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23. 7. 2024

Evaluation of the CONOR.SI authority file from cataloguers’ point of view in academic libraries

Urška Zupančič, Marija Petek

Authority control is an important part of cataloguing. The Slovene CONOR.SI authority file including authority records for individual and corporate authors, enables among others identification of authors. The purpose of the research was to find out cataloguers’ opinions on its usefulness, its advantages and disadvantages, and how creating authority records for corporate authors was practised. The survey was conducted as an online questionnaire and interview, 73 cataloguers from academic libraries participated. The results showed that the majority of surveyed cataloguers were satisfied with CONOR.SI.

31. 12. 2001

Cataloguing, COBISS

Novosti pri uvajanju normativne kontrole v COBISS

Marta Seljak

The paper describes the first steps in the introduction of the authority control for personal and corporate names, and editing of the CONOR, V5.1 authority database. It also gives an account on activities related to the preparation of the COBISS General List of Subject Headings.

31. 3. 1999

Cataloguing

Implementacija normativne kontrole v sistemu COBISS

Marta Seljak, Bojan Štok, Mitja Debeljak, Tadeja Brešar

This paper describes initial phases of the project on implementing authority control in the COBISS system: analysis of names and subject headings in the COBIB union database, generation of the CONOR prototype database and preparation of the working draft of COMARC/A, Format for Athority Data.