<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Janet,<div><br></div><div>I have missed your Friday posts!  I do think the subject of cross-references would make a good EG conference topic!</div><div>I've had several conversations recently related to using authorities to workaround missing cross-references and some of the challenges of that option.</div><div>Sharing the functionality you've already worked on with the browse search and exploring what other libraries are doing would be a valuable presentation.</div><div><br></div><div>- Jennifer W.</div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font size="1">Jennifer
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