摘要：In 2010 I wrote for both Update and C&I about the authority control project we carried out at the London Schoolof Economics, concluding that, 'Although the project [had] been time-consuming, it [was] worthwhile. Our catalogue is now more consistent and has fewer errors, making retrieval more straightforward for users. In a librarythis size the catalogue is the primary way in which users identify our holdings. Our library catalogue continuesto get a high score on the student satisfaction survey which shows that the hours put into this project have beenfruitful.'1 The importance of authority control is well recognised in the bibliographic community. As MichaelGorman says, 'We cannot have real library service without a bibliographic architecture, and we cannot havethat bibliographic architecture without authority control'2, so with that in mind our efforts on authority controlwork at LSE did not cease with the end of our initial project.
