Karen Miller works at Northwestern University where an authorities librarian
has been maintaining, to the dot, the authority related records (headings,
subdivisions, encoding, etc.) for over 20 years. If a cataloger there makes
a mistake, that will be fixed by the refined set of procedures run
consistently on their bibliographic vis-a-vis authorities files. There is no
other such institution catalog in the US. LC have often invited that
authorities librarian to come fix their collection as well.

Bill, which new evidence have you found for almost rupture or depression
regarding reflection on geographic names?

The fact AUTOCAT librarians started to assist our discussions is in fact
grounds for rapture (pun intended) as we improve analysis, *Ya'aqov*


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*On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Bill Dueber <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> *That made me laugh so hard I almost ruptured something.
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> Thank you so much for such a complete (please, god, tell me
> it's complete...) explanation. It's a little depressing, but at least now I
> now why I'm depressed :-)
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> Bill Dueber
> Library Systems Programmer
> University of Michigan Library
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