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From Cataloging Futures:
"Martha Yee has a new article available at the UC eScholarship repository, Cataloging, Compared to Descriptive Bibliography, Abstracting and Indexing Services and Metadata."
Denton, William. "FRBR and the History of Cataloging."
Chapter 4 in Understanding FRBR: What It Is and How It Will Affect Our Retrieval, edited by Taylor, Arlene G.
An explanation of where FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) comes from, given by a look at the work of librarians such as Panizzi, Cutter, Ranganathan, and Lubzetsky, and an examination of four themes in the history of library cataloging: the use of axioms to explain the purpose of catalogs, the importance of user needs, the idea of the "work," and standardization and internationalization.
September 26 - September 28, 2008
Renaissance Cleveland Hotel
Announcing the 13th bienniel Online Audiovisual Catalogers (OLAC) Conference. In 2008, the conference is being held jointly with the Music OCLC Users Group (MOUG). This year's conference is in Cleveland, Ohio and includes: Preconference: a one-day Map Cataloging Workshop on Thursday, September 25
A blast from the past (including good old electric erasers ;)
Now updated to include preservation and circulation artifacts, and other misc. library 'technology'
Sheila Bair - Technical Services Quarterly, 2005
Cataloging is the foundation of librarianship, and catalogers are professionals with special skills that set them apart from the profession in general and give them unique ethical responsibilities.
Thursday, May 29, 2008, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Keynote Address
Karen Calhoun, Vice President, OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services, will present an overview of the current state of cataloging and the future direction of bibliographic control.
"The full text of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) incorporating the amended definition of the expression entity as well as the errata identified to date has been made available on IFLANET in both PDF and HTML formats.
For the first time, the HTML versions of both the current text and the original 1998 text include the tables, rather than just references to the PDF version."
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."
The paper is intended to generate comments useful in making
recommendations for the future direction of PCC series practices and policies. Any individuals or organizations interested in series control policies, practices, and services are welcome to comment.
The task force membership and charges are available
from: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/archive/SeriesReviewTF.html
-from Oxford Reference Online
-from Oxford Reference Online
Full text of the well-known dictionaries published by Oxford University Press in a variety of subjects. Title list is available.
-from Oxford Reference Online
Draft Recommendations (October 2007)
The task force was charged with creating a set of best practices for coding MARC 008/lang and 041 language information for videos, especially DVDs, and with using that exercise to examine whether any changes could be made to the MARC format (coding or directions) that would improve access to the multiple types of language information found on videos.Originally intended to be an appendix to the 2002 AACR2 rule revisions, Differences Between, Changes Within evolved into a stand-alone document that supplements current descriptive cataloging rules by providing information about creating new records or updating existing records.
The document helps guide the cataloger in determining whether the item in hand can be cataloged with existing copy or requires a new bibliographic record. General guidelines are followed by specific guidelines for manifestation-level records for single-part monographs, multipart monographs, integrating resources, and serials. The text describes what constitutes a major difference between manifestations, requiring the creation of an original record, as well as detailing major changes within a serial manifestation that would lead to the creation of a new record. In addition, guidance is also provided to identify minor changes that would not require a new bibliographic record, but might necessitate updating an existing record.
The new edition of Differences Between, Changes Within reflects changes through the final set of amendments to AACR2, which were issued in 2005. Some guidelines have been changed and some removed. All rule references have been verified and updated wherever necessary."
"A reference card (4 pp.) listing (1) cataloging activities authorized for each OCLC authorization level, including Search, Limited, Full, and higher, and (2) types of master record updates authorized for Full and higher authorizations. Covers both the Connexion browser and client."
Especially note the last page which notes types of record updates possible (Minimal level upgrade, database enrichment, and enhance)
"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
With this document, the [CCS Executive Committee] hopes to provide catalogers and cataloging managers a tool for describing the critical importance of cataloging librarians.
Cataloging librarianship is, at its heart, about service. Cataloging librarians provide customer service, through their work, to thousands of users who use library catalogs and databases on a daily basis, as well as supporting future library users. They create coherent catalogs, which enable a reliable search experience for users, many of whom use the catalog remotely without access to a librarian who can interpret results or respond to questions."
Dated 6/2006; posted on ALCTS web 2007
Collections Define Cataloging's Future
B Simpson - The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2007 - Elsevier
Mostly a review of the literature, but also a call to change the focus of catalogers to work on special collections.
MW Lundy, DR Hollis - The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2004 - Elsevier
BM Russell - The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2004 - Elsevier
presentations from an ALCTS/CCS Forum, Jan. 21, 2007 from 8 to 10 am at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington
Save the date! The 2008 joint conference of OLAC (Online Audiovisual
Catalogers) and MOUG (Music OCLC Users Group) will take place in
Cleveland, Ohio, from Friday, September 26 - Sunday, September 28, 2008.
Preconference will occur Thursday, Sept. 25th.
A prototype of how RDA might work as an online tool
6/13/07 The co-publishers of RDA have created a short survey on user preferences for a print version of RDA.
Brief blog entry comparing tagging and controlled vocab.
"tagging has brought metadata to the masses"
And the harm this causes.
Roy Tennant sampled 856 fields in MARC records to see whether there is a reliable method of determining the availability of the full text access based on the coding the the 856. His results show wide variablity in the coding, and he argues for one consistant method to code for full text.
A new blog on the future of cataloging.
"The focus of this blog is the future of cataloging and metadata in libraries. The preparation of the new cataloging code, RDA: Resource Description and Access, is a significant issue. The future of the MARC 21 format will also be explored. ILS/OPAC's future will be touch on also, but will not be the central focus. Also, I hope to use this blog to collocate some of the important papers, articles, websites, etc. that deal with the future of cataloging and metadata.
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"The Program for Cooperative Cataloging 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."
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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.
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.
* March-June 2007: Review of revised chapter 3
* July-September 2007: Review of revised chapters 6-7
* December 2007-March 2008: Review of part B
* July-September 2008: Review of complete draft of RDA
RDA is scheduled for release in early 2009.
The virtual reality site Second Life has several virtual libraries and is now looking for catalogers to help with
creating a virtual catalog for their virtual resources [yes, this is for real - or is it???]
Empirical evidence regarding the utilization of MARC content designation in our current library information retrieval systems can contribute to discussions regarding the future of MARC and its place in the rapidly evolving networked information environment The absence of any solid empirical analysis in the past 30 years, beyond that of frequency of MARC tag use, is a major motivation for this study.
Provides information on how to do this same analysis on our own collection. Do we want to do this?
Created by the ALCTS CCS Committee on Education, Training and Recruitment for Cataloging (CETRC), this outline and bibliography is a useful tool for training catalogers. (PDF)
LC's Press release on Karen Calhoun's report "The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools"
PDF report at: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/calhoun-report-final.pdf
URL for white paper is: http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/sopag/BSTF/Final.pdf