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The NACO-Music Project (NMP) is a funnel configuration administered by a coordinator who plans for members' training, assigns reviewers, and oversees other administrative matters. The NMP Coordinator is Ralph Papakhian (papakhi@indiana.edu).
The NMP coordinator or independent NMP participants review the headings of new participants until they become independent. Those independent participants then review new participants' headings until they too become independent. Independent status is defined as having the authority to contribute name and/or name-uniform title authority records without review. A participant can become independent in stages, with names first, then name/uniform titles, or both at once. Independent status for an NMP participant is achieved through the NMP review and testing process, not through the status of the home institution.
The NACO Music Project has a electronic mail list, NMP-L, which is used for various purposes: to ask general questions concerning establishing a heading or citing information in the authority record, to make announcements of interest to all NMP participants, to announce new developments or revised documentation. Additionally, we receive regular statements of project statistics from the Library of Congress via NMP-L.
Documentation:
Ordering information for the items above which must be purchased from LC's Cataloging Distribution Service is available at http://lcweb.loc.gov/cds/cdsintro.html.
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