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	Catalog of Uncataloged Titles URL: http://www.sapphirepress.com/UNCAT/ ODP description: Service that helps you locate information not usually cataloged in bibliographic sources that may contain the information you need. View a record that includes contact information for the publisher and cost. Page title: UNCAT
	ISBN Check URL: http://www.isbn-check.com/ ODP description: Form for checking International Standard Book Numbers for correct length, format, checksums and check digits. Page title: ISBN check - a site for checking ISBNs and searching for the correct ISBNs of books based on faulty ISBNs Page description: An online form which checks an International Standard Book Number for correct format/checksum and offers correct alternatives for incorrect ISBNs.
	The Union List of Artist Names URL: http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/ulan/index.html ODP description: The ULAN currently contains some 200,000 names representing approximately 100,000 individual artists (or "creators," including performance artists, and decorative artists) and architects, cumulated from nine participating Getty documentation projects. The entire ULAN is available free of charge, allowing a search for artists or architects and retrieve their variant names, biographical information, and bibliographic citations. Page title: Getty Union List of Artist Names (Research at the Getty)
	Authority Tools for Audio-Visual Catalogers URL: http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/olac/capc/authtools.html ODP description: Annotated list of online and print resources which have proven useful in performing authority control for audiovisual materials. Page title: Authority Tools for Audiovisual and Music Catalogers: An Annotated List of Useful Resources
	Authority Control in the 21st Century URL: http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/da/ViewObject.jsp?objid=0000003520 ODP description: Conference proceedings of an invitational conference held by OCLC March 31 - April 1, 1996. Includes full-text of the papers presented at the conference.
	Authority Control: A Basic Glossary of Terms URL: http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/ac/def.html ODP description: A glossary of terms used when discussing authority control. Provided by staff at the University of Buffalo Libraries. Page title: Authority Control: Definitions
	Library of Congress Authorities URL: http://authorities.loc.gov/ ODP description: Includes subject, name, title and name/title authority records created by or for the Library of Congress. Permits free downloading in MARC format. Page title: Library of Congress Authorities (Search for Name, Subject, Title and Name/Title) Page description: The Library of Congress Authority file includes subject, name, title and name/title authority records created by or for the Library of Congress.
	Web World of Authority Control URL: http://net.lib.byu.edu/~catalog/catalogwebsite/authority/ ODP description: Bibliography listing that includes tools, thesauri, Library of Congress sites, articles, workshops, journals, ALA committees, listservs, libraries, and vendors that deal with authority control or may be helpful in establishing authorities. This list is an attempt to help Authority Control Librarians and other librarians to do authority work easier and faster. Created and maintained by subject authorities librarians at Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University. Page title: WEB WORLD OF AUTHORITY CONTROL