Authority Control in the Online Environment: Considerations and Practices

By Barbara B. Tillett

This valuable new book reviews past research on authority control, offers new findings, and documents important considerations for automating authority control. Covering a wide range of important topics, the contributors explore sharing authority records nationally and internationally, perspectives on recent research and theoretical studies, results of some new research with suggestions for future research, and descriptions of the design of three different computerized authority control systems along with the impact of two such systems on library operations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00DHP3I9A
• ISBN13: 9780866568715
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.9"