NACO Around the World

Photograph from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. NTU is a new NACO member. NACO training was led by Saralee Turner in January 2011.

Photograph from the Nigerian Librarian Association Conference on October 27, 2010, where the NACO Program was introduced.

• ABOUT NACO (the name authority component of the PCC)
• FAQ on joining the program (updated 07/04)
• Comparing types of NACO Membership
• NACO application/information form (Formulario disponible en Español)
• Outline of the five-day NACO Training course outline

• LC/NACO AACR2 Practice for Creating NARs for Persons Who Use Pseudonyms
• Uniform titles FAQ
• 670 field FAQ
• NARs LAC, NUC & CIP FAQ
• Personal name NARs FAQ
• Corporate NARs FAQ
• Geographic NARs FAQ
• "From old catalog" FAQ (headings in the LC catalog labeled "From old catalog")

• NACO, BIBCO
• NACO Regional Trainers list
  • Information for Trainees and Trainers
    
    

• Description of a funnel
• Funnel FAQ
• Guidelines to follow before implementing a PCC Funnel Project training workshop
  
  
• NACO Funnel Projects:
  • Directory of NACO Funnel Projects and coordinators
    
    

• Application for PCC series training, April 28-30, 2008
• List of PCC Series Trainers
• Training Materials for trainers and trainees.
  
  

• FAQ on series tracing, analysis, and classification; including LC series policy as of June 1, 2006

• Guidelines for reporting BFM for NACO
• DCM & LCRIs updates available from CDS
• Guide to NACO Review in Connexion
• Non-Latin Script References in Name Authority Records (Revised June 2009) [PPT; 706 KB - 24 slides]
• Headings for Tribes Recognized by the U.S. Government
• Chapter 25--Uniform titles by Robert Ewald
• Alphabetic list of ambiguous entities
• The Policy and Standards Division has made available a comprehensive version of the Descriptive Cataloging Manual (DCM) Z1 and the LC Guidelines Supplement to the MARC 21 Format for Authority Data. These documents are current as of August 1, 2009.

  Note to NACO participants: DCM Z1 includes an appendix with instructions specific to Library of Congress staff that may be exluded when printing.

  • August 2011 DCM Z1 [PDF - 152 p.; 1.8 MB]
  • August 2009 LC Guidelines Supplement [PDF - 136 p.; 1.6 MB]
    
    
  Electronic versions of both documents are also available through Cataloger's Desktop. Quarterly updates are available from the Cataloging Distribution Service.
  
  
• Guidelines for the use of 7XXs in NACO Name Authority Records
• Search the authority file via the LC web catalog
• Searching LAC's AMICUS authority file
  via the WWW
  • LAC request for verification form when creating an NAR for a Canadian corporate name
• Access GNIS and GeoNET to search geographic place names
• For names in Great Britain, base the name on a recent edition of The Ordnance Survey gazetteer of Great Britain
  . Use this Great Britain site link to search for a particular place name.
  Confer with LCRI 23.2
• Responsibilities of independent members of the PCC
• Authority File Comparison Rules (NACO Normalization)
• NACO FTP or, how the NACO nodes work
• Records Issued by LC in an "IN-PROCESS" State
• CPSO announcement on Implementation of Change
  in Indicator Value for Multiple Surnames
• 040 subfield b in NARs
• Pinyin Conversion Project homepage
• NACO Participants' Manual 3d ed. (335 KB/105 pages)
• ALA-LC Romanization Tables
• Treatment codes in Casalini libri Series Authority Records
• Authority tools for A-V and music catalogers (provided by OLAC)
  
  

• Report of the IFLA UBCIM Working Group on Minimal Level Authority Records and ISADN
  
  
• Functional requirements for bibliographic records (FRBR)
  
  
• IFLA meetings of experts on an International Cataloging Code (IME ICC1; IME ICC2; IME ICC3; IME ICC4)

• Establishing literary author cutter numbers in LC's online shelflist.
  • 053 (literary author number) request form
• 053 FAQs are available on the FAQ about LC classification
• Short Cuttertable to help determine literary author number.

667 Form to report to CPSO need to add Subject usage note, etc. to NAR.