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Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

This project pulls together the official documents from the LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, along with various commentary on the open meetings. Report issued: Jan. 10, 2008 Follow-ups announced: Oct. 30, 2009

LC Cutter Table: Basic

Version of LC'c cutter table with examples

Guidelines for using the LC Online Shelflist and formulating a literary author number: Program for Cooperative Cataloging

Decision regarding the final disposition of LCSH headings for video recordings

From Catalogablog:

LC has published Decision regarding the final disposition of LCSH headings for video recordings. In summary, the decisions are:

Topical headings (MARC tag 150) denoting a genre or form of video recording will be cancelled in favor of the correlated film headings;
The heading Video mini-series will be revised to Film mini-series and the heading Television mini-series will be retained;
The existing topical heading Interactive video will be made plural and a genre/form heading will be created; and,
Genre/form headings for Internet videos, podcasts, and webisodes will be created.

Metadata for Digital Content (MDC)

Developing institution-wide policies and standards at the Library of Congress

Note links to

A master metadata element list with recommendations on best practices for populating the elements to provide more consistency of new metadata creation throughout the institution, support the Library of Congress metadata use cases, and point to areas where metadata remediation of current metadata might be beneficial.

Profiles that draw from the master list for specific applications or projects.

Study of the North American MARC Records Marketplace

R2's commissioned report for the Library of Congress

On the Record Report Recommendations LC Should Pursue Over the Next 4 Years

LC's internal working group responds to "On The Record"

REVISION OF HEADINGS FOR COOKING AND COOKBOOKS

Finally LC is reviewing the out-dated "Coookery" subject heading. Deadline for comments is Dec. 1, 2009

Expanding the Power of the Library's Family of Vocabularies: Genre/Form Headings Webcast (Library of Congress)

SPEAKER: Janis Young
EVENT DATE: 07/02/2009
RUNNING TIME: 53 minutes

DESCRIPTION:

In 2007, the Library of Congress embarked upon a project to create a system of genre/form headings, which describe what a work is rather than what it is about, as subject headings do. This presentation will explain the motivations for undertaking the project, including the need to anticipate the linked data requirements of the new generation of search engines and user interfaces, and also enumerate the authority record distribution channels, which furnish data for both human use and for data mining and computer manipulation. In addition, the presentation will address the practical impacts of this project on LC staff and users alike.

Cataloging Service Bulletin

Back issues of CSB (1978 to current) available as free PDF download

Bibliographic Record Production - R2's investigation and analysis of the MARC record

The Library of Congress has retained R2 Consulting, LLC to research and describe the US and Canadian "marketplace" for cataloging records and we need your help.

RSS Feeds and Email Subscriptions (Library of Congress)

A variety of RSS feeds available from the Library of Congress:

Categories:

General News
Site Updates
Events
For Librarians
For Teachers Collections Preservation
Copyright
Digital Preservation
Folklife
Legal Journalism
Poetry
Science
Veterans History
Visual Resources

Cataloging Service Bulletin

"All 123 issues of Cataloging Service Bulletin (CSB) are now available at no cost. CSB is a quarterly bulletin that includes current, new, and revised information about LC cataloging and classification practices and policies. CSB lists revised AACR2 rules, LC Rule Interpretations, changes to the ALA/LC Romanization tables, changes to the LC Subject Headings, and includes "Cataloging Publication News" and "News of Cataloging Projects," and more."

Authorities

"The Library of Congress has opened its ID.LOC.GOV web service, Authorities and Vocabularies, with the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) as the initial offering. The primary goal of this service is to enable machines to programmatically access data at the Library of Congress but the web interface also provides simple user access. We view this service as a step toward exposing and interconnecting vocabulary and thesaurus data via URLs. For LCSH, we are fortunate to have been able to link terms to a similar service provided in Europe for RAMEAU, a French subject heading vocabulary closely coordinated with LCSH.

We are very interested to get feedback on the uses and usefulness of the service to inform ways that we might enhance it. (There is a comment form at the site.). Over the next few months we will also be expanding it to other vocabularies commonly found in standards that the Library supports such as the Thesaurus of Graphic Materials, geographic area, language, and relator codes, and preservation events and roles. "

ALA-LC Romanization Tables

Links are to the scanned text of the 1997 edition of the ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts, approved by the Library of Congress and the American Library Association, with the some exceptions

Library Commissions Bibliographic Study (Library of Congress)

"The Library of Congress today announced the next phase of its investigation into the creation and distribution of bibliographic data in U.S. and Canadian libraries. The Library has commissioned a study to research and describe the current marketplace for cataloging records in the MARC format, with primary focus on the economics of current practices, including existing incentives and barriers to both contribution and availability. The study will be carried out by R2 Consulting LLC of Contoocook, N.H."

