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

[Kate Moriarty]

That's good to hear. I use it all the time in authority records and it's 
so helpful and easy it almost feels like cheating.

-Kate

Robert Maxwell wrote:
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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.
>>     
>
> __________________________
> Randal Brandt
> Principal Cataloger
> The Bancroft Library
> (510) 643-2275
> rbrandt at library.berkeley.edu
> http://bancroft.berkeley.edu
>
>   


-- 
Kate S. Moriarty
Rare Book Catalog Librarian
Pius XII Memorial Library
Saint Louis University
3650 Lindell Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63108
Phone: (314) 977-3098
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