On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Weinheimer Jim <j.weinheimer_at_aur.edu> wrote:
> Could you clarify this? Are you saying that library catalogs do not need any authority control just as in Google?
No, he's saying we have an authority record which knows all of the
terms for Nat Turner's Rebellion.
Why should the user know or care what the LCSH preferred term is? The
records should be indiscriminate because they are referring to an
authority.
What Tim is saying is that if the search is restricted to what appears
in the 650 tag then we have have completely forgone the advantages of
moving it from an index card to a computer.
-Ross.
Received on Tue May 05 2009 - 09:35:11 EDT