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PCC Hebraica/Judaica Funnels (BIBCO/NACO/SACO): Resources & Documents

Coordinator, Jasmin Shinohara (jshino@upenn.edu); LC liaison, Nahid Gerstein (nger@loc.gov)

Hebraica BIBCO Funnel

Participating libraries

Documents & Resources

• Library of Congress BIBCO home page (including how to join)
• BIBCO Participants' Manual (2015)
• PCC Guidelines for Minimally Punctuated MARC Bibliographic Records (effective Jan. 2020)
• PCC Guidelines for Creating Bibliographic Records in Multiple Character Sets
• PCC Policy on Compilations of Works by One Agent (eliminates use of Conventional Collective Titles for post-1500 works; effective April 2021)
• MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data

Hebraica NACO Funnel (began 1994)

Participating libraries

Documents & Resources

• Library of Congress NACO home page (including how to join)
• NACO Participants' Manual, 4th ed. (2020) 
• DCM Z1 and LC Guidelines Supplement to MARC 21 Format for Authority data
• MARC 21 Format for Authority Data
• NACO Documentation & Updates 

• Personal Name Authority Record FAQs  

• NACO 024 Best Practices Guidelines
• NACO Series Training
  

   

• Guidelines for Rabbinic Names Entered Under Forename
• 046 Date EDTF Examples (Yale Music)
• 670 Source Data Found Examples
• Yale Music
• ArtNACO
• Folgerpedia
• National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File ("Mazal")
• "The NACO Hebraica Funnel Project," RLIN Focus (1995:12)

Judaica SACO Funnel (began 2005)

Participating libraries

Documents & Resources

• Library of Congress SACO home page (including how to join)
• SACO Participants' Manual 2nd ed. (2007)
• "Division of the world" : aka, SHM 405: "Establishing certain entities in the Name or Subject Authority FIle"
• Topical heading proposal checklist
• SACO resources 
• LSCH Tentative Monthly Lists
• LCSH Approved Monthly Lists
• Subject heading proposal menu (via Classification Web [subscription required])
• Subject heading proposal form (useful for submitting draft proposals for review)
• LCSH online training (via Catalogers Learning Workshop)

           Jewish subjects in need of review (link to Google drive tracking our work; funnel membership not required for participation!)

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