Benchmarking Vended Authority Control Practices in ARL Libraries. Issue 4 (2nd October 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mugridge, Rebecca L.; Nous, Rebecca; Poehlmann, Nancy; West, Wendy
• Is Part Of: Technical services quarterly. Volume 35:Issue 4(2018)
• Page Start: 323
• Page End: 337
• Publication Date: 2018-10-02
• Subjects: Outsourcing -- authority control -- vendors -- catalog maintenance -- cataloging; Technical services (Libraries) -- Technological innovations -- Periodicals; Technical services (Libraries) -- Automation -- Periodicals; Library science -- Technological innovations -- Periodicals; 025.0202854
• DOI: 10.1080/07317131.2018.1509432
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0731-7131

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article presents the results of a survey designed to benchmark the use of vendors to support authority control activities in Association of Research Libraries member libraries. Such activities include updating authority or bibliographic records, sourcing authority records, participation in cooperative cataloging efforts, and more. The survey investigated whether and how responding libraries used vendors to create and maintain an authority file and process current cataloging records. The survey gathered demographic and other information about the libraries, and the authors sought to identify trends and correlations between these and other factors.