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 Participants' Manual
(opens as PDF)
NACO Training Materials
(from the Catalogers Learning Workshop)
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)