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Authority Work

 

NACO

AMICUS
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/amicus/index-e.html
National Library of Canada's online catalog. Login required to access authority records [click box at bottom of page]

Blue and Yellow pages on NACO home page
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco/naco.html
LC Supplement Guidelines to the MARC21 Authority Format (a.k.a., Blue Pages) and LC Descriptive Cataloging Manual Z1 (a.k.a., Yellow Pages) are only available in .pdf format.

NACO
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco/naco.html
Name Authority Component of the PCC (NACO). NACO provides the means for libraries to submit name headings to the Library of Congress.

NACO BFM
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco/bfmguide.html
NACO Bibliographic File Maintenance. Guidelines for reporting NACO BFM

NACO FAQ
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco/nacocatfaq.html
NACO Frequently Asked Questions on creating Name Authority Records (NARs) for NACO http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco/utfaq.html
NACO Frequently Asked Questions on creating Uniform Titles

NACO Participant's Manual
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco/npm3rd.pdf

670 FAQ
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco/670faq.html
NACO FAQ on the 670 (Sources found) in name authority records

NACO/SACO examples citing the web
http://www.und.nodak.edu/dept/library/Departments/abc/NACOexmp.htm

NACO Normalization
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco/normrule.html
Authority File Comparison Rules; used by LC and its copy holdings partners for the loading of authorities.

NACO training
NACO Trainers: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco/trainers/trainershp.html NACO Trainees: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco/trainees.html

OCLC - report simple errors, typos, duplicate authority record problems
Email:  authfile@oclc.org

Rameau on NACO home page
http://rameau.bnf.fr/
RAMEAU (Répertoire d'autorité-matière encyclopédique et alphabétique unifié) est le langage d'indexation élaboré et utilisé par la Bibliothèque nationale de France, les bibliothèques universitaires, ainsi que de nombreuses autres bibliothèques de lecture publique ou de recherche. [French authorities]

Two Authority Records for One Person
  • Step 1.* Contact the author and find out his prefered form of his name. LC's policy is that no matter what fullest form there is, or how many are in one form or another, if the author says "I want it this way" that is how it should be done. Then you will change one authority record to match his request.
  • Step 2. You lock one record and change the form to the one requested. Add 670's from the other record. Add any other pertinent information.
  • Step 3. Add a 670 something like this: 670 Email from author, Dec. 17, 2002 $b (Author requests name be cited as Robert B. Silberman)
  • Step 4. Send me (ND Funnel Coordinator) an email with: Please delete record XXXX, and keep record YYYY - the "x" and "y" are the 010 from the authority records.
  • Step 5. In the email, when BFM is required, include a list of 010 's from all DLC bibs in OCLC that have the "wrong" form of the name. LC will change their bib records.
  • Step 6. Shelby (ND Funnel Coordinator) emails the NACO Funnel contact person with the information regarding which authority record to keep and which to delete and which bibs need BFM. The LC NACO person will fix the records at LC. That will work it's way through to OCLC's files.
  • Step 7. Notify OCLC of bib records that need changing, especially ones that are not DLC records. You can use 952 or use the online bibchange form and list the OCLC numbers. You don't need to tell OCLC about the authority record change - that is now automated from LC to OCLC. Wait to notify them about the bibs until the process of LC fixing records has made its way through to OCLC (you should see the wrong record go away)
  • *If the author is not someone we can contact (i.e. dead) there would have to be other problems like conflicts etc. that needed to be resolved to change a name, research in reference tools to find citations used in accepted reference tools, reviewing as many bibs as possible, etc. is required to document which is the correct name.

VIAF : Virtual International Authority File
http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/viaf/default.htm
A joint project with the Library of Congress and Die Deutsche Bibliothek. It virtually combines the name authority files of two institutions into a single name authority service.

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    Funnel

    Funnel FAQ
    http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco/funnelfaq.html

    Funnels and Funnel Coordinators
    NACO SACO

    Types of NACO Membership
    http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco/funres.html

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    SACO

    Subject Authority Cooperative Program (SACO)
    http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/saco/saco.html
    SACO provides a means for libraries to submit subject headings and classification numbers to the Library of Congress.

    Web Resources
    http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/saco/resources.html
    Library of Congress. PCC. Web Resources for SACO proposals

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    Classification

    LC Classification Proposal Form
    http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/bibco/classfaq.html#11

    053 request form
    http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/053/053prop.html Use a dollar sign ($) to represent a delimiter. Use cut-n-paste from a linked diacritics page to obtain correct diacritics format.

    Literary author browse instructions
    http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/litauthno.html

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    LC Announcements

    Authority data elements implementation
    http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/authimp.htmlCataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress

    Surname indicator
    http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/multsur.html
    Implementation of change in indicator value for multiple surnames in MARC21

    [from old catalog] BFM
    http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco/bfmfaq.html
    FAQ about headings labeled "from old catalog]" found in the LC Online Catalog and reporting of BFM

    040 $b
    http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/040subfieldb.html Subfield #b in 040 in authority and bibliographic records.

    040 language of cataloging
    http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/040bib.html LC guidelines for processing of copy cataloging for which the language of cataloging is not English

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