Mr. Bratton joined the Jacob Burns Law Library staff in 2006 as the cataloging librarian. Prior to this, he served as a cataloging librarian at the University of Maryland Libraries, where he earned enhance status with OCLC and independent status in the Library of Congress’ Name Authority Cooperative Program. Having enhance and independent status allowed Mr. Bratton to edit and improve bibliographic master records in OCLC’s Union Catalog and contribute (without review) authority records to the Library of Congress Authority File. Since 2003, he has been editor of Authority Tools for Audiovisual and Music Catalogers.