PFAN - Francophone Name Authority Program
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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
- 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 70 |
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) | CaQMUQEN | 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 |
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: 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.
