I'm not sure if that was intended sarcastically, but for my part I doubt most users even know what and authority record is, or why it's necessary, much less an undifferentiated NAR.  Like most things in cataloging, if a non-unique heading impedes discovery, they only notice that "the catalog is broken", and we're lucky if they even come to the reference desk to ask for help.


Benjamin Abrahamse
Cataloging Coordinator
Acquisitions, Metadata and Enterprise Systems
MIT Libraries
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  Is anyone measuring how extremely serious the effect of undifferentiated name headings on library patrons is? Are they panicking and demanding we spend millions on fixing the "problem" immediately... or else?

Cheers!

jgm

  John G. Marr
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  CDS, UL
  Univ. of New Mexico
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