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Library of Congress Report to Committee on Technical Processing CEAL Young Ki Lee

Library of Congress Report to Committee on Technical Processing CEAL Young Ki Lee Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division Library of Congress. Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division 2007 Statistics. Received : 53,979 items Completed : 61,707 items

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Library of Congress Report to Committee on Technical Processing CEAL Young Ki Lee

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  1. Library of Congress Report to Committee on Technical Processing CEAL Young Ki Lee Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division Library of Congress

  2. Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division2007 Statistics • Received : 53,979 items • Completed : 61,707 items • Copy cataloging : 15,376 items • Minimum level cataloging : 5,202 items • Collection level cataloging : 52 items

  3. Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division2007 Statistics • New Name Authorities: 12,061 • New Series Authorities: 110 • Modified Authorities: 4,406 • New Subject Authorities: 466 • Class Numbers Established: 521 • Bibliographic Records Changed: 7,107

  4. Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division2007 Statistics • Staff :73 • Working Backlog: 37,132 titles • Production of regular work :0.58 t/h

  5. Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division2007 Highlights • Combining Cataloging and Acquisitions (Pilot Project):Effective Nov. 26, 2007, all 18 African/Asian Acquisition staff members reassigned to RCCD • SRD staff reassigned to RCCD: several serials catalogers reassigned to RCCD

  6. Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division2007 Highlights • Transition From RLIN21 to Voyager • RLIN21 ceased: August 2007 • Voyager (Library of Congress system) • Transliterator

  7. Acquisitions2007 Highlights • Acquired 1,073,311(including CJK) pieces: through purchase, gift, exchange, or transfer from other government agencies • New electronic resources:included • China Times News Database • Database of the Chinese Government • Asian Geospatial Dataset • North Korea’s Newspaper & Journals Database • An official exchange agreement: with the National Assembly Library of Korea

  8. Acquisitions2007 Highlights • Acquire digital content • Science materials from Taiwan and for Macau publications

  9. Digital Table of Contents2007 Highlights • Total production: 86,000 TOCs • 28,692 titles added in FY07, including 2,126 Chinese, Japanese and Korean PDFs • 242 English summaries: in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean materials.

  10. Bibliographic Data from Vendors • “Bibliographic Services Agreement” • Japan Publications Trading Company (JPTC): 200 monographs in the areas of humanities and social sciences • Kinokuniya: 70 monographs in the area of science and technology

  11. Bibliographic Data from Vendors • China National Publishing Industry Trading Corporation (CNPITC) • Initial Bibliographic Control (IBC) records for some Chinese materials

  12. Bibliographic Data from Vendors • Eulyoo Publishing Company • A cooperative agreement for bibliographic services was signed in Oct. 2006. to purchase initial bibliographic control records. • Disrupted by the closure of the RLIN bibliographic utility

  13. Cataloging Policy and Support Office2007 Highlights Transition From RLIN21 to Voyager • Change in Practice for Spacing in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean • Frequently Asked Questions : Cataloging of Nonroman Script Materials at the Library of Congress in a Post-RLIN World

  14. Cataloging Policy and Support Office2007 Highlights • Non-roman data in Authority records • Discussing with NACO nodes • Implementation in April 2008, or later • White Paper: Issues Related to Non-Latin Characters in Name Authority Records • CJK script data for non-book materials, such as maps, music, posters, etc.

  15. Cataloging Policy and Support Office2007 Highlights • LC Classification Schedules • E-F (History: America) • H (Social Sciences) • M (Music) • N (Fine Arts) • PN (Literature General) • Q (Science) • T (Technology) • Classification Web (the official version) is updated daily, overnight

  16. Cataloging Policy and Support Office2007 Highlights • KNN (Chinese law) • Non-roman script (Chinese) added

  17. Chinese Team2007 Highlights • Received: 10,716 (-21%) • Completed: 12,369 (-3%) • Work on hand: 1,340 (-57%) • MLC increased 240% to 2,213, including 1,355 microforms • South Manchuria Railway Company Collection, Taiwan Election Collection, and the Overseas Chinese Activities Collection • “Subject headings and classification: handbook for Chinese catalogers”

  18. Japanese Team2007 Highlights • Received: 6,809 (+14%) • Completed: 8,225 (+40%) • Work on hand: 1,142 • Cataloged 126 Japanese rare art books selected from “Pre-Meiji Works in the Library” • