PFAN - Francophone Name Authority Program

About PFAN

News and Updates

Rules for Contributions

Name Authority Manual

Participant's Manual

PFAN Policy Statements

PFAN Training

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Other Documentation

LAC

About PFAN

Since 2018, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has created its name authority records in OCLC's WorldShare Management Services (WMS) integrated library management system. The English-language authority records are created in the LC/NACO file of the Name Authority Cooperative Program. The French-language authority records are created in the Canadiana file which has been governed by the Francophone Name Authority Program (PFAN) since the spring of 2020. For more information, please contact bac.pfan-fnap.lac@canada.ca.

Steering Committee

Mandate

• Project planning for the Francophone Name Authority Program
• Supervision and administration of the Francophone Name Authority Program / Programme francophone des autorités de noms (PFAN)

Membership

• Julie Cardinal, Université de Montréal
• Caitlin Horrall, Library and Archives Canada
• Danielle Poirier,  Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec

Standards Committee

Mandate

• The Standards Committee is responsible for writing and updating guidelines relating to the contribution of authorities made to the French name authority file and for providing support to partner institutions in the use of standards.

Membership

• Bernard Bérubé, Library and Archives Canada
• Philippe Brosseau, Université du Québec à Montréal
• Izidor Cirnatiu,  Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
• Julie Gauthier, Université Laval
• Nathalie Mainville, Library and Archives Canada, co-chair
• Daniel Paradis,  Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, co-chair

Participating Libraries

Institution	Symbol	Institutional representative
Library and Archives Canada	CaOONL	Nathalie Mainville
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec	CaQMBN	Daniel Paradis
École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS)	CaQMUQET	Gaston Fournier
École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP)	CaQMUQEN	Julie Hardy
HEC Montréal	CaQMHE	Isabelle Dallaire
Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
Polytechnique Montréal	CaQMEP	Irina Gherasim
Université de Montréal	CaQMU	Pierre-Étienne Lépine
Université de Sherbrooke	CaQSHERU	Troy Pouliot
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)	CaQCU	Louise Dumais
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)	CaQMUQ	Philippe Brosseau
Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR)	CaQRU	Suzie Pelletier
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR)	CaQTU	Lucie Hamelin
Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)	CaQRUQR	Camée Toupin-Lefebvre
Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)	CaQHU	Lise Jeannotte
Université Laval	CaQQLA	Julie Gauthier
Université TÉLUQ	CaQQUQT	Mylène Lalonde

PFAN Discussion List

About the Discussion List

PFAN is a bilingual discussion list established by the Programme francophone des autorités de noms (PFAN) to participating libraries.

List participants are encouraged to use the list to:

• provide information of interest to PFAN participating libraries;
• ask questions and propose solutions to other PFAN libraries.

You may use the listserv web interface to configure your user profile, to use basic listserv commands and to search discussion list archives. Please visit: https://listserv.collectionscanada.gc.ca/cgi-bin/wa.

For questions and concerns relating to the list, please contact: bac.coorddeliste-listcoord.lac@canada.ca .

List Commands

To send a message to all of the people currently subscribed to the list, just send mail to PFAN-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA, which is called the list address. You must never try to send  any command to that  address, as it would be distributed to all the  people who have subscribed. All commands must be  sent to  LISTSERV@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA, which is  the LISTSERV address. It is important to understand the difference between the two.

You may leave the list at any  time by sending a "SIGNOFF PFAN-L" command to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA.  You can also tell LISTSERV  how you want it to confirm the receipt of  messages you send to the list. To send yourself a copy of your own  messages, send a "SET PFAN-L REPRO" command.

Alternatively, to have LISTSERV send  you a short acknowledgement instead of the entire message, send a  "SET PFAN-L ACK NOREPRO" command. Finally, you can turn  off acknowledgements completely with the  "SET PFAN-L NOACK NOREPRO" command.

PFAN-L uses a UNIX-based LISTSERV software. Information about advanced commands for LISTSERV can be retrieved by sending the following message:

To: LISTSERV@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA

Message: INFO REFCARD

All commands to LISTSERV should be in the body of the message. Since the software is English, all commands to LISTSERV must be in English.

SIGNOFF PFAN-L

• To remove your name from the list.

INFO PFAN-L

• To obtain information about PFAN-L.

SET PFAN-L NOMAIL

• This will stop sending you PFAN-L postings until your reset your status - please use this when you go on holidays or will not be taking email regularly.

SET PFAN-L MAIL

• This will reset your status and allow you to begin receiving messages from the list.

SET PFAN-L DIGEST

• To receive a message per day that contains all the daily postings to PFAN-L.

SET PFAN-L REPRO

• To get a copy of a message that you post to PFAN-L.

SET PFAN-L NOREPRO

• To NOT receive a copy of what you post to PFAN-L (this is the default).

HELP PFAN-L

• To obtain a list of commands.

INDEX PFAN-L

• To obtain an index of what has been posted to PFAN-L.

REVIEW PFAN-L

• To get information about a list including subscribers.

SET PFAN-L CONCEAL

• To conceal your name from anyone using the REVIEW command.

Contact PFAN

Please send all questions to bac.pfan-fnap.lac@canada.ca.