LC practice/PCC practice: When the name of an individual performer appears in conjunction with the name of a performing group, unless there is other evidence generally do not consider the person's name to be part of the name of the group.

LC practice/PCC practice: If the form of name selected as the preferred name includes a Greek letter or a letter or symbol used to indicate a trademark, a patent, copyright, etc., follow the guidelines in Policy Statement 1.4 and Policy Statement 1.7.5.

Follow the guidelines in Policy Statement 1.7.1.

LC practice/PCC practice: In the absence of explicit evidence that a true name change has taken place, consider that different usages found in publications are variants of one another, rather than true name changes, whenever the difference is minor. A difference is minor if the existing preferred name and the name in the resource being cataloged have minor differences such as:

However, if a variant name has already been treated as a name change, do not collapse multiple authorized access points into one authorized access point, unless there is additional, explicit evidence that only variant names are involved.

LC practice/PCC practice: If an authorized access point is needed for a proposed body, use the name found in the available resources as the preferred name. If the body is established later and the name differs from the proposed name, use the actual name in the authorized access point and treat the proposed name as a variant access point.

LC practice/PCC practice: Universities of North America frequently have main library buildings named in honor of someone (e.g., "The Joseph S. Regenstein Library of the University of Chicago") while the library complex itself is called by a generic term instead of the honorific (e.g., "The Libraries of the University of Chicago"). If the distinction between the building's name and the library's name can be made, use the library's name as the basis for the authorized access point even if it does not appear in the preferred source of information. Limit research beyond the resource to the most obvious reference sources.

LC practice/PCC practice: For names of corporate bodies that are located in countries where orthographic reform has taken place (Greece, Indonesia and Malaysia, the Netherlands, Soviet Union, etc.), if the first resource received gives the name of the corporate body in the old orthography, establish the name in that form; make a variant access point from the form in reformed orthography. When, subsequently, the first resource with the name in the reformed orthography is received, change the authorized access point to reflect the reformed orthography; consider making a variant access point from the earlier form.

LC practice/PCC practice: Record a transliterated form of the corporate name in authorized access points where applicable, following the ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts, approved by the Library of Congress and the American Library Association. Non-Latin forms that appear on the source may be recorded as variant access points in authority records (MARC field 4XX).

LC practice: Non-Latin forms that appear on the source may be recorded as parallel fields in bibliographic records (MARC field 880) for the languages/scripts in the MARC-8 repertoire of UTF-8; see Policy Statement for 1.4, first alternative for the scripts applicable in bibliographic recrords.

PCC practice: Follow the PCC Guidelines for Creating Bibliographic Records in Multiple Character Sets applicable to the PCC program; see Policy Statement for 1.4, first alternative for the scripts applicable in PCC bibliographic records.