I notice with the flood of Phase 2 authority records that there are a number of preferred access points (used to be uniform titles) of the form Works. Selections. English. date, where the date does not conform to the date in my catalog for the particular item (embodying a work).
I have been wondering how to handle these. 1. 240 Works Selections English 1993 245 Antonio Gramsci : pre-prison writings 260 |c1994 where the 240 matches the authority record or 2. 240 Works. Selections. English. 1994 245 Antonio Gramsci : pre-prison writings 260 |c1994 where I have to create a new authority record (yuck) or edit the one sent from LC/NACO (yucker) or just leave the mismatch as it is (yuckest) I have seen enough dates in authority records that came from CIP or eCIP and are not accurate when compared to the piece in hand to have very little doubt where the root of the problem is. The long term solution is to change over to unchanging numeric identifiers with varying forms of display (as we all know), but before we reach Nirvana, what do we do? Any thoughts? -- Adger Williams Colgate University Library 315-228-7310 awilli...@colgate.edu