ID.LOC.GOV Web Service (For Librarians and Archivists, Library of Congress)

"This site serves as a placeholder for forthcoming web services that will enable both humans and machines to programmatically access authority data at the Library of Congress. The initial services offered are influenced by -- and therefore implement -- the Linked Data movement's approach of exposing and inter-connecting data on the Web via dereferenceable URIs. We aim to make resources available on this site within 6-8 weeks. Check this site regularly for more updates as we continue to develop this service!
Scope

The scope of this web service is to provide access to commonly found standards and vocabularies promulgated by the Library of Congress. This includes data values and the controlled vocabularies that house them. The main application will provide resolvability to values and vocabularies by assigning URIs. Each vocabulary will possess a resolvable URI, as will each data value within it. "

Resource Description and Access (RDA) Webcasts

"In a series of webcasts, Dr. Barbara Tillett, Chief, Policy and Standards Division of the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate, presents information about Resource Description and Access (RDA), the next generation cataloging code. Presentations currently available include one providing background and an overview of RDA, and one on the cataloging principles of RDA. Future presentations will focus on Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records (FRBR), Functional Requirements of Authority Data (FRAD), and the content and structure of RDA. "

Cataloging and Acquisitions (Library of Congress)

Home page of LC's Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate

Library of Congress Classification Outline

Library Merges Acquisition, Cataloging Functions - The Library Today (Library of Congress)

"The new organizational structure--the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate (ABA)--fully merges acquisitions and cataloging functions, streamlines workflows and deploys staff to take advantage of their unique language and subject skills"

Report to Subject Analysis Committee regarding LCWG

Janet Swan Hill's report to the Subject Analysis Committee regarding the LC response to the LCWG report.

Moving Image Genre/Form Project Report

7/10/08

On July 9th, 2008, the Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) presented a report on the moving image genre/form project to the Library of Congress Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access (ABA) management team. The report includes recommendations for expanding the genre/form project beyond the moving image and radio program headings assigned and created by LC's Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Divison. ABA management has approved this expansion to include other disciplines and CPSO will be releasing further details on implementation strategies as these are developed.

Cataloger's Learning Workshop

"Cataloger's Learning Workshop is a clearinghouse portal for cataloging and metadata training resources for information workers. The scope of Cataloger's Learning Workshop includes bibliographic information training in the context of formal library and information science degree programs, as well as continuing education for library practitioners. Cataloger's Learning Workshop is a cooperative project of the Library of Congress, the Program for Cooperative Cataloging, and the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, a division of the American Library Association.
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Response to On The Record

Deanna Marcum's response to the "On The Record" report of the LC working group (June 1, 2008)

Draft Report of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (Library of Congress)

Cataloging Principles and RDA: Resource Description and Access Webcast (Library of Congress)

TITLE: Cataloging Principles and RDA: Resource Description and Access

SPEAKER: Barbara Tillett
EVENT DATE: 06/10/2008
RUNNING TIME: 49 minutes

DESCRIPTION:

The second in a series on RDA: Resource Description and Access, the next generation cataloging code designed for the digital environment. This presentation deals with the cataloging principles that have influenced the development of RDA; the challenges they present to the international sharing of bibliographic and authority data; and the challenges they present to the developers of RDA.

Resource Description and Access: Background / Overview Webcast (Library of Congress)

TITLE: Resource Description and Access: Background / Overview

SPEAKER: Barbara Tillett
EVENT DATE: 05/14/2008
RUNNING TIME: 67 minutes

DESCRIPTION:

RDA (Resource Description and Access), the next generation cataloging code designed for the digital environment, is under development. This presentation provides background on its development and a general overview of the conceptual models, international principles, and structure of this new code.

RDA Joint Statement

Resource Description and Access (RDA): Joint Statement of the Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine, and the National Agricultural Library on Resource Description and Access (May 1, 2008)

Cataloging Distribution Service (CDS) - Library of Congress

Cataloging of Nonroman Script Materials at the Library of Congress in a Post-RLIN World

"This deals with with Library of Congress procedures and workflows now that the Library has moved its processing of non-roman materials to its Voyager database.

PCC members will find the information in questions 3--6 relevant to matters of languages, dual fields, bi-directionality, spacing, and the eventual use of non-roman data in authority records."

Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (Library of Congress)

Library Matters: Report of the LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

Anthony Franks posts his notes from the ALCTS Catalog Management Discussion Group at ALA Midwinter on the report of the LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

Library of Congress LCCN Permalink

LC has made it possible to make a permanant link to any bibliographic record in their catalog

My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven

LC adds 3,000 images to Flickr and invites the public to tag them

LC classification game

A web game to shelve books by LC classification. Fun, but they seem to have some letter combinations which don't exist in LCC

Library of Congress Report Urges Libraries to Update Cataloging Strategies - Chronicle.com

The Chronicle covers the LC Working Group report!

Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

Final report of the WG was released on Jan. 10, 2008

Fred 2.0 - Phase I: LC Authorities Files

This is the "read me" file about how Simon Spero harvested 6.95 million authority records from LC. Records are available in MARCXML at http://www.ibiblio.org/fred2.0/authorities/

Library of Congress Authority Files, Open!

"So begins the PDF announcing and detailing a major new development for the library-data world. Simon Spero, library-geek extraordinaire, has released a nearly complete copy of the Library of Congress Authority Files.

Get them here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/fred2.0/authorities/

Simon assembled the files, available in MarcXML, by querying the Library of Congress' Authorities website one-by-one over months. He's a patient man."

Webcast for November 13, 2007 Meeting in Washington, D.C. - Interim Draft Report and Recommendations (Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, Library of Congress)

Web page now has links to both the webcast and PP slides from the event

Will The Response Of The Library Profession To The Internet Be Self-Immolation?

Will The Response Of The Library Profession To The Internet Be Self-Immolation?
by Martha M. Yee, with a great deal of help from Michael Gorman

LC Implementation Plans for Access Level MARC/AACR Records

"This group recommended a new level of cataloging, emphasizing data elements that allow catalog users to search for and find records, while de-emphasizing data elements that have traditionally been used in full level records to describe and identify the resource but are not as relevant to remote access electronic resources, or do not support resource discovery."

Site includes links to the report, Mandatory Data Elements, Draft Cataloging Guidelines and several PP presentations about the project

Agenda for July 9, 2007 Meeting in Washington, DC - Economics and Organization of Bibliographic Data (Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, Library of Congress)

Agenda for the 3rd open meeting of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

Users and Uses of Bibliographic Data Meeting - Meetings - (Library of Congress)

Summary of the first meeting

May 9, 2007 Brief Meeting Summary - Structures and Standards in Bibliographic Data (Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, Library of Congress)

Summary of second meeting

Economics and Organization of Bibliographic Data

Background paper for 3rd meeting

Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (Library of Congress)

Home page for the working group.

Genre/Form Authority Records

Library of Congress Cataloging Distribution Service will begin to issue genre/form authority records (MARC 21 tag 155) no earlier than September 3, 2007

Cataloging and Acquisitions (Library of Congress)

New (1/07) website at LC

Cataloging Contacts at the Library of Congress

Useful list of who to contact about different cataloging-related topics at LC

Subject Headings or Keywords? Google, Microsoft Join LC Working Group on Bibliographic Control - December 7, 2006 - Library Journal

Library Journal's take on the LC working group on Future of Bibliographic Control.

Interesting that the represented group include Google and Microsoft, in addition to the regular library reps.

Group Established To Discuss Bibliographic Control Future - The Library Today (Library of Congress)

The Library of Congress announced a Working Group to discuss the future of Bibliographic Control.

They will sponser several regional forums to gather info. and release a draft report for comments by Sept 2007,

with a final report by Nov. 2007

I believe that this is the follow-up promised following the announcement of the changes in series access

announced earlier in 2006.

Inside Higher Ed :: Calling Melvil Dewey

Believe it or not--Inside Higher Ed reports on a cataloging topic! The article is a basic summary of the LC series decision with references to the Karen Calhoun report and Thomas Mann's rebutal.

OCLC's Response to the Library of Congress Decision [OCLC]

How OCLC will change record loading protocals, etc. to allow fuller versions of records to remain in the database, and not be overwritten by LC records with untraced series. Libraries will also be allowed to change series in LC records to match series authority records.

Frequently Asked Questions about Series: Program for Cooperative Cataloging

Revised series FAQ

Series at the Library of Congress: June 1, 2006

The final version of LC's series policy as implemented

LC series FAQ (pdf)

LC issued this FAQ 5/31/06 in preparation for their implementation of the new series policy

ALCTS issues statement on the Library of Congress Series Authority Record Decision

ALCTS response to the LC series policy

LC Professional Guild, AFSCME 2910 resolution on LC's Series Decision

PDF file: LC Professional Guild, AFSCME 2910 resolution on LC's Series Decision

ALA | ALA urges more deliberation, library involvement in Library of Congress

ALA Council's response to LC's series decision

LC Series Treatment Decision

Implementation delay until June 1 2006

LC Series Treatment Decision

Prevent the Library of Congress From Abandoning the Creation of Series Authority Records Petition