Re: Future of authority control?

I'm not sure it's our job to tell people how to enter things in bibliographies, or that everyone enters things in bibliographies the same way (that catalogers can predict in advance). But if it's decided that it is our job, and it is realistic to do so, it's certainly not incompatible with the

Direct vs. inverted display of names

Jonathan said: I'm not sure it's our job to tell people how to enter things in bibliographies ,,, If it is the job of academic libraries to support research, then certainly how to cite an item is relevant for doctoral thesis writers and faculty learned journal article writers. If the data

Re: Direct vs. inverted display of names

This is silly: It is not direct _vs._ inverted; it's direct _and_ inverted. Identifying the component elements of a name means those elements can be automatically manipulated for a variety of useful purposes (including displays in direct and inverted order). Bibliographical software can

Re: Direct vs. inverted display of names

Ed Jones said: This is silly: It is not direct _vs._ inverted; it's direct _and_ inverted. Identifying the component elements of a name means those elements can be automatically manipulated for a variety of useful purposes (including displays in direct and inverted order). What useful