Presentation at Cilip Cataloguing & Indexing Group's Name Authority workshop, A. Rose, by any other name, 23 October 2009.

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

2. 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

3. Who Am I?

4. Who Am I?

5. Who Am I?

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. This is me

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

20. Organisational names