For those who tried to help me out last week with finding the list of authority sites for download - this was the email I was referring to. Thanks Nicole ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stephen Pomes <stephen_pomes@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:24 PM Subject: [ACAT] Some Free Authority File Sites To: AUTOCAT@listserv.syr.edu I want to thank everyone who kindly sent me suggestions on where to locate free authority files. I have several page links to share. It is possible to download large files with many authority records in MARC format from these various sites. Some of you may already know and use these sites, so please forgive any duplication. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/filelist.html Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) from the National Library of Medicine http://agclass.nal.usda.gov/download.shtml National Agricultural Library Thesaurus http://www.library.northwestern.edu/public/gsafd/ “Guidelines on Subject Access to Individual Works of Fiction” Drama authority files http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/download.html - Getty sample files for their authority records for various Getty datatbases Thanks, Steve Stephen V. Pomes, M.L.I.S. U.S. Dept. of the Interior Minerals Management Service Library 1201 Elmwood Park Blvd., MS 5031 New Orleans, La. 70123 Telephone: 504-736-2521 Fax: 504-736-2525 E-Mail: stephen.pomes@mms.gov *********************************************************************** AUTOCAT quoting guide: http://www.cwu.edu/~dcc/Autocat/copyright.html E-mail AUTOCAT listowners: autocat-request@listserv.syr.edu Search AUTOCAT archives: http://listserv.syr.edu/archives/autocat.html By posting messages to AUTOCAT, the author does not cede copyright ***********************************************************************