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PCC Resources for
NACO documentation, updates, and forms are posted to this Web site as they are approved by the PCC.
- PCC Policy for Partial Compilations of Works by One Agent (PDF : 162 KB) (May 4, 2021; updated Aug. 22, 2024)
- 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 : 421 KB) Created by the PCC Standing Committee on Standards (October 2020; updated Aug. 28, 2024)
- NACO 024 Best Practices Guidelines [PDF, 939 KB] created by the PCC URIs in MARC Pilot NACO subgroup (Nov. 2020)
- PCC CCT (Conventional Collective Title) Feasibility Study Assessment (Mar. 25, 2021; basis of April 2021 PCC Policy for Partial Compilations of Works by One Agent)
- 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
- Library of Congress Discontinues NACO Literary Author Number Program [PDF : 130KB]
- Guidelines for Reporting NACO BFM
- LC-PCC Policy Statements for RDA
- DCM Z1 and LC Guidelines Supplement to MARC 21 Format for Authorities Data
(current versions)
- DCM update pages (2006-present)
- DCM Z12 (information about special projects for authority records in the LC/NACO Authority File and Library of Congress bibliographic records, October 2018) [PDF : 129KB]
- PCC Post RDA Test Guidelines
- PCC Guidelines for the Application of Relationship Designators in NACO Authority Records (May 2024) [PDF : 448 KB]
- MARC 21 Encoding to Accommodate RDA Elements in 046, 3XX, 672, 673, and 678 Fields in NARs and SARs (May 30, 2017) [Word: 169 KB]
- ALA-LC Romanization Tables
- Arabic NACO Manual
- Persian NACO Manual
- Non-Latin Script References in Name Authority Records (PPT, 713KB)
- Pinyin Conversion Project
- LC Subject Headings Manual H 405: Establishing Certain Entities in the Name or Subject File [PDF: 55 KB]
- Authority File Comparison Rules (NACO Normalization)
- Summary of Programmatic Changes to the LC/NACO Authority File (Phases 1 and 2) [PDF: 230 KB]
- Report and Specifications for Phase 3 Changes to the LC/NACO Authority File (implementation pending)
- LC/NACO Practice for Creating NARs for Persons Who Use Pseudonyms [PDF: 345KB]
- Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible to Receive Services from the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Access GNIS and GNS to search geographic place names
- For geographic names in Great Britain: The Ordnance Survey Gazetteer of Great Britain
- Responsibilities of independent members of the PCC
- NACO FTP process, or, How the NACO nodes work
- Guide to NACO Review in Connexion
- LC Authorities
- VIAF
- LAC Canadiana Authorities
- OLAC Authority Tools for Audiovisual and Music Catalogers
- 040 subfield b in NARs
- Change in Indicator Value for Multiple Surnames (1999)
- Use of 7XXs in NACO Name Authority Records (2002)
