AUTHORITY FILE


Meaning of AUTHORITY FILE in English

Library Science.

a file, either on cards or in machine-readable format, in which decisions involving bibliographic records, particularly for form of entry, are recorded to establish a precedent or rule for subsequent decisions and to provide for consistency of entries.

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Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .