Curriculum outline (29 November 2000)

This document presents an outline of a suggested curriculum as required by the brief given to the task group. The original objective was to "develop a curriculum highlighting areas of greatest need for continuing education sessions for current NACO participants." As was mentioned in the group's interim report, there was then-and continues to be-some uncertainty that the brief's emphasis on the "areas of greatest need" and "continuing education" could (or should) be separated from the more general issue of NACO training and documentation. Indeed, as the interim report made clear, we felt that the curriculum would have to cover the entire range of NACO work, and this is what the outline presented here does.

The structure of the curriculum aims to follow general workflow patterns; at its heart is a series of modules covering the different types of headings dealt with by NACO participants. Patterned stylistically after a combination of the CONSER Editing Guide and the CONSER Cataloging Manual, the curriculum is perceived as being useful as both a NACO training tool and as a NACO reference source. Specific topics can be extracted whenever focused continuing education is needed in the NACO community. The group anticipates that the manual will be easily updated whenever changes must be accommodated, and expects it to be routinely augmented with additional helpful components as appropriate.

The curriculum eventually to be submitted by this task group will not be fully fleshed out, just as the original version of the CONSER Cataloging Manual was not complete. We expect the "missing" sections of the curriculum to be produced by NACO participants with special expertise in those specific areas. This task group does plan to create, or adapt from other sources, many of the modules outlined below. The group will devote the bulk of its effort to the "core" of the curriculum, i.e., to the components covering specific types of headings.

As the shape and structure of the presentation are significantly affected by the primary medium of delivery, the group has been reluctant to commit itself too heavily until the reports of other groups-most significantly, in this context, The Task Group on Web-Based Training and Distance Education-are available. The interlocking nature of the task groups that have been established is both an asset to, and a constraint on, The Task Group on NACO Continuing Education, and we look forward, with interest, to reading of others' progress.

NACO Curriculum Outline
NOTE: An asterisk indicates a topic that we've already started to work on.
Curriculum modules so far are located at http://www.lib.cwu.edu/~dcc/naco-continue-ed-index.html#DRAFT

Introduction to NACO

NARs -- purpose

types of headings

overlap with subject work

NACO - philosophy, impact

relationship with CDS-distributed bib records

The "rules"

AACR2

LCRI

Z1

other "mandatory" sources

When is a name not a name?

SCM H 405 etc.

How to be part of it

NACO membership stuff

Restrictions

different levels of contributions (e.g. not series)

who may do what, when, etc.

Create/update via the utilities

Some basics

Normalization

LC BFM

Canadian headings

Searching NAF

RLIN

OCLC

LC

Searching bib records

RLIN

OCLC

LC

"Interpreting" LC bib records

Different types of records (in process, MLC, etc.); LC database vs utilities

Specific types of headings

Personal names (new)

100

Predominant form

Determining language of the author*

Entry element

Additions to distinguish names*

Specific languages

Pseudonyms

400/500

Variants*

Prescribed references*

Conflicts

Pseudonyms

6xx*

Fixed fields

Personal names (changes)

Change or correction of name (100)

Additional variants (400)

Deletion of variants (400)

Conflict or pseudonym (500)

Non-unique names*

Creating

Distinguishing

Additional information (6xx)

Corporate/conference names (new)

110/111

Corporate bodies (general)*

Language

Additions and omissions

Direct vs subordinate entry

Government bodies*

Legislatures, courts, embassies, and armed forces

Government officials

Religious bodies*

Churches

Religious officials

Conferences, exhibitions, festivals, etc.*

Specific languages

410/411

Variant references*

Prescribed references*

510/511

Related bodies

Earlier/later names

6xx*

Fixed fields

Corporate/conference names (changes)

Correction of name (110/111)

Additional variants (410/411)

Deletion of variants (410/411)

NARs containing an "unused subdivisions" note

Related or earlier/later name (510/511)

NARs containing a "valid earlier names" note

Additional information (6xx)

Uniform titles

Name/title headings

Specific languages (including Greek and Latin)

Laws, treaties, etc.

Religious works

Sacred works

Liturgical works

Music

Monographic series

NARs for serials (no AACR2 serial record exists)

Geographic names

More changes to existing NARs

Restrictions by type (e.g., ESTC, BL, Canadian headings)

Deleting NARs, merging NARs and dealing with duplicates

Updating "less than full" NARs

Updating pre-AACR2 headings

Evaluating references

Old practices/"errors" that should not be changed

Contributing - using RLIN and OCLC

Creating new NARs

Retrieving

Work in progress

Existing NARs

Submitting finished record

Deleting unwanted work in progress

Working with reference tools

When are reference tools necessary, when at your discretion

Lists of useful reference sources

Websites, e-mail, phone calls

Queries

Whom to contact about what

What to do if you're not authorized to do what needs doing

Language-specific issues

One for each language, as required

Chinese names (Wade-Giles and Pinyin, China and Taiwan, and more)

"What's new"

Recent changes to rules, procedures, formats, etc.

dcc@cwu.edu; 11/30/2000