Vinh-The Lam
(Published in Cataloging & classification quarterly, v. 32, no. 4, 2001, p. 53-69)
ABSTRACT
Authority
Control (AC) is an important cataloging function aimed at achieving catalog
consistency. It is very time-consuming
and labor-intensive. During the 1990s,
many North American academic libraries, under budgetary constraints, have tried
to outsource AC activities. The
Cataloging Department of the University of Saskatchewan Libraries (USL)
outsourced its AC activities to the Library Technology Inc. (LTI), a United States-based
AC processing vendor. This paper
summarizes the experiences gained by USL in this AC project: the
decision-making process in the selection of LTI; pre- and post-database
clean-up by LTI; and, the current AC activities.
