Save the date: Webinar: NACO Name Authority for Corporate Bodies – Focus on Non-Latin Scripts (Arabic & Persian), March 28th, 2025
Dagher, Iman
Dear colleagues,
Join us for an informative and engaging webinar presented by Adam Schiff, designed specifically for NACO catalogers looking to deepen their understanding of NACO rules and practices for corporate body name authorities. This session, organized by the MELA Committee on Cataloging, will focus on creating and enhancing name authority records for corporate bodies, with a special emphasis on the challenges and strategies when dealing with non-Latin scripts—especially Arabic and Persian.
Key Topics:
- Overview of NACO best practices for corporate body name authority
- Focus on common mistakes in coding; bodies with more than one name; subordinate bodies; ambiguous entities; international bodies; conferences; attributes of corporate bodies
- Common challenges catalogers face with non-Latin scripts
- Special focus on Arabic and Persian corporate body names, real examples and solutions for enhancing NACO records
- Tips for improving consistency and accuracy in authority records
Bonus Topic: Family names. Adam will also address the current guidelines for creating and using name authority records for family names, particularly as subjects.
Webinar Details:
Date: March 28th, 2025
Time: Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am PT | 11:00 am - 12:30 pm MT | 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm CT | 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm ET | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Cairo Time
Presenter: Adam Schiff
Moderator: Iman Dagher
Organized by: The MELA Committee on Cataloging
Presenter Bio: Adam L. Schiff is Principal Cataloger at the University of Washington Libraries in Seattle, Washington. He has an M.L.I.S. from the University of California, Berkeley and an A.B. in biological sciences from Cornell University. Prior to coming to the University of Washington, he worked at the California Academy of Sciences Library in San Francisco and the University of Colorado, Boulder Libraries. Adam serves as NACO, SACO, and BIBCO coordinator and is a NACO trainer for PCC. He currently serves as one of two representatives from ALA to the North American RDA Committee (NARDAC). He has served on numerous PCC task groups and committees, most recently on the Task Group for URIs in MARC Implementation and Support, SCT Task Group on Linked Data Training, and SCS Task Group on Evaluation Guidelines for Non-Latin Script References in Name Authority Records. He participated in creating some of the RDA Metadata Guidance Documentation and is the author of the SACO Participants' Manual. He is a co-chair of the SACO Gender and Sexuality Funnel and a past chair of the ALA Cataloging Committee: Description and Access (CC:DA) and the MARBI Committee (predecessor to the MARC Advisory Committee).
Stay tuned for registration details!
Please feel free to share this announcement with colleagues who may be interested.
Best regards,
Iman
MELA Committee on Cataloging Chair
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Iman Dagher
Arabic & Islamic Studies Metadata Librarian
UCLA Library. Resource Acquisitions & Metadata Services
Email: ida...@library.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-8642