[yul-naco] death dates + bib maintenance

[Manon Theroux]

Someone asked the following:

>Am I correct in assuming that adding the death 
>date will require the updating of any personal 
>name fields in any and all bibliographic records 
>associated with a name that's had the death date 
>added?  That may become quite some amount of 
>work with some of our more prodigious authors or historical figures.

The answer is YES. Every time a death date is 
added to a NACO heading, all of the corresponding 
bib records in Orbis will need to be changed. We 
will follow our usual procedures (i.e. if fewer 
than 20 bibs need to be changed, fix them 
yourself. If more than 20 need to be changed, notify me).

We definitely don't want catalogers spending all 
of their time scouring newspaper obituaries and 
"cleaning up" headings! That is why we made the 
policy somewhat conservative as to when the death date could be added.

I do worry about what NACO catalogers at other 
institutions might be doing and whether we will 
be able to keep up with Orbis heading 
maintenance. But I guess we'll just do the best we can.

-Manon


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Manon Théroux
Authority Control Librarian
Catalog Department, SML, 2-8376 
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