particular author and different editions of a particular work
Cutter’s Formulation
Paris Principles
Function of Catalogs Intelligibility: substance and format of
catalog entries should be helpful to catalog users; and make sense!
Findability: Access should be quick and liberal
Fairness
(Berman, 1981)
Processes in Authority Control
Creation of authority records Gathering of records into authority file Linking of authority file to biblio. file
(authority system) Maintenance of authority system Evaluation of authority file and system
Authority Control: Level
National authority database (such as Library of Congress)
International authority database (OCLC) Local authority files maintained in the
library or institution
Authority Records An authority record that shows a heading for
person, corporate, geographic name, title, etc. in its established form and cross references
Authority records are kept separate from bibliographic records (two databases)
There is a card from the unauthorized heading reference to the authorized heading
“common characteristic”: what does it mean?
Pollio, Howard see Pollio, Howard R.
His Behavior and existence, 1981: CIP t.p. (Howard Pollio)
Pollio, Howard R. used for Pollio, Howard
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Components of Authority Records Heading, qualifiers Cross-references “see also…” to heading Notes on creation of heading Related headings Call numbers Name of person who prepared the record Date of preparation Call number of 1st biblio. Item with the same access point
Role of Authority Records Standardizes the access point framework for the system
Ensures collocation of records in a biblio. file that have the same access point
Ensures issuance of standardized biblio. surrogates
Records the procedures for identifying values for the access points
Records (as cross-references) variant manifestations of access points
Cataloger's Reference Shelf A free resource on the World Wide Web
by The Library Corporation (TLC), library automation company, developer of BiblioFile software (micro-based) and Library.Solution (turnkey system)
http://www.tlcdelivers.com/tlc/crs/
Questions What factors determine the choice of
particular authority control standards in a given situation?
Why is change a constant issue in authority control?
How has machine automation changed the process of authority control?
Assignments
• Was Due 8 Feb: CR2
• Due 15 Feb: CR3
• Due 15 Feb: Exercise 1
• Due 22 Feb: CR4
Some Rules 0XX (control information, numbers, codes) 1XXfields (main entry) 2XX (titles, edition, imprint: in general, the title statement of responsibility, edition,
and publication information) 3XX (physical description etc.) 4XXfields (series statements) 5XX (notes) 6XXfields (subject added entries) 7XXfields (added entries other than subject or series) 8XXfields (series added entries: other authoritative forms) 9XXfields (reserved for local use: used by vendors, systems, or individuals to
exchange additional data)
X00Personal names X10Corporate names X11Meeting names X30Uniform titles X40Bibliographic titles X50Topical terms X51Geographic names
For example, 610: subject heading that is a corporate name
Class Activity 5
Each student is given one card catalog. Identify the value for Cutter’s fields and create an authority record for each field.
Go to the Authority Record Database in Library of Congress (http://authorities.loc.gov) and identify the authoritative headings for each value. Discuss how authorized and unauthorized headings are cross-referenced?
For each authorized heading, how many bibliographic records are found in LC collection using the heading? If an authorized heading is not used, why so?
Class Activity 5
Identify issues in the process of compiling:
the authority record for that particular “information object”
creating an authority file from the compiled authority record
linking the authority file to the bibliographic system file (authority system)
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