New authorities blog

Collocate and Disambiguate: Currents in authority control and authority data, a new blog on authority control. It seems to be off to a good start (and I love the name!)

library database typos

ok, I know I’ve mentioned this one already, but for those of you who are interested in the typos group, the link is here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libtypos-L/

and here’s a sample of possible typos:
Adadem* ; Bpres* ; Distrub* ; Everday ; Intergrat* ;
Ot-the ; Portuges* ; Psued*

the * of course is for truncation, so that you retrieve all misspellings within the stem. Do you think databases do not have typos? yeah, right. Who do you think inputs those records? really smart robots?

listserv about library typos

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libtypos-L/

now really, you know you want to know.

and just in case you can’t get enough of this kind of stuff:
a whole website about library catalog typos: