| Sumario: | This cautionary tale outlines how a librarian with an understanding of and respect for cataloging processes was the perfect candidate to be duped by a false attribution in a bibliographic record. In the process of compiling a list of compositions attributed to Alma Mahler for my dissertation, I encountered a handful of works not yet addressed in the scholarship on her compositional work. Despite numerous red flags, and much to my detriment, I invested a great deal in one of these unqualified and unsubstantiated attributions that turned out to be false. In the wake of this false attribution, I have had to come to terms with how my professional identity as librarian has worked to my advantage and detriment as a researcher. I leverage the ACRL frames "Authority is Constructed and Contextual" and "Scholarship as Conversation" to explore this tension.
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