Name Authority Control Paradigm Shift in the Network Environment

The purpose of this chapter is to give an international perspective and overview of the theory, standardization processes and following practices in the field of authority control, with particular view on the name authority control since the 1960s to the present. In the focus of interest of this chapter is paradigm shift in the field, and the possibilities of semantic web technologies in meeting library users’ needs, as well as librarians’ tasks to produce tools convenient to the user in the network environment.