NACO documentation, updates, and forms are posted to this Web site as they are approved by the LC Cooperative Programs Section.
- NACO 024 Best Practices Guidelines [Word, 34 KB] created by the PCC URIs in MARC Pilot NACO subgroup (Nov. 2020)
- 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 (November 2018) [Word : 63 KB]
- PCC Relationship Designator Proposal Form (proposals submitted to PCC Standing Committee on Standards)
- 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
- Non-Latin Script References in Name Authority Records (PPT, 713KB)
- 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 GEOnet 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
- NACO Participants' Manual 4th Edition (PDF, 792 KB) Revised and Updated for RDA by the PCC Standing Committee on Training, July 2020
- Pinyin Conversion Project
- Change in Indicator Value for Multiple Surnames (1999)
- Use of 7XXs in NACO Name Authority Records (2002)