ITEM DESCRIPTION IN LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES UND MUSEUMS – RESULTS OF A SURVEY

Abstract

The results presented in the Project undertaken in the university course "Library and Information Studies" at the Austrian National Library show the status quo in the Austrian libraries, archives and museums (BAM) regarding the practice of item description and the use of controlled vocabularies, or rather of Integrated Authority File (GND). In the course of the Project we were able to obtain the most current data on the kinds of controlled vocabularies used in the BAM institutions as well as information about the exchange of metadata between different institutions.