Training+of+cataloguers,+Authority+control

=Authority control=

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*Name authority
In order to make author searching easy we enter all items published by an author under a standard way of spelling the name, which can sometimes include dates of birth or death, and other identifying features to distinguish this author from another with the same name.

Our souce for such standardised name headings is the Library of Congress [|Name Authority File].

An interesting development in the field of authority control is the [|WorldCat Identities] project. This is aimed at helping users of web 2.0 features, for example sites like [|last.fm], to clearly identify all items accredited to a particular author/composer etc..

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