<div dir="ltr">Hi Catalogers,<div><br></div><div>There have been several suggestions about a potential Authorities session at the Evergreen Conference this year.
We are looking for volunteers to share their experience and help lead a conversation about Authorities at the conference (or at a future CWG meeting, depending upon your time/capacity).</div><div><br></div><div>There are two different ideas here:<br></div><div><br></div><div>1) Basic Introduction to Authorities -- how to get started and make these work for validating your bib records (there are several presentations from previous conferences that would be good to update)</div><div><br></div><div>2) Specific Authority Challenges -- looking at topics such as: handling "less-than-obvious" cross-references, adding sources other than the Library of Congress, and using a local thesaurus for alternative terminology where<span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> the established headings are divisive or non-inclusive</span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Please respond either to this message or to me directly if you are interested in working on this topic as a presentation.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Also, if you have questions about authorities or resources you are already using in your work with authorities, please share them!</span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></span></div><div>Thanks, as always,<br></div><div>Jennifer</div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> </span><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" 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="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)">Jennifer
Weston, MLIS<span></span></span></p>
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Manager</span><div><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%">Equinox Open Library Initiative</span><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%">phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) ext. 5574</span><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%">email: <span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:jennifer.weston@equinoxinitiative.org" target="_blank">jennifer.weston@equinoxinitiative.org</a></span></span><br></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">web: </span><u><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><a href="https://equinoxinitiative.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://EquinoxInitiative.org</span></a></span></u><br></span></span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>