Susan Summer is our NACO reviewer but since she is out for the month, I'll 
speak for her. Catalogers save name headings in the OCLC save file and 
Susan reviews all headings before producing them. We re-visit whether this 
is necessary every few years as you are doing and we always decide it is 
worth it both because of quality control issues and because we catch 
duplicates right up to the last minute. A second set of eyes is worth it 
in our opinion.

Kate


On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, John Attig wrote:

> Penn State is re-evaluating its procedures for contributing Name Authority 
> Records through NACO.  We would like to know whether your institution has a 
> policy that every NAR is checked by someone other than the cataloger who 
> created the record before it is contributed.  If so, do you feel that this 
> level of quality control is justified in terms of the errors identified?
>
> 	John Attig
> 	NACO Coordinator
> 	Penn State
>

Kate Harcourt
Director, Original and Special Materials Cataloging
102 Butler Library
Columbia University Libraries
phone: 212.854.2714
fax: 212.854.5167