[yul-naco] NPM changes

[Manon Theroux]

Dear NACO catalogers,

I'd like to highlight a few of the changes that I noticed in the 3rd 
edition of the NACO Participant's Manual (NPM) that LC issued in August: 
<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco/npm3rd.pdf>http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco/npm3rd.pdf 
. It is linked on the "Authority Control at Yale" site. By the way, if any 
of you have copies of the old 2nd edition floating around, please either 
throw them away or (if you want to archive them) label them clearly as 
being "obsolete".

1. 053 field (p. 22)

The old NPM gave instructions for requesting an 053 from LC; the new NPM 
gives the link for the web form for making such proposals and specifies 
when catalogers may input an 053 directly (the practice is optional). The 
NACO Coordinating Committee also addressed this topic in a little more 
detail in its recently issued "Yale Policies for NACO NARs":
http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/authorities/names_policy.htm

2. 670 (p. 50-53)

Citations of RLIN searches should now say "RLIN21" rather than RLIN. Do 
not, however, correct any existing 670s; these are valid for when they were 
created. Example of new practice:

         670 ## RLIN21, 5 Nov. 2005$b(hdg: Smith, R. T. T. ; usage: R.T.T. 
Smith)

3. Appendices (p. 96-104)

The first two appendices, on identifying LC bib records in RLIN21 and OCLC 
that are candidates for BFM, were simplified. The old NPM also had 
appendices on SACO and appendices with examples of RLIN and OCLC authority 
records. These were dropped in the new NPM.

Sorry to do this a little belatedly!

-Manon 
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