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[Heidi Lerner]

NACO catalogers,

Emails below provide links to foreign authority files that you may find useful in your NACO work.

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Sherman Clarke wrote:

In addition to the useful information that one finds in OCLC which might be on non-English and older records, this round of messages on 670s from such records leads me to mention how much help we've been getting recently from European national libraries. The French authority file is especially helpful since the records are in a style that closely parallels NACO, i.e., heading with date, alternate forms of name, nationality, life dates, affiliations, link to bibs, and (alas) gender. I have also used the German and Dutch national libraries many times, as well as the Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze.

BN France = http://www.bnf.fr/pages/catalogues.htm
DNB = http://www.d-nb.de/sammlungen/kataloge/opac.htm
KB = http://www.kb.nl/menu/catalogi.html
BNCF = http://www.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/pagina.php?id=36

And you get to practice your French, German, Dutch, and Italian.

Sherman Clarke
New York University Libraries
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Subject: [PCCLIST] Non-English authority files, was: citing a record in OCLC in another language of cataloging

Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:11:35 -0700
From: D. Brooking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Program for Cooperative Cataloging <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]





Also the Czech National Library's authority file:

http://sigma.nkp.cz/F/QH35F7HDBTBHEHYR3GRAM7A4AYXFHQR18D6IA6RC1HTJE8KNFG-01250?func=file&file_name=find-a&local_base=AUT

I am not sure why this url is soooo long. I hope it works for you. Or you can start out here:

http://www.nkp.cz/

then go to Katalogy a databaze, then to Prehled vsech dostupnych bazi NK, then choose AUT.

I especially like the first set of search boxes, since it allows you to browse indexes.

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Diana Brooking             (206) 685-0389
Cataloging Librarian       (206) 685-8782 fax
Suzzallo Library           [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Washington
Box 352900
Seattle WA  98195-2900


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