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Management of Libraries and Information Centres

Notes Statement of justification: In addition to providing a heading and applicable references, a valid
authority record should also contain a reference to whatever sources of information the cataloguer
used to determine both the authorized and any deprecated forms of the name. This is usually done
by citing the title and publication date of the source, the location of the name on that source, and
the form in which it appears on that source.

Authority Control and Cooperative Cataloging
Before the advent of digital OPACs and the Internet, the work of creating and maintaining a
library’s authority files was generally carried out by individual cataloguing departments. This
meant that there could be a fair amount of disagreement among libraries over which form of a
given name was considered authoritative; so long as a library’s catalog was internally consistent,
differences between catalogs didn’t much matter.
However, even before the Internet revolutionized the way libraries go about cataloguing their
materials, catalogers began moving toward the establishment of cooperative consortia, such as
OCLC and RLIN in the United States, in which cataloguing departments from libraries all over the
world contributed their records to, and took their records from, a shared database. This development
gave rise to the need for national standards for authority work.

Did u know? In the United States, the primary organization for maintaining cataloguing
standards with respect to authority work operates under the aegis of the
Library of Congress, and is known as the Name Authority Cooperative
Program, or NACO.

2.3 Library Committee

Executive Committee
Meeting Time: Every two weeks (approximately)

Purpose: The Executive Committee will serve as the main governing body for the library’s
development. Its agenda and a brief account of its discussions will be routinely sent to all library
staff via the listserv.
The main functions and responsibilities of the Executive Committee include:
Accountability for the ongoing development of library services, programs, and proce-
dures
Adjudication of the library’s $16M budget, including preparation of annual capital and
operational requests
Steering the Planning Council, helping to set its agenda and following through with its
recommendations
Oversight of the forthcoming library fund raising initiative
Fostering communication with the rest of campus regarding the library’s goals and objec-
tives, as well as communication internal to Fondren Library.

Accessibility Committee

Meeting Time: As needed
Purpose: The committee stays abreast of accessibility issues affecting the library and trains library
staff members to be aware of and sensitive to the accessibility needs of our workers and patrons.

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