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) NACO 670 examples (Box document)
- 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)