| Directory > Reference > Libraries > Library and Information Science > Technical Services > Cataloguing > Authority Control The Union List of Artist Names
The ULAN currently contains some 200,000 names representing approximately 100,000 individual
artists (or "creators," including performance artists, and decorative artists) and
architects, cumulated from nine participating Getty documentation projects. The entire ULAN is
available free of charge, allowing a search for artists or architects and retrieve their variant
names, biographical information, and bibliographic citations.
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/ulan/index.html
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Authority Control in the 21st Century
Conference proceedings of an invitational conference held by OCLC March 31 - April 1, 1996.
Includes full-text of the papers presented at the conference.
http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/da/ViewObject.jsp?objid=0000003520&reqid=354
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Catalog of Uncataloged Titles
Service that helps you locate information not usually cataloged in bibliographic sources that
may contain the information you need. View a record that includes contact information for the
publisher and cost.
http://www.sapphirepress.com/UNCAT/
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Authority Control: A Basic Glossary of Terms
A glossary of terms used when discussing authority control. Provided by staff at the University of
Buffalo Libraries.
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/ac/def.html
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Library of Congress Authorities
Includes subject, name, title and name/title authority records created by or for the Library of
Congress. Permits free downloading in MARC format.
http://authorities.loc.gov/
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Authority Tools for Audio-Visual Catalogers
Annotated list of online and print resources which have proven useful in performing authority
control for audiovisual materials.
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/olac/capc/authtools.html
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Web World of Authority Control
Bibliography listing that includes tools, thesauri, Library of Congress sites, articles, workshops,
journals, ALA committees, listservs, libraries, and vendors that deal with authority control or may
be helpful in establishing authorities. This list is an attempt to help Authority Control
Librarians and other librarians to do authority work easier and faster. Created and maintained by
subject authorities librarians at Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.
http://www.lib.byu.edu/dept/catalog/authority/
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ISBN Check
Form for checking International Standard Book Numbers for correct length, format, checksums and
check digits.
http://www.isbn-check.com/
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