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News

Date News
2023-03-31 Welcome to Bernard Lemieux of the Université de Montréal on the PFAN Standards Committee. As of March 28, 2023, he officially replaces Philippe Brosseau as one of the representatives of the Partenariat des bibliothèques universitaires du Québec. We warmly thank Philippe for his contribution to the committee.


Last update: 2023-03-31

Additions and changes on the PFAN wiki

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2023

Date Page ou titre Modifications
2023-01-16 Other documentation/Useful External Resources Added content: Link for Bounding Box Tool
2023-01-18 Name Authority Manual/670 Added content: New example of how to cite a website subpage
2023-01-18 Name Authority Manual/667 Field Examples Updated content: Editing the note "Date de naissance supprimée de toutes les zones à la demande de l'auteur"
2023-02-14 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Added content: FAQ on romanization
2023-03-09 About PFAN/Steering Committee Added content: Past members section
2023-03-09 About PFAN/Standards Committee Added content: Past members section
2023-03-09 Other documentation/Procedures for Duplicates Added content: Details about the number to be provided in 667 note at Step 2, Record to be deleted
2023-04-05 LAC Added content: Link for LAC Wiki
2023-04-18 About PFAN Updated content: Clarification of certain principles
2023-05-02 PFAN Policy Statements Added content: 32.1
2023-05-04 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)/FAQ - General Added content: Question 7 on related corporate bodies
2023-05-05 About PFAN Updated content: New respondents for some institutions
2023-05-09 Name Authority Manual Updated content: Correction of an example in field 008/15
2023-05-12 Name Authority Manual Updated content: Important clarification added in field 008/32 regarding existing undifferentiated records
2023-06-07 Other documentation/Non-exhaustive List of Verifications to Make to an Existing Record Updated content: Clarification for the term "époque" added to field 1XX of the list
2023-06-21 Name Authority Manual/373 Updated content: Clarification of associated group name changes
2023-06-21 Other documentation/Non-exhaustive List of Verifications to Make to an Existing Record Updated content: Precision for FrPBN-coded authority records

2022

Date Page or title Modifications
2022-01-21 PFAN Policy Statements Added content : 16.2.2.2, Sources of information
2022-01-21 Name Authority Manual Updated content : 370
2022-01-21 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)/FAQ - General Updated content : Question 4 on changing the authorized access points for an agent's works and expressions.
2022-01-24 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Added content : FAQ on geographic names
2022-01-24 Name Authority Manual Added content : 388
2022-01-24 Name Authority Manual Updated content : 008/32, 016, 370
2022-01-24 Name Authority Manual/667 Field Examples Added content : Two new 667 field examples (for undifferentiated name authority records representing a single identity and those undergoing partial modifications)
2022-01-25 Other Documentation Added content : Procedure for partial modification of records describing works and expressions.
2022-01-25 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)/FAQ - General Updated content : Question 4 on changing the authorized access points for an agent's works and expressions.
2022-01-26 Name Authority Manual Updated content : 016
2022-02-09 Name Authority Manual Updated content : 008/32
2022-03-22 Participant's Manual Added content : Cross-references (4XX and 5XX)
2022-03-22 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)/FAQ on Canadiana numbers Added content : Question 4 on obtaining a new list of Canadian numbers
2022-03-22 Other Documentation/Non-exhaustive List of Qualifiers Added content : Two new terms (Lyrics and Libretto)
2022-03-22 Other Documentation/Romanization Updated content : Clarifications added for Chinese
2022-03-22 Name Authority Manual Added content : 385
2022-04-08 About PFAN Added content : Communications
2022-04-13 About PFAN Added content : General Principles
2022-04-19 PFAN Policy Statements Added content : 9.2.2.5.3
2022-04-19 Name Authority Manual - MARC 21 Supplement Updated content : 022, 024, 046, 335, 375, 384, 385, 386, 4XX, 5XX, 500
2022-04-20 Name Authority Manual - MARC 21 Supplement Updated content : 510, 511, 530, 551
2022-05-20 Other Documentation/Romanization Added content : Two new languages (Korean and Japanese)
2022-06-08 Other documentation/Procedures for Duplicates Updated content : Add an instruction to 035 field in step 2
2022-06-10 Name Authority Manual - MARC 21 Supplement Updated content : 511, 672
2022-07-15 Name Authority Manual Updated content : Clarifications added for the Universities Mentoring Project
2022-07-15 Participant's Manual Added content : Simple 4XX "see" cross-references
2022-07-18 About PFAN Updated content : Membership of the Steering Committee
2022-08-25 PFAN Policy Statements Updated content : 9.2.2.5.3.2, Alternative
2022-09-15 About PFAN/Communications Updated content : New article on PFAN
2022-09-15 PFAN Policy Statements Added content : 6.2.2.7, Alternative
2022-10-13 Other Documentation/Romanization Updated content : Addition of romanization tables from BnF (Armenian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Georgian, Macedonian, Russian, Ukrainian
2022-10-13 Name Authority Manual/388 Updated content : RVM examples are replaced by RVMFAST
2022-11-22 Other documentation/Procedures for Duplicates Updated content : Clarifications added for the instruction on 035 field in step 2
2022-11-22 Other documentation/Procedure for partial modification of records describing works and expressions Updated content : Clarifications added on point 3 and example 1
2022-11-22 Name Authority Manual/670 Updated content : Correction of an example
2022-12-09 Other Documentation/Procedures for records derived from LC/NAF Updated content : Clarification of the example of a 670 field
2022-12-10 Discussion Lists Added content : New PFAN-MUSIQUE-L discussion list.
2022-12-13 MARC 21 Supplement Updated content : Added information in different fields.
2022-12-14 Core RDA Elements for PFAN Updated content : Additional information under Related Corporate Bodies element.
2022-12-14 Mandatory MARC Fields for PFAN Updated content : Added information in 510, 511, 551 fields.
2022-12-15 Other documentation/Romanization Added content : New introduction.

Last update: 2023-06-07'