WHAT’S IN A NAME? ANNE WELSH LECTURER IN LIBRARY & INFORMATION STUDIES, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

Vanitas Vanitatem Mary Madden. Digital footprints: identity, search, social networking. Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2008. http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2008/Digital-Footprints.aspx

Who Am I?

Who Am I?

Who Am I?

Favourite Alter-egos [I am not an American hairdresser] http://www.annewelshsalon.com/

Favourite Alter-egos [I am not a pediatric MD] http://www.ucomparehealthcare.com/drs/washington/pediatrics/Welsh_Anne.html

Favourite Alter-egos [I am not an ASBO caseworker] http://www.lostamigos.net/logon/userDetails.asp?name=Anne+Welsh&user_id=94096

Favourite Alter-egos [I was not born in 1548] http://records.ancestry.com/Anne%20Welsh_records.ashx?pid=10234180

Who Am I? [Not quite as pretty as this girl] [Nor as pirate as this one]

“ My” composite persona Personas: an art installation, http://personas.media.mit.edu/personasWeb.html

This is me

A rough guide to those who have found me http://twittersheep.com/

“ Raindrops on roses …” (a few of my most find-worthy things)

Split personality? (E-LIS browse search by author) It’s as if this article were never written

But enough about me … John H. Bowman, author of the cataloguing textbook par excellence.

Clicking on “John H. Bowman” John H. Bowman, taxation expert??? What’s happened here?

Clicking on “Bowman, J.H.” in a standard library OPAC

Google Scholar Ophthalmologist Taxation and property expert Chemist? Inventor? CATALOGUER Inventor

Organisational names

“ Name Authority” Not a term users would use “ I can’t find the right Joe Bloggs.” “ I can’t find everything by Jane Smith : she’s been married and divorced twice, I think.” “ I want a bibliography of all my publications.” “ Why do I have to use different search terms on book and article databases?”

Not a term users would use

“ I can’t find the right Joe Bloggs.”

“ I can’t find everything by Jane Smith : she’s been married and divorced twice, I think.”

“ I want a bibliography of all my publications.”

“ Why do I have to use different search terms on book and article databases?”