<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">We've put off doing any Authority Control since migrating a number of years ago.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">I need to work out the pro/con of doing a new dump every few years with an authority control vendor or not updating what we have. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Our customers rarely (if ever) use (browse the catalog) which searches against the authority control data. They heavily use (basic search) and many times use (advanced search). But I'm sure the (see also) kind of authority links are heavily used.</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm wondering what resources other public libraries put towards authority control.</span><br></span></font></div><div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm also wondering how you find blind references in order to remove them.</span></span></font></div><div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></span></font></div><div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Looking forward to learning more where authority control is concerned.</span></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(112,48,160)">Sharon
Douglas</span></b><b><span style="color:windowtext"> - Automation Coordinator for Lake Agassiz Regional Library</span></b></span></font></p>
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5th St S • Moorhead, MN 56560 • 218-233-3757 ext 138 - <span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><a href="mailto:douglass@exchange.larl.org" target="_blank">douglass@gsuite.larl.org</a></span></span></b></span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>