Art
NACO

PARTICIPANTS AND STATISTICS

• list of participants
• statistics 2006-2007 (midyear)
• statistics 2005-2006 (annual) - (midyear)
• statistics 2004-2005 (annual) - (midyear)
• statistics 2003-2004 (annual) - (midyear)
• statistics 2002-2003 (annual) - (midyear)
• statistics 2001-2002 (annual) - (midyear)
• statistics 2000-2001 (annual) - (midyear)
• statistics 1999-2000 (annual) - (midyear)
• statistics 1998-1999 (annual) - (midyear)
• statistics 1997-1998 (annual) - (midyear)
• statistics 1996-1997 (annual)

PROCEDURES

• training outlines (NYC 2005) (workshop 2000) (lesson plan 1995)
• learn by doing instructions
• series procedures
  • DPCC approved for use in series authority records
• NACO bibliographic file maintenance (BFM) guidelines
• duplicate name authority records
• independence

OTHER DOCUMENTATION

• 670 examples arranged in the order of the NACO participants manual
  • overlong 670s
• personal name examples
• variants of variants
• LC response on see and see also references when you only have one heading
• notes from the Met training/revision period
• NACO participants manual, 3rd ed. (PDF: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco/npm3rd.pdf)
• NACO notes from UCSD

RESOURCES

• AMICUS Web (Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada)
• ARLIS/NA Cataloging Section
• biographical resources for art-related headings
• buildings
  • National Register Information System (searchable index of sites on U.S. National Register)
  • Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
  • see also "pictures & postcards" on miscellany page
• Canadian subject headings
• Cataloger's Reference Shelf (The Library Corporation)
• Cataloguer's Toolbox (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
• Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (John Attig's site)
• Descriptive cataloging of East Asian material: CJK examples of AACR2 and Library of Congress Rule Interpretations
• The European Library (portal for 43 national libraries of Europe)
  • Bibliothèque nationale de France: Autorités : RAMEAU, personnes, collectivités, titres (name authority records) (subject authority records)
• Functional requirements for bibliographic records (direct link to PDF file) (140-page PDF file available from the IFLA site under Saur publications at http://www.ifla.org/V/saur.htm -- go to UBCIM publications, new series v. 19) (IFLA Cataloguing Section Working Group on FRBR)
• geographic names
  • Geographic Names Information Service (GNIS) (U.S. geographic names)
  • GEOnet (international geographic names)
  • The Ordnance Survey gazetteer of Great Britain (for British place names, click on "Map Shop" and "Explore")
  • Plus sign in GeoNet/BGN geographics (message from SACOLIST)
• Getty vocabularies
• glossaries and subject dictionaries
  • ArtLex art dictionary
  • Vocabulario de arquitectura, arte, diseño y urbanismo (part of Vitruvio project)
  • Words of art (UBC Okanagan)
• Harvard Fine Arts Library classification schedules
• Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (a gateway to other bibliographical databases)
• language dictionaries (yourDictionary.com) and scripts (http://www.omniglot.com)
  • Russian-English-Russian dictionary, compiled by Dmitry Chirkin
• Library of Congress
  • LC Cataloging Policy and Support Office
  • LC opac
  • authorities.loc.gov (actually a heading browse list from the LC database with links to authority records)
  • "Descriptive cataloging manual" (DCM Z1) (PDF file)
• MARC home page
• NACO-AV Funnel Project (affiliated with OLAC)
• Program for Cooperative Cataloging
• RBMS Controlled Vocabularies for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloging
• RLG Authority Assistant
• SCIPIO cataloging format and standards and use guides (Connexion client and Connexion browser)
• University of Washington list of resources for name and subject authorities
• web resources for SACO proposals

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Art NACO is coordinated by:
Sherman Clarke
Head of Original Cataloging
New York University Libraries
sherman.clarke@nyu.edu