Margaret, Kerri, et al --
Kerri has analyzed the situation correctly. When the MoMA files note was added which gave the birthdate information, the cataloger could (should) have split off the performance artist from the writer on oil and gas supply.

As a NACO participant, I have now disambiguated the Kim Joneses and created a new record for the performance artist. LC's catalog has one bib record for another Kim Jones, a female singer based in Denver. For the moment, I'm not going there.

Sherman Clarke, NYU Libraries, [log in to unmask]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kerri A. Scannell" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, August 12, 2004 1:48 pm
Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] Name authority question

> Margaret and ARLIS-L'ers
> 
> I haven't looked at this record myself in the Authority File, but 
> if you 
> look at the Fixed Fields and check the code under "Name" (008/32) 
> this will 
> tell you if the name is a differentiated name or undifferentiated 
> name: a 
> for differentiated personal name and b for undifferentiated 
> personal 
> name.  It could be that no one was able to differentiate the two 
> people and 
> so the same name heading is used for both.  If you have further 
> information 
> that could help establish the difference between the two people, 
> then you 
> can contact LC or a NACO member to get this changed.
> 
> That's my best guess.  I'm fairly new in dealing with authorities, 
> so I 
> could be missing something else.  Anyone else?
> Kerri Scannell
> Fine Arts Technical Services Librarian
> University of Kentucky
> 
> At 11:55 AM 8/12/2004 -0400, Margaret Ericson wrote:
> >Hellow Collective ARLIS Wisdom.
> >
> >I am doing original cataloging for an item with an author entry 
> for the 
> >performance artist Kim Jones.
> >I am looking at the LC authority file and found this (below), 
> which to me 
> >looks very fishy. But you never know.
> >The artist was born in fact in San Bernardino California in 1944, 
> and was 
> >a Vietnam vet, but is this really the same guy who
> >authored Midterm Oil and Gas Supply.?
> >There is OCLC copy for Rat Piece which uses the entry, Jones, 
> Kim, 1944-
> >This seems to make more sense, but there is no authority record 
> with this 
> >date.
> >Is this a mistake in the LC authority file. It hardly seems 
> possible that 
> >the performance artist who created Rat Piece in 1976 was the same 
> person 
> >who authored Midterm Oil and Gas Supply for the GPO in 1978.
> >
> >Confused in Maine.
> >Margaret Ericson, Art and Music Librarian, Colby College.
> >
> >
> >    1  010     n  79080797
> >Ü   2  040     DLC ßc DLC ßd DLC
> >Ü   3  005     19980807140348.2
> >Ü   4  100 1   Jones, Kim
> >Ü   5  670     [Author of Midterm oil and gas supply ... ]
> >Ü   6  670     Everett, C. Midterm oil and gas supply modeling system
> >methodology description, 1978 (a.e.) ßb t.p. (Kim Jones, Division 
> of Oil and
> >Gas Analysis, Office of Energy Source Analysis)
> >Ü   7  670     [Author of Rat piece]
> >Ü   8  670     Rat piece, 1976: ßb t.p. (Kim Jones)
> >Ü   9  670     NNMoMA files, 4/16/98 ßb (Creator of Rat piece; 
> performance>artist; b. ca. 1944)
>

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