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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#5C4676" FACE="Calibri">This brings up interesting questions about what kind of priority we</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#5C4676" FACE="Calibri">should accord headings in these files.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#5C4676" FACE="Calibri">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#5C4676" FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#5C4676" FACE="Calibri">ve just looked at a few records, and find them a little hard to parse, partly because the heavy coding isn</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#5C4676" FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#5C4676" FACE="Calibri">t display-friendly, and partly because there seem</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#5C4676" FACE="Calibri">s</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#5C4676" FACE="Calibri"> to be scanty information about the person</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#5C4676" FACE="Calibri"> and justification for the heading.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#5C4676" FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#5C4676" FACE="Calibri">The lack of information in the records reminds me of pre-1984 LC authority records</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#5C4676" FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#5C4676" FACE="Calibri">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#5C4676" FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#5C4676" FACE="Calibri">d be very interested to hear what kind of experience any of you have using these international authority files</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#5C4676" FACE="Calibri">. I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#5C4676" FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#5C4676" FACE="Calibri">ll report on our experience, too.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Calibri">Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S.<BR>
Head of Cataloging<BR>
Folger Shakespeare Library<BR>
201 East Capitol St., S.E</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Calibri">.<BR>
Washington, D.C. 20003<BR>
202.675-0369<BR>
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