Chris Baer wrote in part:
" There seems to me to be a flaw in this process in that many, if not
most, people have multiple occupations or interests in the course of
their lives. . . . I have come across a number of duplicate
authorities created because changing occupations required people to
write on radically different subjects and observe different signature
conventions. "
Maintenance of authority records will always be an issue. Is it easier to place more names on undifferentiated records, or to create separate ARs with the info at hand at the time? And, for our patrons, which is better? I tend to lean towards the latter, with more numbers of distinct ARs rather than fewer.
Daniel
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Daniel CannCasciato
Head of Cataloging
Central Washington University Library
400 E. University Way
Ellensburg, WA 98926-7548
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