LITA/ALCTS CCS Authority Control Interest Group - 2006 Annual Program Presentations

PROGRAM: Questioning Authorities: Adapting Authority Control to the Changing Needs of Library Users

Louise Spiteri (Associate Professor, School of Information Management, Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University):
The Use of Collaborative Tagging in Public Library Catalogues (PowerPoint)

Ross Singer (Application Developer, Library and Information Center, Georgia Institute of Technology):
Socially inept?: Shoehorning tags on a library (PowerPoint)

Susan Chun (General Manager, Collections Information Planning, Metropolitan Museum of Art):
Ms. Chun was unable to attend the program. A link to the presentation she would have given on "steve: The Art Museum Social Tagging Project" will be provided here as soon as it becomes available.

Beacher Wiggins (Director for Acquisitions & Bibliographic Access, Library of Congress):
Mr. Wiggins provided an update on various issues relating to authority control at the Library of Congress, including their recent series authority record decision.

John Reese (MARS Authority Control Product Manager, Backstage Library Works) and Manon Théroux (Authority Control Librarian, Yale University Library):
Vernacular Fields Synchronized with Romanized Fields Using MARS (PowerPoint)