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Pamela Parish, last updated by Laura E. Daniels on May 14, 2026
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Local Resources
- Authorities procedures
- NACO 670 examples (Box document)
- $w cheat sheet
- NAR deletion request form (this goes to the NACO liaison)
External Resources
- 024 (Other Standard Identifier) Best Practices Document
- Canadiana
- Authority File Comparison Rules (NACO Normalization)
- Authority Tools for Audio-Visual Catalogers
- Date formatting (046) (guidelines from Yale Music Library, easier to interpret than EDTF specification)
- 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)
- NACO Participants' Manual (opens as PDF)
- NACO Training Materials (from the Catalogers Learning Workshop)
- Names of Persons (IFLA guidelines for order of elements in personal name headings)
- 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
- Yale Music Library's Authority Control and NACO resources (note especially the Handbook of Examples which includ)
- VIAF (The Virtual International Authority File)