Lukol Directory: Reference: Libraries: Library and Information Science: Technical Services: Cataloguing: Authority Control

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.
http://authorities.loc.gov/

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.
http://www.sapphirepress.com/UNCAT/

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.
http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/da/ViewObje...

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.
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/c...

ISBN Check
Form for checking International Standard Book Numbers for correct length, format, checksums and check digits.
http://www.isbn-check.com/

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 projects. The entire ULAN is available free of charge, allowing a search for artists or architects and retrieve their variant names, biographical information, and bibliographic citations.
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_r...

Authority Tools for Audio-Visual Catalogers
Annotated list of online and print resources which have proven useful in performing authority control for audiovisual materials.
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/c...

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 attempt to help Authority Control Librarians and other librarians to do authority work easier and faster. Created and maintained by subject authorities librarians at Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.
http://www.lib.byu.edu/dept/catalog/author...


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Reference: Libraries: Library and Information Science: Librarians: Berman, Sanford



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