From: Karen Wilson <fnkmw1@uaf.edu>
Subject: [Fwd: LCCN Vol. 16, no. 4]
Date: July 8th 2008

                      LC CATALOGING NEWSLINE
            Online Newsletter of Bibliographic Access
                       Library of Congress
Volume 16, no. 4          ISSN 1066-8829                June 2008
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                             CONTENTS

                  ABA Recruiting Division Chiefs
    LC Endorses Recommendations of Library of Congress Working
           Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
  Joint Statement of U.S. National Libraries on RDA Development
    Report of the Joint Meeting of BIBCO and CONSER Operations
  Representatives Held May 1-2, 2008, at the Library of Congress
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                  ABA RECRUITING DIVISION CHIEFS

     The Library has posted vacancy announcements to fill the
positions of chiefs for the following Acquisitions and
Bibliographic Access (ABA) divisions: European and Latin American
Acquisitions Division (vacancy announcement no. 080120), History
and Literature Cataloging Division (vacancy announcement no.
080122), and Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division (vacancy
announcement no. 080121).  More information is available at URL
<http://www.loc.gov/hr/employment/index.php?action=cMain.showJobs>
[June 2008]. The deadline for applications is June 30, 2008.
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    LC ENDORSES RECOMMENDATIONS OF LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WORKING
           GROUP ON THE FUTURE OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC CONTROL
 
     Associate Librarian for Library Services Deanna Marcum issued
the Library of Congress's response to On the Record, the report of
the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of
Bibliographic Control, on June 1.  The working group offers more
than 100 specific recommendations, organized under five general
recommendations: (1) Increase the efficiency of bibliographic
production and maintenance for all libraries through cooperation
and sharing; (2) Enhance access to rare, unique, and other special
hidden materials; (3) Position our technology for the future; (4)
Position our community for the future; (5) Strengthen the library
and information science.  The Library of Congress embraces the
Working Group's recommendations, which were submitted to Dr. Marcum
in final form on Jan. 9, 2008, just prior to the American Library
Association (ALA) 2008 Midwinter Meeting.  Members of the Working
Group met with Dr. Marcum and Beacher Wiggins, director for
Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access, on June 6 at the Library of
Congress to discuss the Library's response.  Members agreed, at Dr.
Marcum's request, to continue as informal advisors to the Library
as the Library follows up on the recommendations in the report. 

     Dr. Marcum convened the working group in November 2006 to
examine the future of bibliographic description in the 21st
century.  More information on the Working Group, including the
Library's response to the report, is available at a special public
Website, URL <http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future> [June 2008].
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  JOINT STATEMENT OF U.S. NATIONAL LIBRARIES ON RDA DEVELOPMENT

     The Library of Congress has been very active in development of
_Resource Description and Access_, the planned successor to the
_Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules_, 2nd ed.  Concerns raised by the
LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control led to a
joint meeting of managers of LC and the two other U.S. national
libraries, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National
Agricultural Library (NAL), on March 10, 2008.  The representatives
of the three national libraries agreed that the development of RDA
is an important international initiative that has involved the
resources of libraries in many countries for the past several
years.  The three U.S. national libraries agreed on a joint
commitment to the further development and completion of RDA, with
decisions on implementation to be made jointly after review and
testing of the completed code.  The text of the three libraries'
joint statement is available online at URL
<http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-
future/news/RDA_Letter_050108.pdf> [June 2008]. 

     Representatives of NAL, NLM, and LC met on June 9 to begin to
define the scope and nature of the testing of RDA that will be
conducted as part of this agreement.
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    REPORT OF THE JOINT MEETING OF BIBCO AND CONSER OPERATIONS
  REPRESENTATIVES HELD MAY 1-2, 2008, AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

  Operation representatives from BIBCO and CONSER, the two
bibliographic record programs of the Program for Cooperative
Cataloging (PCC), held joint and separate meetings May 1-2, 2008.
This report provides highlights from the joint meetings. Summaries
of the separate program meetings will be available in the near
future.

