The document provides an overview of the Wisconsin NACO Funnel project. It discusses the National Authority Cooperative Program (NACO) and how the Wisconsin funnel allows participating institutions to create and edit authority records for submission to the Library of Congress Name Authority File. Examples are given of authority record creation and editing for name changes or additions of information. Instructions are provided for how libraries can participate or have authority work done for them by the funnel coordinators.

1. Wisconsin NACO
Funnel
WiLS Peer Council
June 3, 2019
Presenters:
Denis Brunke, UW-Madison Memorial Library
Shawn King, UW-Madison Law Library

2. Presentation Outline
• Overview of NACO and the Wisconsin NACO Funnel
• RDA authority records
• Creating and editing authority records in OCLC
• How to participate
• Questions

3. Overview of NACO
NACO = Name Authority Cooperative Program
• Part of PCC (Program for Cooperative Cataloging)
• Participants create and edit authority records for personal names,
corporate bodies, geographic names, uniform titles and series titles to
LC/NACO Authority File
• Can participate as individual institution or as a group funnel
NAR = Name Authority Record
NAF = Name Authority File/NACO Authority File/National Authority File

4. NACO Funnels
• Geographic Funnels
• Alaska Funnel
• Caribbean Funnel
• New Jersey/New York Funnel
• Subject Funnels
• Art Funnel
• Law Funnel
• CJK Funnel

5. Wisconsin NACO Funnel
• Established in 2015
• Coordinated by UW-Madison (Denis Brunke and Betsy Robbins)
• 15 participating institutions so far

6. • Cardinal Stritch University
• Legislative Reference Bureau
• Madison Public Library
• South Central Library System
• Marquette University
• Milwaukee Public Library
• Ripon College
• UW-Eau Claire
• UW-Green Bay
• UW-La Crosse
• UW-Madison
• UW-Milwaukee
• UW-River Falls
• UW-Stout
• Wisconsin Historical Society

7. Wisconsin NACO Funnel
Catalogers create and/or edit Library of Congress Name Authority File
(NAF) headings in OCLC and submit to UW-Madison Memorial Library
catalogers for review
• OCLC macro “GenerateAuthorityRecord” utilized for field guidance
• Non-GZM cataloger shares record with GZM (UW-Madison) then
notifies reviewers by email (wisnaco-lib@lists.wisc.edu)
• After review consultation, originator recalls submitted record,
makes changes, resubmits if necessary, and submits to OCLC

8. MARC Authority Structure
• 0XX – control fields, standard numbers, etc.
• 1XX – the authorized access point (only one allowed)
• 3XX – where most of the RDA entity attributes are recorded
• 4XX – variant access point
• 5XX – links to related entities
• 6XX – notes and series treatment
(NACO Training Module 1 (NACO Foundations) PowerPoint slide 136)

9. RDA Fields in Authority Record
040 DLC ǂb eng ǂe rda ǂc DLC ǂd DLC ǂd WU
046 ǂf 1919-12-12 ǂg 2006-03-09 ǂ2 edtf
100 1 Wilde, John, ǂd 1919-2006
370 Milwaukee (Wis.) ǂb Cooksville (Wis.) ǂ2 naf
372 Art ǂa Art--Study and teaching ǂ2 lcsh
373 University of Wisconsin--Madison ǂ2 naf
374 Artists ǂa College teachers ǂ2 lcsh
375 Males ǂ2 lcdgt
377 eng
378 ǂq John Henry
670 Leaders in Wisconsin art, 1936-1981, c1982: ǂb t.p. (John Wilde) p. 43
(b. Dec. 12, 1919)

10. Creating New Name Authorities

14. NACO Funnel Examples
Title page: “Lothar Schulte”
• NAF already contains heading “Schulte, Lothar” for a
different person.
• No dates are known.
100 1 Schulte, Lothar $c (Professor of Physical Geography)

15. Title page: “by Kate James” [a pseudonym]
• NAF already contains a heading for “James, Kate” for a
different person
• Author was contacted, says she trademarked “Kate James”
and that is how she wants her authority record.
100 1 James, Kate $c (Romance fiction writer)

16. Title page: “by Leon Buckshot Anderson”
Back cover: “Leon Roy Anderson, locally known as ‘Buckshot,’”
“Buckshot graduated college in 1960”
100 1 Anderson, Leon, $d 1937-
400 1 Anderson, Buckshot, $d 1937-
400 1 Anderson, Leon Buckshot, $d 1937-

17. Actress “Kacey Barnfield” in NAF
• Decides to stop using birth name (Barnfield)
• Decides to start using mother’s maiden name (Clarke)
100 1 Barnfield, Kacey, $d 1988-
CHANGED TO:
100 1 Clarke, Kacey, $d 1988-
400 1 Barnfield, Kacey, $d 1988- $w nne

18. Actor “Greg Ellis” in NAF
• Decides to stop using stage name
• Decides to start using real birth name “Jonny Rees”
100 1 Rees, Jonny, $d 1968-
500 1 $w r $i Alternate identity: $a Ellis, Greg, $d 1968-
100 1 Ellis, Greg, $d 1968-
500 1 $w r $i Real identity: $a Rees, Jonny, $d 1968-

19. Writer “Mary K. Hoffman” in NAF
• Now using new married name “Mary K. Hamman”
100 1 Hamman, Mary K.
400 1 Hoffman, Mary K. $w nne

20. TV writer and producer “Jeffrey Ventimilia” in NAF
• Now using “Jennifer Ventimilia” after gender
reassignment
100 1 Ventimilia, Jennifer
400 1 Ventimilia, Jeffrey $w nne

21. Eau Claire writer “Debra A. Peterson” in NAF
Begins writing fiction with pen name “Delaney Green”
100 1 Green, Delaney
500 1 $w r $i Real identity: $a Peterson, Debra A.
100 1 Peterson, Debra A.
500 1 $w r $i Alternate identity: $a Green, Delaney
(Similarly, therapist “Nancy Fagan” also publishes as “Dr.
Romance”)

22. Eau Claire writer Max Garland is in NAF as:
100 1 Garland, Max, $d 1954-
Author emails you, says date is wrong, should be
“1950”
100 1 Garland, Max, $d 1950-
400 1 Garland, Max, $d 1954- $w nne

23. How to Participate
• Contact the funnel coordinators
• We’ll send you documentation
• To create and edit authority records, you need to be an OCLC user. You
will need to request OCLC authorization to work with authority records,
which is tied to your individual OCLC log-in.
• Most participants get training and feedback as they go. They start creating
records using a macro built into Connexion, and we train them via feedback
on their records.
• We hope to provide more formal online training sessions this fall.
• If you don’t have access to OCLC, or you find the intricacies of authority
records to be daunting and off-putting, you can still participate!

24. New service for Wisconsin libraries!
UW-Madison will create authority records for you.
• If you encounter any local names or places that lack authority records, you
can send us the information we need to create an authority record for you
• Limited for now to Wisconsin-based names – Wisconsin people, corporate
bodies from Wisconsin, geographic names from Wisconsin, etc.

25. Questions?
Funnel contact email: wisnaco-lib@lists.wisc.edu
Denis Brunke denis.brunke@wisc.edu
Shawn King shawn.king@wisc.edu

26. Helpful Links
• NACO documentation
https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/naco/index.html
• NACO training modules
https://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/courses/naco-RDA/index.html
• MARC 21 Format for Authority Data
http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/
• Library of Congress Authorities
https://authorities.loc.gov