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Authority Control in the 21st Century:

An Invitational Conference

Program of Events

Sunday, March 31, 1996

• Introduction/Session I
• Session II
• Session III

Monday, April 1, 1996

• Session IV
• Session V

9:00 - 10:00

• Breakfast
• Welcome/Introduction
  • Ed O'Neill - OCLC

Session I

10:00 - 10:40

• Access Standards and Retrieval
  • Jennifer Younger - The Ohio State University
• Authority Control Profile of a Large Academic Research Library Database
  • Mary Ann Itoga, John Attig, and Christine Avery - Pennsylvania State University

10:45 - 11:00

• Break

11:00 - 11:20

• Decision-Making in Authority Control
  • Paul Jack Weiss - University of New Mexico
  • Dee Andy Michel - University of Wisconsin, Madison

11:20 - 11:40

• Between Control and Chaos: An Ethical Perspective on Authority Control
  • Hope A. Olson - University of Alberta

11:40 - 12:00

• Discussion

12:00 - 1:00

• Lunch

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Session II

1:00 - 1:20

• Authority Control & International Standard Authority Data Number: Need for the International Cooperation
  • Mirna Willer - National and University Library (Croatia)

1:20 - 1:40

• Authority Work and Control in Germany
  • Monika Muennich - Universitaetsbibliothek Heidelberg

1:40 - 2:00

• International Shared Resource File
  • Barbara Tillett - Library of Congress

2:00 - 2:30

• Discussion

2:30 - 2:40

• Break

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Session III

2:40 - 3:00

• Report on a Project to Review Non-match Name Reports from an Authority Control Vendor
  • John Schalow and Arlene Klair - University of Maryland

3:00 - 3:20

• Vendor-assisted Authority Control: The First Year in the Life of a Notification Service for Changed Authority Records
  • Noelle Van Pulis - The Ohio State University

3:20 - 3:40

• Practicalities of Online Authority Maintenance: Based on the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries Experience
  • Agnes M. Grady - University of Tennessee

3:40 - 4:00

• Authority Control from a Relational Database Perspective: Entity-Relationship Diagramming and SQL Programming for an Online Library System Authority Control Module
  • Nathan D.M. Robertson - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

4:00 - 4:20

• Demonstration of Authority Control Software
  • Gary L. Strawn - Northwestern University

4:20 - 4:40

• Discussion

4:40 - 6:00

• Free Time

6:00 - 8:00

• Cocktails, Dinner, and Dessert

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Session IV

8:15 - 9:00

• Breakfast

9:00 - 9:20

• Access Control Records: Prospects and Challenges
  • Linda Barnhart - University of California, San Diego

9:20 - 9:40

• The Music Thesaurus: A Faceted Approach to LCSH
  • Harriette Hemmasi - Rutgers University

9:40 - 10:00

• Feasibility of a Computer-Generated Subject Validation File Based on Frequency of Occurrence of Assigned Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • Lois Mai Chan - University of Kentucky
  • Diane Vizine-Goetz - OCLC

10:00 - 10:20

• Discussion

10:20 - 10:40

• Break

10:40 - 11:00

• Coping with Geographic Names Changes in an Authority File
  • Hester Marais - University of South Africa

11:00 - 11:20

• Identifying Personal Name Headings with Cross References: A Study to Measure the Effectiveness of Selective Authority Control in a Public Library Database
  • Ruth Bogan - Cooperative Computer Services

11:20 - 11:40

• Man, Machine, and Authority Control: A New Relationship
  • Ed O'Neill - OCLC

11:40 - 12:00

• Characteristics of Member Established Headings in the OCLC Database
  • Karen Calhoun - OCLC

12:00 - 12:30

• Discussion

12:30 - 1:10

• Lunch

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Session V

1:10 - 1:30

• Traced and Untraced, Controlled & Uncontrolled: The Next Frontier?
  • Michael Kaplan - Harvard University

1:30 - 1:50

• The Dewey Decimal Classification's Evolving Role as a Multilingual, Multithesaural Authority Control System
  • Joan S. Mitchell - OCLC Forest Press

1:50 - 2:10

• References vs. Added Entries
  • Elaine Svenonius - University of Maryland and University of California, Los Angeles

2:10 - 2:20

• Break

2:20 - 2:40

• Authority Control for the 21st Century: Toward a New Paradigm
  • Abraham J. Yu - University of California, Irvine

2:40 - 3:00

• Is There a Role of Subject Authority Control on the WWW?
  • Dee Andy Michel - University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Harriette Hemmasi - Rutgers University

3:00 - 3:20

• Beyond Online Catalogs: Authority Control in the Digital Library Environment
  • Karen M. Drabenstott - University of Michigan

3:20 - 3:40

• Discussion

3:40 -

• WRAP UP
  • Ed O'Neill - OCLC

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