Maxwell's Guide to Authority Work

by Robert L. Maxwell

From one of the preeminent experts in the field, this is the step-by-step guide for ensuring that your library and staff are creating and maintaining authority records with the end user in mind. Helpful illustrations identify the key characteristics of good authority records, common acronyms are defined, and cross-references throughout reinforce materials. Step-by-step, you'll learn how to: - From and record uniform access points- Keep thorough and accurate records- Share information in an environment of international databases and cooperative cataloging

Genres: Library Science

296 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2002

About the author

Robert L. Maxwell is a senior librarian at the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah, USA, where he is chair of the Special Collections and Metadata Catalog Department. He is the author of books on cataloging, including FRBR: A Guide for the Perplexed (Chicago: American Library Association, 2008); Maxwell’s Guide to Authority Work (Chicago: ALA, 2002), which won the 2002 Highsmith Library Literature Award; and Maxwell’s Handbook for AACR2 (Chicago: ALA, 2004). He has taught cataloging at Brigham Young University and the University of Arizona, and is a voting member of ALA’s Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access, the ALA body responsible for developing official ALA positions on AACR2 and RDA. In addition to an MLS from the University of Arizona, he holds a JD from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in classical languages and literatures from the University of Toronto.

Reviews

[Rusty del Norte]

Good if your library uses MARC21 and AACR2 bibliographic records. If your library uses RDA with MARC, it can still have some value. If your library uses newer bibliographic standards like BIBFRAME, XML, or MODS instead of MARC, then this work would not be as helpful.