August 03, 2007
PERSNAME-L Notification List Examines Personal Names Issues
Jay Shorten (University of Oklahoma) and Ian Fairclough (Marion, Ohio, Public Library) have set up an electronic notification list for issues about personal names in bibliographic and authority records. The list, PERSNAME-L, will interest those concerned with the accuracy of name headings in bibliographic databases. Corporate names are beyond the scope of this new list.
If you find a personal name heading that has been inappropriately assigned or wrongly input, you may report these on PERSNAME-L so that others working with the same affected record might be advised, and make appropriate corrections locally.
Please keep in mind that such mistakes should first be reported to the appropriate agency responsible for the record in question, in accordance with that agency's own policies. For example, errors in WorldCat bibliographic records should be reported to OCLC by email to bibchange@oclc.org or by one of the methods available in the OCLC Connexion interfaces. Errors in Library of Congress records may be e-mailed to cpso@loc.gov.
PERSNAME-L is intended for announcements rather than discussion. To insure that subscribers receive only pertinent material, PERSNAME-L will be moderated and only those messages which are deemed appropriate will be approved.
To subscribe to PERSNAME-L, please go to lists.ou.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=PERSNAME-L and click on Join or leave the list (or change settings).
Alternatively, you may send a message to mailto:LISTSERV@OU.EDU with the words SUBSCRIBE PERSNAME-L followed by a forename and surname.
PERSNAME-L has no formal connection with OCLC, the Library of Congress or the NACO (Name Authority Cooperative) project.
