LC Update to theAuthority Control Interest Group

Janis L. YoungPolicy and Standards Division

Library of Congressjayo@loc.gov

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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