A consortial authority control project by the Keystone Library Network

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 77-98

  Weber, Michael A ^a   Steely, Stephanie A ^a   Hinchcliff, Marilou Z ^b  

^a KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Authority control; Consortia; Grants; Outsourcing; Pennsylvania

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845729445     PISSN: 01639374     EISSN: 15444554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J104v43n01_07     Document Type: Review

References (14)

1. The KLN had eighteen members at the time of the implementation of the grant. It currently has seventeen members. Point Park left the consortium in August 2005 after that University's Information Technology Department received funding to purchase and operate its own library server. Point Park's library director, Elizabeth Evans, stated recently in an e-mail to the KLN coordinator to be shared with Cataloging & Classification Quarterly that "During the KLN membership, Point Park University Library benefited from being able to participate in the Authority Control project, enabling a much needed higher level of accessibility to its collection."
2. F. H. Ayers, "Authority Control Simply Does Not Work," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 32, no. 2 (2001), 55.
3. Robert L. Maxwell, Maxwell's Guide to Authority Work (Chicago: American Library Association, 2002), 7.
4. Tina Gross and Arlene G. Taylor, "What Have We Got to Lose?" College and Research Libraries 66, no. 3 (May 2005), 212.
5. Kathleen L. Wells, "Authority Control in Mississippi Public and Academic Libraries: A survey," Technical Services Quarterly 18, no. 2 (2000), 1.
6. Webex enables a combination of audio conferencing and computer-based video that allows the presenter to be in one location and the audience in another.
7. Sha Li Zhang, "Planning an Authority Control Project at a Medium-sized University Library," College and Research Libraries 62, no. 5 (Sept. 2001), 404.
8. Vinh-The Lam, "Outsourcing Authority Control: Experience of the University of Saskatchewan Libraries," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 32, no. 4 (2001), 53-54.
9. Amy Turner, Duke Authority with LTI May 2002, rev. Feb. 2003. Duke University. http://staff.lib.duke.edu/orgnztn/techservices/authorities/lti.html (accessed Oct. 1, 2005).
10. Point Park's spring break was a week earlier than the rest, so Endeavor reloaded their database during their break. Point Park utilized their OPAC in view-only mode while the rest were being reloaded.
11. James Tilio Maccaferri, "Managing Authority Control in a Retrospective Conversion Project," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 14, no. 3/4 (1992), 147.
12. LTI's copy of a library's database must be kept current so that when bibliographic records with updated headings are returned to the library, they contain all changes made by the library subsequent to base file cleanup. Otherwise, those changes will be lost.
13. Joan M. Bechtel, "An Authority Control Alternative for Small Colleges," College and Research Libraries 53, no. 6 (Nov. 1992), 487.
14. Susan L. Tsui and Carole F. Hinders, "Cost-Effectiveness and Benefits of Outsourcing Authority Control," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 26, no. 4 (1998), 60.