Authority files (Information retrieval)
Here are entered authority files that include both name and subject authority records, as well as works about such files.
See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.
Broader terms:Narrower terms:Used for:- Authority control (Information retrieval)
- Authority files (Cataloging)
- Authority records (Information retrieval)
- Authority work (Information retrieval)
- Library authority files
- Authority control
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Understanding MARC Authority Records: Machine-Readable Cataloging (c2004), by Library of Congress (HTML at loc.gov)
- NACO Participants' Manual (third edition, ca. 2005), by Library of Congress (PDF at loc.gov)
- List of Subject Headings for Small Libraries, Including Practical Suggestions for the Beginner in Subject Heading Work (fourth edition reprinted; New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1941), ed. by Minnie Earl Sears, contrib. by Isabel Stevenson Monro (page images at HathiTrust)
- List of Subject Headings for Small Libraries, Compiled From Lists Used in Nine Representative Small Libraries (third edition; New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1933), ed. by Minnie Earl Sears (page images at HathiTrust)
- List of Subject Headings for Small Libraries, Compiled From Lists Used in Nine Representative Small Libraries (second edition reprinted; New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1928), ed. by Minnie Earl Sears (page images at HathiTrust)
- Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore (5 volumes; Baltimore: Press of I. Friedenwald, 1883-1892), by Johns Hopkins University Peabody Institute Library
- Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882 (8 volumes, 1896-1905), by Johns Hopkins University Peabody Institute Library
- all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
- Part I (A-B): multiple formats at archive.org
- Part II (C-D): multiple formats at archive.org
- Part III (E-G): multiple formats at archive.org
- Part IV (H-K): multiple formats at archive.org
- Part V (L-M): multiple formats at archive.org
- Part VI (N-R): multiple formats at archive.org
- Part VII (S-T): multiple formats at archive.org
- Part VIII (U-Z): multiple formats at archive.org
- Water: A Subject Heading List (Archives Series Report #18; Berkeley: Water Resources Center, University of California, 1967), by Gerald J. Giefer and Water Resources Center Archives (Calif.) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies: Terminology for Art, Architecture, and Other Cultural Works (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2010), by Patricia Harpring (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
- Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies: Terminology for Art, Architecture, and Other Cultural Works (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2010), by Patricia Harpring (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
- Thesaurus for Graphic Materials, ed. by Elisabeth Betz Parker and Helena Zinkham
- Introduction to Art Image Access: Issues, Tools, Standards, and Strategies (Los Angeles: Getty Information Institute, c2002), ed. by Murtha Baca, contrib. by Patricia Harpring, Colum Hourihane, Sara Shatford Layne, and Christine L. Sundt (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
- Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Heads Concerning People (second edition; Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1993), by Sanford Berman (PDF files at sanfordberman.org)
- Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies: Terminology for Art, Architecture, and Other Cultural Works (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2010), by Patricia Harpring (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
- Introduction to Vocabularies: Enhancing Access to Cultural Heritage Information (Los Angeles: Getty Information Institute, c1998), by Elisa Lanzi (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
- Medical Subject Headings, by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) (partial serial archives)
- Medical Subject Headings, by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) (partial serial archives)
- Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Heads Concerning People (second edition; Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1993), by Sanford Berman (PDF files at sanfordberman.org)
- Water: A Subject Heading List (Archives Series Report #18; Berkeley: Water Resources Center, University of California, 1967), by Gerald J. Giefer and Water Resources Center Archives (Calif.) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Thesaurus for Graphic Materials, ed. by Elisabeth Betz Parker and Helena Zinkham
- Prejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Heads Concerning People (second edition; Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1993), by Sanford Berman (PDF files at sanfordberman.org)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings: Principles of Structure and Policies for Application (based on the 1990 edition), by Lois Mai Chan, contrib. by Library of Congress
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Computer files -- Law and legislation- Electronic Evidence (fourth edition; London: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 2017), ed. by Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)
