IFLA Metadata Newsletter Volume 7, Number 1, June 2021 : First Steps for the Francophone Name Authority Program
First Steps for the Francophone Name Authority Program
By Bernard Bérubé, Cataloguing Librarian, Library and Archives Canada
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Nathalie Mainville, Senior Librarian, Library and Archives Canada
In spring 2020, Library and Archives Canada (LAC), Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) and 15 French-language Quebec libraries in the Bureau de coopération interuniversitaire (BCI), joined together to create the Francophone Name Authority Program (Programme francophone des autorités de noms, PFAN).
[…]… the program participants added their name authorities to the Canadiana file, previously managed exclusively by LAC. This meant 1.4 million new records in Canadiana, which already had over 650,000 records.
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