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LC Update to the Authority Control Interest Group Janis L. Young Policy and Standards Division Library of Congress [email protected] 2011 ALA Annual Conference
LC Update to theAuthority Control Interest Group
Janis L. YoungPolicy and Standards Division
Library of [email protected]
2011 ALA Annual Conference
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RDA Decision
• U.S. national libraries will implement RDA no earlier than January 2013, – Contingent upon satisfactory progress/completion
of the tasks and actions identified in the report of the US RDA Test Coordinating Committee
• LC’s RDA testers will resume cataloging using RDA in November, 2011
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LC Policy Statements• PSD and the PCC will resume work on LCPSs
– Will reflect decisions informed by the RDA Test
• LCPSs are available freely– LC’s web site
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/RDAtest/rda_lcps.html
– RDA Toolkit– (Also available through Cataloger’s Desktop
subscription)
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Bibliographic FrameworkTransition Initiative
• Charge to the committee– To analyze the present and future environment
for bibliographic data – To identify the components of the bibliographic
framework to support library users– To plan for the evolution from the present
framework to the future
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Bibliographic FrameworkTransition Initiative
• A collaborative effort– Partners and customers in the metadata
community– Standards experts inside and outside libraries– Designers and builders of systems that make use
of library metadata
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Bibliographic FrameworkTransition Initiative
• Input mechanisms– Meetings at ALA conferences and specialized
library association conferences– Town hall meetings open to the metadata
community– Invitational meetings of experts and stakeholders
in 2012 and 2013
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Bibliographic FrameworkTransition Initiative
• Web site: www.loc.gov/marc/transition – Central place for plans, news, and progress of the
MARC Transition Initiative – Action plan draft will be available about
September 2011
• Electronic discussion group, BIBFRAME
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Romanization Tables
• New romanization tables for Vai and Judeo-Arabic are posted at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html
• Revisions to the table for Thai are being reviewed by the Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia (CORMOSEA) and CCS Committee on Cataloging: Asian and African Materials (CC:AAM)
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Romanization Tables
• PSD is converting older romanization tables to Microsoft Word
• The first seven will be available on PSD’s web site soon
• The new format will– Produce much more legible romanization tables
for online consultation– Facilitate future revisions
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VIAF
• There are now 18 participants in VIAF, with another four in the testing stage
• VIAF includes authority data for– Personal names– Corporate bodies– Jurisdictions
• OCLC is now VIAF’s administrator and will ensure its long-term free availability
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Library of Congress Authorities
• Labeled display of http://authorities.loc.gov has been updated– Specifies type of heading– Shows new MARC data elements defined for RDA
• Entire MARC record still available in the MARC display
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Library of Congress Authorities
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Library of Congress Authorities
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Library of Congress Authorities
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PSD Staffing Change
• Paul Weiss retired in February 2011, after 37 years of service to LC
• Currently three subject specialists in PSD– Libby Dechman– Gerry Ostrove– Janis Young
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Subject and ClassificationTentative Lists
• As of June 20, 2011, lists are monthly– Increase efficiency and streamline workflows– Turnaround on proposals is now 8-12 weeks– Same average number of proposals will be
approved each month• Some weekly MDS Subject Authorities files may not
contain records
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New Subject Proposal System
• Will be implemented no earlier than July 18, 2011– For LCSH, LCGFT and Children’s Subject Heading
proposals• LC catalogers and SACO participants will use
the same input mechanism– Web-based– Similar to the Classification Proposal System– Same passwords will be used for both systems
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New Subject Proposal System
• Will allow for increased efficiency in PSD, e.g.,– Automatically checks for “backdoor” headings– Templates default to the correct geographic
subdivision notation (008/06) where possible– Eliminates “record juggling” in Voyager– Requires less manual editing of Tentative Lists
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New Subject Proposal System
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New Subject Proposal System
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Tibet
• Name and subject headings for Tibet have been revised to conform to AACR2 and LCSH policies– Tibet: Jurisdiction of Tibet prior to September 1, 1965– Tibet Autonomous Region (China): Current jurisdiction of
Tibet– Tibet Region: Geographic region that extends from China
into India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Burma– Tibet, Plateau of: Plateau that extends from China into
Nepal and India
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Netherlands Antilles• Netherlands Antilles was dissolved into its
constituent parts in October 2010– Bonaire– Curaçao– Saba– Sint Eustatius– Sint Maarten
• LCSH revisions will appear on Tentative List 22, dated July 18, 2011
• Revisions to jurisdictional name headings was completed in December 2010
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MARC Coding for LCGFT
• Over 700 existing authority records were cancelled and reissued– New LCCN prefix: gf– Deprecated LCCN retained in 010$z
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MARC Coding for LCGFT
• Coding in authority records008/11: z040$f: lcgft
• Coding in bibliographic records655 #7 $a [term]. $2 lcgft
Example:655 #7 $a Concordats. $2 lcgft
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Law Genre/Form Project
• LC implemented law genre/form terms on June 15, 2011– Chiefly applied to English-language works– Terms assigned in copy cataloging records will be
retained and/or revised, according to standard policy
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Music Genre/Form Project
• LC continues to partner with the Music Library Association– Developing syntactic relationships among the
agreed-upon terms– Investigating the coding of medium of
performance in the MARC record• MARBI Discussion Paper 2011-DP05
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Religion Genre/Form Project
• LC continues to partner with the American Theological Library Association– ATLA plans to forward its thesaurus to PSD later
this year
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