The British Library also generates the skeleton of its authority records
from bibliographic records; our system supplies a 670$a for the work
catalogued. I manage a team of people doing authority research on a
daily basis, and our work is always made harder when we encounter a
record that contains only database citations. I think we lose something
essential if we omit at least a 670 $a for the work catalogued, even if
no information can be cited from it. 

Regards
Richard
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Authority Control Team Manager 
The British Library
                                                                        
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Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] DCM Z1 undeleted sentence in CDT

Good points, all.  RLIN has a similar macro.

Mary Jane Cuneo
Serials cataloging &  NACO
Fine Arts Library
Harvard University

On 3/6/2006 2:59 PM, Adam Schiff wrote:

> I agree with Manon and Gary that it's inadvisable to omit this 670, 
> for the reasons they so clearly articulated.  I hazard to guess that 
> most of the authorities we create (at least, in OCLC, with which I'm 
> most familiar) are initially generated through the use of a macro run 
> on a heading on a bibliographic record, so that it really isn't much 
> extra work to have that 670 anyway.
>
> Adam
>
>

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