Quoting "Gary L. Strawn" <mrsm...@northwestern.edu>:
Something different is seen when an institution accidentally creates
a record for an entity already represented by an existing authority
record. Sometimes the institution creates identical records one
after the other, sometimes the duplication is harder to explain.
But when the institution realizes the error, instead of reporting
the duplicate for deletion it changes the second record to represent
some completely different entity. In this case the linking number
is the same but the entity it represents is different.
You know how we hate it when publishers re-use ISBNs and therefore
make a mess for us? This is the same thing. It's very important that
we teach people some basic concepts that will help them avoid these
kinds of mistakes. If nothing else, this shows us that our library
education (formal or informal) is lacking. We teach people the details
of the cataloging code but not much (definitely not enough) about data
management, and the latter is part of our job today.
kc
Gary L. Strawn, Authorities Librarian, etc.
Northwestern University Library, 1970 Campus Drive, Evanston IL 60208-2300
e-mail: mrsm...@northwestern.edu voice: 847/491-2788<--now even
newer! fax: 847/491-8306
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