Library of Congress Update on Bibliographic Transition Initiative

1. LC Update to theAuthority Control Interest Group 2011 ALA Annual Conference Janis L. Young Policy and Standards DivisionLibrary of Congress jayo@loc.gov

2. 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

3. 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)

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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)

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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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15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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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20. New Subject Proposal System

21. 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

22. 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

23. MARC Coding for LCGFT • Over 700 existing authority records were cancelled and reissued • New LCCN prefix: gf • Deprecated LCCN retained in 010$z

24. MARC Coding for LCGFT • Coding in authority records 008/11: z 040$f: lcgft • Coding in bibliographic records 655 #7 $a [term]. $2 lcgft Example: 655 #7 $a Concordats. $2 lcgft

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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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