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NACO Canada. Sharing Our Work, Sharing Our Expertise Jonathan David Makepeace Leddy Library University of Windsor. What’s NACO?. established in 1977 part of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging since PPC’s formation in the mid-1990s
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NACO Canada Sharing Our Work, Sharing Our Expertise Jonathan David Makepeace Leddy Library University of Windsor
What’s NACO? • established in 1977 • part of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging since PPC’s formation in the mid-1990s • cooperative programme allowing participants to add authority records for names, uniform titles and series to the LC/NACO authority file (NAF)
Who may join? • institutions worldwide • commercial or non-commercial • no individual members • commercial entities do not receive publications free of charge • must use OCLC or RLIN • separate authorizations for NACO contribution
Obligations? • no formal contract • annual minimum record contribution • ARL libraries: 200 records • other libraries: 100 records • funnel participants: no set minimum • informal commitment to continuity
Funnel vs Institutional Members • Funnel • common subject or geographic interest • no minimum record requirement • coordinator votes in PCC elections • coordinator liaises with LC • Institutional Membership • minimum record requirement • library director votes in PCC elections • NACO contact liaises with LC
Training • provided by volunteers trained by LC • lasts five days • trainee institution must pay trainer’s costs (transportation, meals, lodging) • optimum class size: 12 • can alternately be done at LC • can later train one’s own staff • open to any competent level of staff
Review • six months to one year • 80-100 records • focuses on headings and references (and avoiding duplicates) • learn about documentation • goal is independence (contribution of records without review)
What can NACO libraries do? • contribute new name authority records (NARs) to the NAF • make changes to existing NARs • contribute series and uniform title authority records only after supplementary training
Standards • AACR2R chapters 22-26 • LC Rule Interpretations • SCM memo H405 • MARC 21 Authority Format • including its LC Guidelines Supplement (the blue pages) • Descriptive Cataloging Manual section Z1 (the yellow pages)
LAC/LC Names Agreement • always use LAC name headings, if available, for Canadian persons and corporate bodies • if not, we simply create Canadian personal name headings • must ask LAC to establish Canadian corporate body headings
Who participates? • over 400 institutions worldwide • over half are funnel members • in Canada • 2 institutional members • 4 NACO Canada funnel members • 3 members of subject funnels
Why do it? • better records • lowers cost for all • networking • seal of quality
Coordinates Jonathan David Makepeace Coordinator, NACO Canada Leddy Library University of Windsor 401 Sunset Avenue Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4 Website: http://uwindsor.ca/naco/ Telephone: 514-253-3000 ext. 4723 Email: jdm@uwindsor.ca