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Standards for Headings
- Establishing Australian local government authorities under AACR2R Guidelines for Australian local government authorities
- Australia Guidelines for establishing name headings in Libraries Australia
- forces Guidelines for Australian military forces
Libraries Australia will follow the form of heading established in the Library of Congress Name Authorities (LCNA). LCNA will take precedence over name, title and series headings which have already been verified as authorities in ABN or Libraries Australia, and these headings may be retrospectively changed to conform with LCNA.
An exception will be made for Australian name, title and series headings, because authority records for Australian names, titles and series will usually be established earlier and more accurately by Australian libraries. Therefore, authorities for Australian names, titles and series, which conform to AACR and the Library of Congress rule interpretations, should not be changed retrospectively simply to conform with LCNA.
In order to improve the quality of Australian name, title and series headings in LCNA, the National Library of Australia will offer to the Library of Congress a file of Australian name authorities. To enable Australian headings to be identified within Libraries Australia, they should be coded using the Australian National Union Catalogue code

