[Evergreen-catalogers] should we spend money on authority control?

[Carolyn Phillips]

I have been working here since December 2009 and we have not had 
authority control work done on our catalog by an outside company since 
I've been here.  Our IS department has done at least one thing to update 
authorities, which was changing "cookery" to "cooking." (We are 
upgrading to 3.7 November 7.)

*Carolyn Phillips*
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Grand Rapids Public Library | Celebrating 150 Years 
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Main Library | 111 Library St NE | 49503
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On 10/26/2021 4:22 PM, Sharon Douglas via Evergreen-catalogers wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> It's been over 10 years since we last had authority control work done
> on our database.
> I'm not sure it's worth spending money on doing it again.
> Wondering how many public libraries out there have this done once in a
> while, and/or keep up with it?
>
> We are on version 3.3.4, will probably move to 3.7 early next year.
>
> Can't decide what value we would get out of spending $13,000 when it
> appears only the browsing function utilizes authority files.
>
> Seriously interested in others opinions!
>
> Sharon Douglas
> Automation Coordinator
> douglass at gsuite.larl.org
> 218-233-3757 ext. 138
>
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