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This is wonderful news. It will immediately improve my productivity since I will have fewer undifferentiated authority records to evaluate each month. I will be very interested in the British Library's experiences and challenges. I hope you will share what you learn with the NACO community.

Mary Charles 


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This is wonderful news.  Thanks to the British Library for making this important decision, and other libraries working in RDA should follow their lead.


Pat Williams
Head, Monographic Original Cataloging
University of Chicago Library

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Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 1:16 AM
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After considering the recent discussion on various lists of the discussion paper "The Future of Undifferentiated Personal Name Authority Records and Other Implications for PCC Authority Work", the BL has decided not to create any further undifferentiated NARs for NACO, nor to add any further identities to existing NARs.

Instead, as part of our RDA training, we have asked our cataloguers to create new NARs for persons who would otherwise be added to undifferentiated records, following RDA, using RDA qualifers for Profession or occupation when appropriate. Cataloguers not yet trained in RDA will pass the work to cataloguers who are.

Effectively we've set ourselves a challenge, to see if the expanded scope for qualifying access points that RDA offers can allow us to avoid undifferentiated records altogether.

The BL creates and amends more than 35,000 NACO records each year, so hopefully this will be a significant test.

Regards
Richard
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Richard Moore
Authority Control Team Manager
The British Library

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