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We have a bib record on chemical risk management published in 1999? by the
EPA which is credited to the unestablished 'Kaiser, Geoffrey D."  Pete has
found a cache of bib records in OCLC for a nuclear physics symposium held
in Coral Gables, Florida, in 1969, credited to "Kaiser, Geoffrey."

I like to check initials, so I looked in OCLC under "Kaiser, G. D." for our
guy. I found:

Some notes taken by "G.D. Kaiser" on lectures by P.A.M. Dirac on quantum
mechanics, published in Coral Gables in 1969
A series of reports by "G.D. Kaiser" on safety issues around emissions at
nuclear plants in Britain, published 1971-1979
A report on nuclear plant safety in the US published in 1985


So I searched in Google on "Geoffrey D. Kaiser" and found an article by
"G.D. Kaiser" from Nuclear safety 27.3, 1986, page 369, with an author
footnote detailing his career:

B.A. from University of Cambridge, 1964
Ph.D. from Cavendish Laboratory, 1968
Six years post-grad work in theoretical elementary particle physics
After that, six years with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority,
Safety and Reliability Directorate
Joined NUS Corporation in Gaithersburg, Md., continuing to work on nuclear
plant emissions safety

I think Pete and I are looking at the same guy, and that "Kaiser, Geoffrey
D." or "Kaiser, G. D. $q (Geoffrey D.)" would be better AAP options than
"Kaiser, Geoffrey." We'll sort out which of us follows through on
establishing him. NB: without Pete's raising the question, I'm not sure I
would have pulled all these threads together.

Thanks,

Stephen


On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 8:43 AM Hostage, John <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> I think you should definitely qualify your Geoffrey.  It's not just
> etiquette, I'm pretty sure it's policy.
>
> On the question of etiquette/policy, I'm seeing certain contributors
> repeatedly add qualifiers to existing unqualified names just so they can
> enter a new authority record with the same unqualified name for a different
> person. I wish they'd stop.  It makes it hard to keep bib records linked to
> the correct authority.
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> *From:* Program for Cooperative Cataloging <[log in to unmask]> on
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> *Sent:* Monday, March 9, 2020 17:00
> *To:* [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> *Subject:* [PCCLIST] LCNAF etiquette question
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> Hi,
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> I’ve got what I think of as an etiquette question.
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> Recently the 100 in the authority record for “Kaiser, Geoffrey” (n
> 85329639) was changed to “Kaiser, Geoffrey R.”  The old form remains as a
> 400 $w nne.
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> There is another Geoffrey Kaiser whom I need to establish.  He’s an editor
> of the book “Coral Gables Conference on Fundamental Interactions at High
> Energy” (OCLC #60408).  A personal name phrase search in OCLC suggests he
> and Geoffrey R. are the only people by the name Geoffrey Kaiser appearing
> in OCLC.
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> I’d like to change the 400 $w nne in n 85329639 to “Kaiser, Geoffrey $q
> (Geoffrey R.)” and establish my Geoffrey without qualification.  I’d have
> to take off the $w subfield, I guess.
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> Is there anything wrong with this?  I realize it will eliminate the “hook”
> by which certain systems perform needed authority flips.  But maybe those
> flips have mostly been made already.
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> What do you think?  Alternatively, should I qualify my Geoffrey even
> though the 400 for Geoffrey R. is the only conflict?
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> Thanks,
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> Pete Wilson
>
> Vanderbilt University
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