Janet Swan Hill's report to the Subject Analysis Committee regarding the LC response to the LCWG 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 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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Deanna Marcum's response to the "On The Record" report of the LC working group (June 1, 2008)

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.

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.

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)

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."

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."

"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

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.