NACO Documentation & Updates

NACO documentation, updates, and forms are posted to this Web site as they are approved by the LC Cooperative Programs Section.

• Guidelines for Reporting NACO BFM
• LC/NACO AACR2 Practice for Creating NARs for Persons Who Use Pseudonyms (PDF, 346KB)
• Non-Latin Script References in Name Authority Records (PPT, 713KB)
• DCM & LCRIs updates available from CDS
• Establishing literary author cutter numbers in LC's online shelflist.
• 053 (literary author number) request form
• Short Cutter table to help determine literary author number.
• 667 Form to report to PSD need to add Subject usage note, etc. to NAR.
• Guide to NACO Review in Connexion
• Headings for Tribes Recognized by the U.S. Government
• AACR2 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 excluded when printing.

• August 2009 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
• Search LAC's Canadiana database or search VIAF for the LAC form of name
• 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 (external link)
• 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
• 040 subfield b in NARs
• NACO Participants' Manual 3d ed. (PDF, 516KB)
• ALA-LC Romanization Tables
• Treatment codes in Casalini libri Series Authority Records
• Authority tools for A-V and music catalogers (external link) (provided by OLAC)
• Pinyin Conversion Project homepage
• PSD announcement on Implementation of Change in Indicator Value for Multiple Surnames
• Report of the IFLA UBCIM Working Group on Minimal Level Authority Records (external link) and ISADN
• Functional requirements for bibliographic records (FRBR (external link))
• IFLA meetings of experts on an International Cataloging Code (IME ICC2; IME ICC3; IME ICC4 (external link))

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