We successfully maintained membership in the Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO), being the only member in China and contributing 513 name and series authority records.  We are also a full member of the Cooperative Online Serials Programs (CONSER) of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), where we contributed 382 records.  PCC is an international cooperative effort aimed at expanding access to library collections by providing useful, timely, and cost-effective cataloging that meets mutually-accepted standards of libraries around the world.

 

In August 2012, we successfully completed the Resource Description and Access (RDA) in NACO training by PCC and were granted independent status, with a complimentary note from the PCC coordinator saying

 

"the HKUST Library has demonstrated a high level of competence in RDA authority work, and all of this was accomplished in a very short time.  This is an outstanding and commendable achievement." 

 

In May 2013, we were also granted independence in Series Authority Record work.