NACO Canada

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NACO Canada

• Sharing Our Work,
• Sharing Our Expertise
• Jonathan David Makepeace
• Leddy Library
• University of Windsor

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Whats NACO?

• established in 1977
• part of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging
  since PPCs 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)

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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

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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

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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

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Training

• provided by volunteers trained by LC
• lasts five days
• trainee institution must pay trainers costs
  (transportation, meals, lodging)
• optimum class size 12
• can alternately be done at LC
• can later train ones own staff
• open to any competent level of staff

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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)

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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Why do it?

• better records
• lowers cost for all
• networking
• seal of quality

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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 [phone] ext. 4723
• Email jdm_at_uwindsor.ca