Why can't you have a cross reference?
Samuel Clemens
see also Mark Twain
That is standard indexing practice - you can have several entry points to
the same data. It makes it much more user friendly. I remember when I was in
Canterbury Municipal Library in Sydney I was looking for a Mini Minor
Manual. It was stored using LCSH under 'Leyland Mini'. So I put in an extra
entry in the authority file that cross referenced between 'common usage'
Mini Minor and 'LCSH' Leyland Mini Minor. It comes back to what the user is
going to search for. He needs to have all forms linked so he can search all
available content. The hard bit for librarians and indexers is to collate
all the variants and link them. Lateral thinking is needed here.
Dwight
> The "The Bard" entry here is a matter of authority control, not formatting
> of the name. Authority control is a big issue. If some of your records say
> Samuel Clemens and others say Mark Twain, no amount of twiddling with the
> indexing is going to help.
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