authority control

American  

noun

Library Science.

1. the establishment and maintainance of consistent forms of terms, as of names, subjects, and titles, to be used as headings in bibliographic records.

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Example Sentences

In a statement, Hull City Council confirmed that Mr Hardie was also employed at Newland School for Girls in 2014 and 2015 while under local authority control, before the school became an academy in 2017.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2025

Such takeovers can give a judicially appointed authority control over just some parts of jail management or strip away control from local officials entirely.

From New York Times • May 23, 2022

Something similar happened to California in 2006, when a federal judge gave an outside authority control over the mental health system in its state prisons.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2020

His enthusiasm in government for giving schools freedom from local authority control, the academies programme, provoked scepticism from some Labour colleagues, but praise from his opponents.

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2015

The degree of authority, control or administration to be exercised by the mandatory shall, if not previously agreed upon by the members of the League, be explicitly defined in each case by the Council.

From Woodrow Wilson's Administration and Achievements by Lord, Frank B.