Brenda,
LCSH should not be used as a source for death dates. Their policy is not to
go into a record to add a death date unless they have to go into the record
for some other reason. Thus they might add both dates if the person was not
alive at the time they create the record, but they do not routinely go back
in to add death dates.
Janette Rozene
Head of Cataloging
FIT
>From: Brenda <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY DISCUSSION LIST <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: LCSH - Updates
>Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 09:25:13 -0400 (EDT)
>
>Recently, I have been searching LCSH to update life dates for various
>filmmakers, set designers, etc. I have been surprised and disappointed that
>so many entries are not up to date, eg. Alfred Hitchcock, 1889-. I have had
>better luck searching biography.com for the info I need.
>
>Is there some update site for LCSH I don't know about?
>
>Brenda MacEachern, Slide Curator
>Richard & Beryl Ivey Visual Resources Library
>Visual Arts Department
>University of Western Ontario
>London, Ontario
>
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