<div><div dir="auto">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. </div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 4:43 PM Carolyn Phillips via Evergreen-catalogers <<a href="mailto:evergreen-catalogers@list.evergreen-ils.org">evergreen-catalogers@list.evergreen-ils.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
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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.)<br>
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<div>On 10/26/2021 4:22 PM, Sharon Douglas
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<pre style="font-family:monospace">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
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