Authority Control (Cataloguing)

Authority Control Sites:

Web World of Authority Control 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 (Authority Control) http://www.lib.byu.edu/dept/catalog/authority/ ISBN Check ISBN Check: Form for checking International Standard Book Numbers for correct length, format, checksums and check digits. (Authority Control) http://www.isbn-check.com/ Catalog of Uncataloged Titles 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. (Authority Control) http://www.sapphirepress.com/UNCAT/ Authority Control: A Basic Glossary of Terms 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. (Authority Control) http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/ac/def.html Authority Tools for Audio-Visual Catalogers Authority Tools for Audio-Visual Catalogers: Annotated list of online and print resources which have proven useful in performing authority control for audiovisual materials. (Authority Control) http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/olac/capc/authtools.html The Union List of Artist Names 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 pro (Authority Control) http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/ulan/index.html Authority Control in the 21st Century 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. (Authority Control) http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/da/ViewObject.jsp?objid=0000003520&reqid=354 Library of Congress Authorities 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. (Authority Control) http://authorities.loc.gov/