• NACO Geographic Name Official Resources
• SACO Forms/Information for Geographic Name Subject Headings
• Other Geographic/Geologic Resources
• Cataloging Resources

• Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) [For names in the United States]
• Rand McNally Commercial Atlas & Marketing Guide (Ref. G1019.R186 Folio)
  [For names in the United States when WWW not available]
• GEOnet Names Server [All other names except Canada and Great Britain]
• Any gazetteer published within the last two years
  [All other names except Canada and Great Britain when WWW not available]
• For names in Canada, use the form heading provided by
  the National Library of Canada (NLC) [Canada]
  NLC source: Geographical Names of Canada [Canada]
• For names in Great Britain, base the name on the recent edition of
  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Places in Great Britain [Great Britain]

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• SACO Subject Authority Proposal Form for Geographics
• FAQ on SACO Subject Heading Proposals

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• GEOLEX (USGS National Geologic Map Database)
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
• United Nations Cartographic Section Maps and Information Resources

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• Maps Cataloging Tools
  [Includes scale calculator and subject cutters]
• Science Cataloging Internet Resources

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Created and maintained by:
Cynthia L. Spell, Science Cataloger and Reference Librarian,
Cataloging and Processing Dept., W.E.B. Du Bois Library,
University of Massachusetts Amherst Campus
spell@library.umass.edu
Contents updated: June 7, 2007

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