Maxwell's Guide to Authority Work.

Authority work is the linchpin of the library catalog. As the author puts it, ''Without authority control, the burden is placed on the user to think of all the possible forms a cataloger might have used to give access in the catalog to a given author or subject.'' If a subject is...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Maxwell, Robert L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : ALA Editions, 2002.
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505 0 |a Acknowledgments; Glossary of Acronyms; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Standards Governing Authority Control; Chapter 3: Basic Authority Control Procedures; Chapter 4: Authority Control of Names; Chapter 5: Uniform Titles: General Information; Chapter 6: Uniform Titles: Particular Problems; Chapter 7: Series: General Information; Chapter 8: Series Authority Records; Chapter 9: Authority Control of Terms: Thesarus Building; Chapter 10: Authority Control of Terms: Subjects; Chapter 11: Authority Control of Terms: Genre/Form; Chapter 12: The Library and Beyond; Index. 
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