Hi Robert: When our theses were all paper issues (a few still are issued in paper), we followed the same procedures as with books, that is, formulate the name of the author not previously established according to the information available in the work being cataloged and/or already in the OCLC bib. file, except when additional information is required to break conflicts. Thesis authors would be established as "preliminary" and reviewed if and when they "published." All our theses are now submitted digitally and provided with Dublin core records. When such records are eventually "cross-walked" to MARC and entered in OCLC, the issue of authority control will be readdressed. > --Are there issues you confront from authors if they see this > information in FirstSearch, public catalog &/or the Web?� How do you > handle such issues? Extremely rarely. In such cases, the authors' wishes would be respected to the extent that they can be accommodated within the parameters of the cataloging rules. Cheers! jgm John G. Marr Cataloger CDS, UL Univ. of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] **There are only 2 kinds of thinking: "out of the box" and "outside the box." Opinions belong exclusively to the individuals expressing them, but sharing is permitted.