[DCRM-L] CERL thesaurus of place and personal names

[Robert Maxwell]

I can second that--it's a great thesaurus. I've used it extensively in doing NACO authority work and think it should be used routinely by people doing authority work needed for early materials.

Bob

Robert L. Maxwell
Special Collections and Ancient Languages Catalog Librarian
Genre/Form Authorities Librarian
6728 Harold B. Lee Library
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
(801)422-5568

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From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Randal Brandt
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 2:17 PM
To: dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu
Subject: [DCRM-L] CERL thesaurus of place and personal names

Both Elizabeth Robinson and Judy Kuhagen have recommended that the US rare
materials cataloging community be made aware of a new thesaurus of place
and personal names on the CERL website. Link below ...

Randy


>Randal, I sent the following notice to my catalogers. I am not sure if
>this is public knowledge already among BSCers, but if not, would you also
>share with them?
>
>I think it may have been featured at the Baltimore RBMS preconference (in
>a session on special collections union catalogs) along with other HPB stuff.
>
>Thanks.
>
>--Elizabeth
>
> >>> Elizabeth Robinson 12/17/2007 3:51:46 PM >>>
>Those of you working with early European imprints may want to bookmark
>this link (if you don't know about it already):
>
>http://www.cerl.org/web/en/resources/cerl_thesaurus/main
>
>A tip from Gunilla Jonsson via Judy Kuhagen. I worked with Gunilla and
>several others from mostly European libraries on the ISBD(A) revision.
>
>You may find the resource useful for some of your authority work.

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