- Introduction to Computer Programming (Tulsa, OK and Burlington, ON: Hayes, c1982), by Brian Reffin Smith, ed. by Lisa Watts, illust. by Graham Round and Martin Newton (PDF at Usborne and Google)
- Compute!'s Second Book of Atari (1982) (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)
- There is No Software, There are Just Services (Lüneberg: Meson Press, 2015), ed. by Irina Kaldrack and Martina Leeker (PDF with commentary at meson.press)
- Release 1.0 (1983-2006), ed. by Esther Dyson (full serial archives)
- Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing (electronic edition, revised 2003), by Philip Greenspun (HTML at greenspun.com)
- Database Backed Web Sites (electronic edition, 1997), by Philip Greenspun (HTML at greespun.com)
- Learning Data Science (c2023), by Sam Lau, Joseph Gonzalez, and Deborah Ann Nolan (illustrated HTML with commentary at learningds.org)
- R for Data Science (second edition, c2023), by Hadley Wickham, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, and Garrett Grolemund (illustraterd HTML with commentary in New Zealand)
- R for Data Science (first edition, c2017), by Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund (illustrated HTML with commentary in New Zealand)
- The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation (prepublication draft, 2017), by Trevor Owens (PDF with commentary at LISSA)
- Perspectives on Personal Digital Archiving (2013), ed. by National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (U.S.) (PDF at digitalpreservation.gov)
- A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation (Atlanta: Educopia Institute, 2010), ed. by Katherine Skinner and Matt Schultz (PDF with commentary at metaarchive.org)
- Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Information (final report of the BRTF; 2010), by Abby Smith Rumsey and Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access (PDF at sdsc.edu)
- Sustaining the Digital Investment: Issues and Challenges of Economically Sustainable Digital Preservation (interim report of the BRTF; 2008), by Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access (PDF at sdsc.edu)
- Digital Preservation and Permanent Access to Scientific Information: The State of the Practice (2004), by Gail M. Hodge and Evelyn Frangakis (PDF at dtic.mil)
- Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice (2000), by Alan S. Morrison, Michael Popham, and Karen Wikander (HTML in the UK)
- Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access (2000), ed. by Maxine K. Sitts (PDF at nedcc.org)
- PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata (version 2.1 or later, with supplementary material; v2.1 was published 2011) (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)
- Understanding PREMIS (c2009), by Priscilla Caplan (PDF at loc.gov)
- Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries (c2008), ed. by Katherine Skinner and Martin Halbert (PDF with commentary at unt.edu)
- Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections: Foundations for Technical Standards (second edition, 2006), by Franziska S. Frey and James M. Reilly (PDF at imagepermanenceinstitute.org)
- After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2024), by Trevor Owens (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis (Cambridge, UK: OpenBook Publishers, c2023), by Anne Baillot (PDF files with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), ed. by Maja Kominko (multiple formats with audio and commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization: A White Paper (2008), by Oya Y. Rieger (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)
- Digital Images in Education: Realising the Vision (London: JISC Collections, 2007), ed. by Leona Carpenter and Caren Milloy (PDF files with commentary at JISC Collections)
- Preserving Government Information: Past, Present and Future (San Diego and San Francisco: FreeGovInfo Press, 2025), by James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs (PDF and Epub with commentary at freegovinfo.info)
- Data Information Literacy: Librarians, Data, and the Education of a New Generation of Researchers (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2015), ed. by Jake Carlson and Lisa Johnston (PDF with commentary at Purdue)
- Digitization in the Real World: Lessons Learned From Small and Medium-Sized Digitization Projects (New York: Metropolitan New York Library Council, c2010), ed. by Kwong Bor Ng and Jason Kucsma (multiple formats at archive.org)
- E-Journal Archiving Metes and Bounds: A Survey of the Landscape (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2006), by Anne R. Kenney, Richard Entlich, Peter B. Hirtle, Nancy Y. McGovern, and Ellie L. Buckley (PDF at clir.org)
- The NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials, by University of Glasgow Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute and National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (HTML at NYU)
- Moving Theory Into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives (Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, c2000), ed. by Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Digital Libraries: A Vision for the 21st Century: A Festschrift in Honor of Wendy Lougee on the Occasion of Her Departure From the University of Michigan, ed. by Patricia Hodges, Mark Sandler, Maria Bonn, and W. John Price-Wilkin (HTML at Michigan)
More items available under broader and related terms at left.