[yul-naco] Fwd: Tribal Entities and MARC21

[Manon Theroux]

>Date:         Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:21:56 -0400
>From: Antony Robert David Franks <afra at loc.gov>
>Subject: Tribal Entities and MARC21
>To: PCCLIST at sun8.LOC.GOV
>
>TREATMENT OF TRIBAL ENTITIES RECOGNIZED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AS 151 HEADINGS
>
>FYI to NACO catalogers:
>
>As a result of discussions with a new NACO participant (the National 
>Indian Law Library) LC's Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) has 
>determined that the appropriate MARC 21 field in name authority records 
>for names of tribal entities recognized by the U.S. government as legal 
>entities should be the 151 (Geographic name) field instead of the 
>previously used 110 (Corporate name) field.  In the next week or two, CPSO 
>will be posting a memo to their Web site providing background, guidelines, 
>and listing the source to search for verification of the form of name, 
>etc.   In the meantime the National Indian Law Library will begin to 
>contribute new NARs with these headings and will begin to change the 
>existing headings to conform to this new practice. Questions, comments, 
>etc. may be sent to: CPSO at loc.gov
>
>Anthony R.D. Franks
>Team Leader, Cooperative Cataloging Team
>Library of Congress
>202-707-2822 (voice)
>202-252-2082 (fax)