Local Resources

• Authorities procedures
• NACO 670 examples (Box document)
• $w cheat sheet

External Resources

• 024 (Other Standard Identifier) Best Practices Document
• Canadiana  
• Authority File Comparison Rules (NACO Normalization) 
• Authority Tools for Audio-Visual Catalogers 
• FAQ on Creating Name Authority Records  
• FAQs on Pseudonyms 
• FAQs on Series 
• FAQs on Uniform Titles 
• GEOnet Names Server  (use for foreign names)
• Geographic Names Information System  (use for US names)
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names 
• Guidelines for Reporting NACO BFM 
• Latin Place Names  (found in the imprints of books printed before 1801)
• MARC21 Concise Format for Authority Data 
• MARC 21 Encoding to Accomodate New RDA Elements 046 and 3XX in NARs and SARs (Follow link to Word doc from NACO documentation) 
• OCLC Authorities User Guide 
• Online Film Dictionary 
• RULERS  (contains lists of heads of state and heads of government)
• Social Security Death Index 
• Union List of Artist Names   
• VIAF (The Virtual Authority File)