Is the Current Way of Constructing Corporate Authority Records Still Useful?
Catalogers have been establishing corporate body name headings (and other entities) in their original language in the official form, as they appear most frequently on the title pages of publications for print publications, for many years. A random sample of corporate headings from the Library of Con...
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description | Catalogers have been establishing corporate body name headings (and other entities) in their original language in the official form, as they appear most frequently on the title pages of publications for print publications, for many years. A random sample of corporate headings from the Library of Congress Name Authority File created during 1998–2002 was searched on the Web via Google to find corporate Web pages. The purpose of this research is to begin to answer the question: Does the current way of constructing corporate authority records still help users find resources by and about corporate bodies in the online public access catalog in this Web-oriented environment? |
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spelling | doaj.art-59aae50f7b2942528e4bca6f8e5a09d62022-12-21T17:49:27ZengAmerican Library AssociationInformation Technology and Libraries0730-92952163-52262005-06-01242687610.6017/ital.v24i2.33673033Is the Current Way of Constructing Corporate Authority Records Still Useful?Qiang JinCatalogers have been establishing corporate body name headings (and other entities) in their original language in the official form, as they appear most frequently on the title pages of publications for print publications, for many years. A random sample of corporate headings from the Library of Congress Name Authority File created during 1998–2002 was searched on the Web via Google to find corporate Web pages. The purpose of this research is to begin to answer the question: Does the current way of constructing corporate authority records still help users find resources by and about corporate bodies in the online public access catalog in this Web-oriented environment?https://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/ital/article/view/3367 |
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title | Is the Current Way of Constructing Corporate Authority Records Still Useful? |
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title_short | Is the Current Way of Constructing Corporate Authority Records Still Useful? |
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