Applied Authority Control

Authority control is a concept that encompasses the many activities that catalogers undertake to clarify the terms used to provide access to resources. We apply …

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Amy Hitchner

Introduction to Authority Control

Authority Control is a foundational concept in cataloging and bibliographic access. The goal of authority control is to improve precision and recall in searching so …

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Amy Hitchner

MARC Control Fields

Control fields are the group of coded fields that appear like strings of characters at the top of a MARC Record. For many new and …

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Amy Hitchner