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Instructor: Daniel N. Joudrey
E-mail: joudrey@simmons.edu
Office: P-205B
Phone: (617) 521-2863 |
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| Unit 6: Access & Authority Control |
The unit describes the process of creating access points for names and titles of works that are represented in information resources; providing consistency in form of access points with references from alternate forms is also explored.
Topics: Choosing primary and secondary access points, Rules for name creation, Authority records, Authority control, Cross-references
- How are surrogate records made available to users via access points?
- How can access points be constructed so that all versions of a name will be found together?
- How do access points affect collocation?
- How can persons or entities with the same name be distinguished from each other?
- How can all names used by a person or body, and/or all manifestations of a name of a person or body be brought together?
- How can all manifestations of the same work be brought together?
- How does access/authority control affect collocation?
- What functions does an authority file serve?
- Why is authority control important for public services?
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Required Readings |
Taylor, The Organization of Information, Chapter 8
Jeng, "What Authority? Why Control?"
Tillett, "Authority Control State of the Art" http://www.unifi.it/universita/biblioteche/ac/relazioni/tillett_eng.pdf
Borbinha, "Authority Control in the World of Metadata" |
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Recommended Readings
Articles |
Holm, "Authority
Control..."
Vellucci, "Metadata and Authority Control"
Wilson, "The Catalog as Access Mechanism:
Background and Concepts," pp. 253-268. |
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Recommended Readings
Web Sites |
Tillett, Authority Control on the
Web http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/tillett_paper.html
Barnhart, "Access Control
Records" (really old, but covers basic concepts) http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/tillett_paper.html
Pitti, "Creator Description: Encoded Archival Context" http://www.unifi.it/universita/biblioteche/ac/relazioni/pitti_eng.pdf |
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Recommended Readings
Books |
Taylor, Introduction to Cat & Class, Chapters 6, 7, and 8
Chan, Cataloging and Classification, Chapters 5-6
Harvey & Hider, Organising Knowledge in a Global Society, Chapter 5
Smiraglia, The Nature of "A Work," pp. 35-52.
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Vocabulary |
- Access point
- Added entry
- Analytical entry
- Asynchronous responsibility
- Author
- Author/title access point
- Authority control
- Authority file
- Authority record
- Authority work
- Collocation
- Corporate body
- Entry (as opposed to "heading")
- Heading (as opposed to "entry")
- LCNAF
- Main entry (access point)
- Main entry (record)
- Paris Principles
- Primary access point
- Secondary access point
- Synchronous responsibility
- Title entry
- Uniform title
- USNAF
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Course Outline |
- Unit 1: Introduction and Environments
- Unit 2: Retrieval Tools & Current Systems
- Unit 3: Introduction to Metadata
- Unit 4: Encoding Standards
- Unit 5: Description
- Unit 6: Access & Authority Control
- Unit 7 : Aboutness & Subject Analysis
- Unit 8 : Vocabulary Control
- Unit 9 : Categorization, Classification, & Arrangement
- Unit 10: The Past
- Unit 11: The Future
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| Updated June 16, 2008. |