NACO: a cooperative model for building and maintaining a shared name authority database [English version presented at the International Conference] = NACO: un modello di cooperazione per l’allestimento e la manutenzione di un authority database condiviso per nomi [Versione italiana presentata alla Conferenza internazionale]
| Main Author: | Byrum, John D. Jr. |
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| Format: | Proceeding NonPeerReviewed application/pdf |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2003
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/4152/1/byrum_eng.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/4152/2/byrum_ita.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/4152/ |
Daftar Isi:
- More than 20 years have passed since the Name Authority Cooperative was conceived. Although not the most senior of cooperative cataloguing initiatives hosted by the Library of Congress, NACO has emerged in terms of size of membership and extent of production as the largest endeavor of its nature in the history of bibliographic control. NACO, which began with an agreement with but a single institution in 1976, now encompasses some 395 institutions that, during the past quarter century, have collectively developed and maintained a database of more than 2,000,000 authority records. The NACO family of libraries is expanding at a rate of about 50 new members annually, while the number of new and updated name and series authority records is currently growing by nearly 220,000 records each year.