The Policy and Standards Division has posted a document: Summary of
Programmatic Changes to the LC/NACO Authority File
at:http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/. This process of programmatic changes
signals the initial phase of RDA implementation in the authority file
that was agreed upon with the Program for Cooperative Cataloging. The
recoding of the LC/NAF will take place in two phases:
*Phase One* will consist only of adding a 667 note to the name authority
record (started on July 30, 2012)
*Phase Two* will consist of the actual progammatic changes to the 1XX
heading that are not acceptable under RDA (e.g., changes to Bible
headings, spelling out Dept. and months, etc., in the subfield $d for
personal names). This Phase is scheduled to take place before March 31,
2013.
The summary provides guidance to RDA catalogers to help determine what
to do when encountering a name authority record with the 667 note added
in this Phase One.
Comments, questions, etc. may be sent to [email protected]
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