|
|
|
|
| |
Unit 6: Access Points
& Authority Control
|
Topic Areas: The unit describes the process of
choosing access points for works;
explores the need for consistency
in access points with
cross-references from variant
forms of name. Includes choosing access
points, authority control,
authority records,
cross-references
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the role of access points in making surrogate records available to users.
- Use RDA to choose access points for works.
- Explain how authority control affects collocation within information retrieval systems.
- Interpret authority records and define how cross-references are used to connect variant forms of names within a record.
- Use the Library of Congress Name Authority File to search for and find authorized names for bibliographic entities.
Guiding Questions:
- How are surrogate records made
available to users via access
points?
- How do access points affect
collocation?
- What is authority control?
- How does authority control
affect collocation?
|
|
|
Required Readings
|
Joudrey
& Taylor, The
Organization of Information,
Chapter 8
Billey,
"Just Because We Can"
Jeng,
"What Authority? Why Control?"
Thompson,
"More Than a Name"
PCC Statement on Gender on Name Authority Records [skim]
|
|
|
Relevant Articles from The
Encyclopedia of Library and
Information Science
|
Gatenby and
Smith-Yoshimura, "Name Authority
Control"
Haak, "ORCID"
|
|
|
Recommended Readings
Articles and Web Resources
|
EAC-CPF,
Encoded Archival Context
Johnson, "Where is Authority Control When We Need It?"
Wilson,
"The Catalog as Access Mechanism:
Background and Concepts," p.
253-268.
Wisser,
"Describing Entities and
Identities: The Development and
Structure of EAC-CPF"
|
|
|
Recommended Readings
Books at Beatley
|
Joudrey,
Introduction to Cataloging &
Class, 11th ed., Chapters 7,
8, and 10
|
|
|
Course Outline
|
- Unit 1:
Introduction to Information
Organization
- Unit 2:
Environments and their Tools
- Unit 3:
Introduction to Metadata
- Unit 4:
Encoding
- Unit 5:
Description
- Unit 6:
Access & Authority Control
- Unit 7:
Aboutness & Subject Analysis
- Unit 8:
Vocabulary Control
- Unit 9:
Categorization, Classification,
& Arrangement
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|