PCC Resources for
Through this program, participants contribute authority records for agents, places, works, and expressions to the LC/NACO Authority File. Membership in NACO is open to individual institutions willing to support their staff through a process of training, review, and direct contributions of records to the LC/NACO Name Authority File.
Recent Documentation & Updates
- 05/04/2021: PCC Policy for Partial Compilations of Works by One Agent (PDF : 325 KB) Updated Aug. 22, 2024
- 04/30/2021: FAQ on Authorized Access Points for Collections of the Works of Individual Agents and Works of Unknown Responsibility that Purport to be by an Individual Agent (PDF : 1.28 MB) Created by the PCC Standing Committee on Standards, October 2020, updated May 2021
- 12/04/2020: NACO 024 Best Practices Guidelines (PDF : 939 KB) Created by the PCC URIs in MARC Pilot NACO subgroup
- 07/08/2020: NACO Participants' Manual 4th Edition [PDF : 1.00 MB] Revised and Updated for RDA by the PCC Standing Committee on Training, July 2020, with ongoing revisions
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Training
The PCC affords participants a full course of specialized NACO training and review leading to institutional independence in name authority work. This training is currently offered sequentially in segments that amount to a five day workshop. During the training, guidelines are discussed and expanded upon with an emphasis on building a consistent and predictable file in a collaborative environment.
- Learn more about the NACO Training Workshop
- Find a NACO Trainer in your area
- Cataloger's Learning Workshop (CLW)
- NACO Series Training Information
Learn more about NACO training
NACO Funnels
A NACO funnel project is a group of libraries that have joined together to contribute name authority records to the national authority file.
NACO Resources & Forms
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Join NACO
NACO partners are global leaders in uniquely identifying authorized names in international databases.
Meetings & Events
Authority Control FAQs
- Authors and Creators - created by the PCC Standing Committee on Training, 2022-02 (PDF : 1.02 MB)
- Catalogers Contacting Creators and Contributors - created by the PCC Standing Committee on Training, 2022-02 (PDF : 638 KB)
- Personal Name NARs
- LC/PCC Practice for Creating NARs for Persons who use Pseudonyms (PDF: 345 KB)
- Corporate Name NARs
- 670 Fields
NACO Advisory Group
- More about the NACO Advisory Group
The NACO Advisory Group is a PCC group that monitors PCC listserv discussion of NACO-related topics, and provides input when a NACO-related topic appears to be unresolved, unanswered, or ambiguously answered, in routine PCC listserv discussion. The advisory group may refer to existing NACO documentation, refer to a NACO best practice, or indicate that the topic may need additional investigation and policy discussion.
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