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

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About Francophone Name Authority Program (PFAN)

Established in 2020 by Library and Archives Canada, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec and 15 Quebec francophone libraries from the Partenariat des bibliothèques universitaires du Québec, the Francophone Name Authority Program (PFAN) is the programme by which participating institutions contribute to the Canadiana name authority file by supplying authority records for agents, places, works and expressions.

For more information about PFAN, please visit the Communications section or contact pfan-fnap@bac-lac.gc.ca.

General Principles [NEW]

1. The Canadiana name authority file is hosted by OCLC.
2. There is only one French authority file in WMS, Canadiana.
3. Contributions of authority records in the Canadiana file by participants of the program must be performed using the WorldShare Record Manager service using the WMS platform.
4. The governance of the program is ensured by a Steering Committee, and the standards and practices are stipulated by the Standards Committee.
5. The PFAN standards and practices guide the creation of authorities and are based on those created by NACO. These are available in French. Libraries participating in the program commit to following the rules for contributions devised by the Standards Committee
6. Participating libraries are responsible for training their staff and could be called upon to validate the quality of authority records contributed by other member libraries.
7. PFAN is open to all French-language partners.
8. This file is created collaboratively and the authority records must be provider neutral.
9. A new partner cannot load authority records from their local file even if these are unique.

Last update: 2022-04-20

Steering Committee

Mandate

[PDF, 48 Ko] (Versions)

Last update: 2020-12-08

Membership

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

Last update: 2020-04-18

Planning

2020-2022 [PDF, 62 Ko] (Versions)

Last update: 2021-07-15

Standards Committee

Mandate

[PDF, 74 Ko] (Versions)

Last update: 2021-07-28

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

Last update: 2020-04-18

Participating Libraries

* Note that the abbreviations "BAC" and "BAnQ" are not preceded by an article. For example, "Fichier interne de BAnQ" and not "Fichier interne de la BAnQ".

Institution	Symbol	Abbreviation to use in field 670	Name of person responding on behalf of the institution
Bibliothèque et Archives Canada	CaOONL	BAC*	Nathalie Mainville
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec	CaQMBN	BAnQ*	Daniel Paradis
École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP)	CaQQUQEN	ENAP	Julie Hardy
HEC Montréal	CaQMHE	HEC	Isabelle Dallaire
Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)	CaQQINRS	INRS	Anne Robitaille
Polytechnique Montréal	CaQMEP	PolyMtl	Irina Gherasim
Université TÉLUQ	CaQQUQT	TÉLUQ	Mylène Lalonde
Université de Montréal	CaQMU	UdeM	Pierre-Étienne Lépine
Université de Sherbrooke	CaQSHERU	UdeS	Troy Pouliot
Université Laval	CaQQLA	ULaval	Julie Gauthier
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)	CaQCU	UQAC	Louise Dumais
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)	CaQMUQ	UQAM	Philippe Brosseau
Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR)	CaQRU	UQAR	Suzie Pelletier
Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)	CaQRUQR	UQAT	Camée Toupin-Lefebvre
Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)	CaQHU	UQO	Lise Jeannotte
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR)	CaQTU	UQTR	Lucie Hamelin
École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS)	CaQMUQET	ÉTS	To be determined

Last update: 2021-03-08

Communications [NEW]

Year	Title	Author	Description
2020	First Steps for the Francophone Name Authority Program	Bernard Bérubé Nathalie Mainville	Article published in Signatures, Fall-Winter 2020, p. 12-13.
2020	Programme francophone des autorités de noms (PFAN)	Julie Cardinal Caitlin Horrall Danielle Poirier	Presentation given at the Congrès des professionnel·le·s de l'information, Fall 2020.
2021	Le Programme francophone des autorités de nom prend forme	Catherine Couturier	Article published on Affaires universitaires webpage, 20 may 2021.
2021	First Steps for the Francophone Name Authority Program	Bernard Bérubé Nathalie Mainville	Article published in Metadata Newsletter, June 2021, p. 14-15.
2021	The Francophone Name Authority Program	Julie Cardinal Caitlin Horrall Danielle Poirier	Presentation given to ALA'S Authority Control Interest Group, July 2021.

Last update: 2022-04-08

PFAN Discussion List

About the Discussion List

PFAN-L 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: coorddeliste-listcoord@bac-lac.gc.ca.

Archives: https://listserv.collectionscanada.gc.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A0=PFAN-L

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.

Last update: 2021-06-08

Contact PFAN

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