Update on RDA

  The operations representatives were given an update on the
April 2008 meeting of the Joint Steering Committee for Development
of RDA (JSC) by Barbara Tillett, LC representative to JSC. Many of
meeting outcomes reported by Dr. Tillett are posted on the JSC Web
site: <http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/0804out.html> [June
2008]. Constituent review is expected to take place between August
2008 and October 2008 and an early 2009 release date is still on
target. The final online product will include "workflows" that
provide simple instructions to walk a cataloger through creating
bibliographic and authority records. It will probably be possible
for groups such as the PCC to specify guidelines for applying RDA
and share this within the online product, but more will be known
about this capability as the product nears completion. 

Provider Neutral Records for Online Monographs

  BIBCO members are considering a new proposal to develop
guidelines for online monographs. CONSER members shared their
experiences in developing guidelines for provider neutral records
for online serials. The provider neutral approach calls for one
record to represent the online version of a resource, even if it is
delivered simultaneously in several packages. The approach reduces
the number of duplicate records in the national database for
essentially the same resource and facilitates local tracking of
resources. BIBCO members agreed to form a group to determine
requirements, timeline, and steps for implementing a policy for
provider neutral record for online monographs.

PCC Guidelines for Cataloging Integrating Resources

CONSER and BIBCO representatives discussed the 2008 revision of
_Integrating Resources: A Cataloging Manual_
<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/bibco/irman.pdf> [June 2008]. The
manual is used by members of both programs to create records for
integrating resources and share record maintenance. The 2008
revision reflects new coding practices for integrating resources
and the current WorldCat cataloging environment of PCC libraries
since RLG and OCLC merged in 2006. Representatives discussed
potential guidelines including advice on the number of records
needed for different language versions of an online integrating
resource.

LC Response to the Report of the Library of Congress Working Group
on the Future of Bibliographic Control

Beacher Wiggins provided an update on LC's response to _On the
Record: Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on the
Future of Bibliographic Control_ <http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-
future/news/> [June 2008].

Adding Non-Latin Script Data to Name Authority Records

  Dave Reser (LC) provided an update on a project to add non-
Latin script references to records in the name authority file. The
name authority file will be "pre-populated" with non-Latin forms of
corporate names as references. OCLC will derive the references from
non-Latin forms of names found on bibliographic records and will
add them to at least 400,000 name authority records.  The project
will begin no earlier than June 1, 2008 [later revised to mid-July]
and will provide for a six month evaluation period. PCC members
were asked to observe the results of the pre-population project
this summer and consider the policy and practice questions that are
raised in the _White Paper: Issues Related to Non-Latin Characters
in Name Authority Records_
<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/nonlatin_whitepaper.html> [June
2008]. 

Adding Non-Latin Script Data to Bibliographic Records

  Standing Committee on Standards chair Joan Schuitema, led
representatives in a discussion on unified PCC guidelines for
adding non-Latin script data to bibliographic records. A joint
BIBCO/CONSER task force will be charged to begin work on the
requirements and format for these guidelines. John Levy (LC) gave
members an overview of the recently revised _CONSER Editing Guide,
Appendix O, Creating Records with Data in Non-Roman Script for CJK
Serials_ <http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/pdf/ceg/AppendixO.2008.pdf>
[June 2008]. The revision resolves some of the differing practices
among monograph and serials catalogers adding non-Latin script data
to bibliographic records and will become a model for guides to
adding other non-Latin scripts. A guide to adding non-Latin script
data to Cyrillic language bibliographic records is under
development by LC Serial Record Division staff and follows a
similar format. 

Standing Committee Charges

  The PCC Standing Committee Chairs, Adolfo Tarango (University
of California, San Diego), Standing Committee on Automation (SCA);
Joan Schuitema (University of Illinois at Chicago) Standing
Committee on Standards (SCS); and Caroline Miller (University of
California, Los Angeles), Standing Committee on Training (SCT) led
a discussion on the projects that would be useful to pursue and
overall charges of their groups. One idea was for the SCA and the
SCS to increase vendor involvement in the activities, membership,
and task groups of the committees. Examples include being sure to
include vendors in the development of guidelines for batch loading
of records.
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