Re: Series authority maintenance (was Subject costs)

From: MULLEN Allen <Allen.MULLEN_at_nyob> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 09:49:09 -0700 To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu

I'm speaking in context of series only, since that is a present and real
need.  I encourage the ongoing discussion of LCSH maintenance but maybe
the tag lines can differentiate these.
Allen

>-----Original Message-----
>From: MULLEN Allen
>Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 9:45 AM
>To: 'Next generation catalogs for libraries'
>Subject: RE: [NGC4LIB] Authority maintenance (was Subject costs)
>
>Just wanted to briefly respond to a brief portion of Tim's last post:
>
>>Using peer-to-peer here strikes me as a technical solution to
>a social
>>and legal problem.
>
>Social problem is solved if libraries participate and what is
>produced has ready value.  I'm unaware of a legal problem -
>creating an independent, open-source and freely available
>authority file based on MARC21 for Authority should, by virtue
>of being based on the intellectual content governed by LC, be
>public domain.
>
>Allen