Authority Control: Why It Matters

Monday, November 1, 1999
Hogan Campus Center, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

Sponsored by the NELINET Cataloging and Technical Services Advisory Committee

9:00 a.m.	Introductions
9:15 a.m.	Authority Control: What It Is and Why It Matters / Summary Rick J. Block, Head, Original and Special Materials Cataloging, Columbia University
10:45 a.m.	Authority Control in the Real World Authority Control at Yale University with OCLC Martha Conway, Yale University Authority Control in Vermont Public Libraries Lorraine Lanius, Vermont Department of Libraries Authority Control at The Minuteman Library Network with LTI Allison Powers, Minuteman Library Network (Framingham, Massachusetts)
1:00 p.m.	Keynote Speaker Authority Control: Where It's Been and Where It's Going / Summary Arlene Taylor, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh (Powerpoint)
2:15 p.m.	Where Angels Fear to Tread? Form/Genre Authority Control / Summary David Miller, Curry College SACO and NACO in Authority Control / Summary Ann Caldwell and Dominique Coulombe, Brown University Question Authority--NOT! Reference Implications of Authority Control / Summary Dawn Thistle, Assumption College; and Cecilia Piccolo Tittemore, Dartmouth College Vended Authority Control: Issues and Options Martha Conway and Rebecca Mugridge, Yale University
3:00 p.m.	Cooperative Online Resource Catalog (CORC): A New Vision of Authority Control / Summary Bradley C. Watson, Consulting Systems Analyst, CORC Project Division, OCLC Elizabeth Smallidge, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory William Ghezzi, Dartmouth College