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

[Kate Coleman]

I agree with Mary. While our consortium does use an authority management
company, I wish Evergreen authority capabilities were better. Validation
works weirdly, cross referencing doesn't actually cross, and I'm just
disappointed tbh. However, I am thankful we do have the service and remain
hopeful for improvements with EG authorities. When those improvements DO
come, our catalog will be ready for it because of our authority company.
I'll be the first to admit that while I'm unhappy, I haven't spent a lot of
time researching how to make it better, making launchpad bugs, or being a
squeaky wheel.


Kate Coleman, MLIS
Technical Services Manager, Jefferson County Library
Missouri Evergreen Consortium
5678 State Rd. PP
High Ridge, MO 63049
636-677-8689
Fax: 636--677-1769
kcoleman at jeffcolib.org

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On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 6:52 PM Mary Llewellyn via Evergreen-catalogers <
evergreen-catalogers at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:

> We haven’t had authority control done since our last ILS. We’re not sure
> the public usage would justify the expense since they mostly use the
> keyword search and you need to browse to see cross references. I would like
> to see developments that all KW searches to touch the authorities.
>
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 4:43 PM Carolyn Phillips via Evergreen-catalogers <
> evergreen-catalogers at list.evergreen-ils.org> wrote:
>
>> 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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>> 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 Coordinatordouglass at gsuite.larl.org
>> 218-233-3757 ext. 138
>>
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