• Library of Congress Name Authority File (Classification Web) | also use for geographic names in subjects
• Library of Congress Subject Authority File (Classification Web) | Subject list. Great for free-floating subdivisions
• * * *ClassWeb library login * * *
• http://id.loc.gov/ much improved search across many authorities!
• Virtual International Name Authority File
• Art and Architecture Thesaurus | Genre list
• MARC Relator and Role terms
• MARC state and country authorized names (mixed together)
• MARC geographic regions authorized names (e.g. Europe, Australasia, Developing countries)
• AACR2 Place Name Abbreviations | mostly for the place element or clarifying a corp name
• Common AAT Terms

• Digital Sample Book Compare different photographic processes
• Historic timeline of photographic processes .jpg
• Graphics Atlas | Photographic processes information.
• Political Graveyard | For names of politicians large and small.
• Massachusetts Historical Society| Includes a list of known Massachusetts photographers and their addresses.
• Langdon Road | List of 19th & Early 20th Century Photographers
• Vintage Car List| If you know the make and model of a car in a photo it may help pinpoint a range of years.

• identifying albumen prints – most common 19th century photo paper
• identifying gelatin silver prints – most common black and white 20th century photo paper
• other print types

• 3 x 5 in.
• 4 x 6 in.
• 5 x 7 in.
• 8 x 10 in.

• Oxygen setup: line wrap setting is found under the Options menu: Preferences> Editor> Edit Modes> Text.
• You can save a set of tabs in your browser and open them with one click. Bookmark websites to a folder. Open the bookmark manager or library. Right-click on a folder and select “Open all in tabs”.
• if an incoming letter mentions an enclosure but it is not present in the folder, make at note in the abstract: Enclosure not with letter.
• Mention in the abstract any handwritten notes or corrections on documents, except for filing instructions at the tops of documents (General, Personal, name of client).
• make sure there is a space after period for initials in names (W. E. B. Du Bois - correct, W.E.B. Du Bois - wrong)
• make sure there is an authority in names: almost always NAF or local
• save every time you do anything in the local authority files – save after every little change so that it updates when others are working at the same time.
• duplicate form letters to many recipients: if you come across a stack of form letters (same content) addressed to many people, catalog those as one record with title “Letter from XXX to multiple recipients”. Based on interest of content and amount of names, make a decision on whether to include recipients' names in the abstract. Add genre term “form letters”.
• names/words with accents should be encoded with the accent characters. Use the Oxygen character map (under the Edit menu) to look up the code that properly inserts the accented character. Use the “decimal” (not hexidecimal) code. To make sure it is searchable in Credo, I recommend using the plain text version in the abstract. Example: Pelé in title and name elements and Pele in abstract.
• do not use double quotes in titles – the system will screw them up
• More FAQs on cataloging
• for royal/titled names that are in LOC Name Authority, it's a good idea to check the MARC format to see how LOC has parsed the name elements. Example: “Wellington, Charles Wellsely, Duke of, 1945-” (LOC). Title: “Letter from XXX to Charles Wellsely, Duke of Wellington”

MODS Name as:
<name type=“personal”>
<namePart type=“family”>Wellington</namePart>
<namePart type=“given”>Charles Wellsely</namePart>
<namePart type=“termsOfAddress”>Duke of</namePart>
<namePart type=“date”>1945-</namePart>
</name>

• Danielle's power point presentation on metadata
• SCUA MODS Best Practices | Current version
• Library of Congress MODS User Guidelines
• Digital Library Foundation MODS Guidelines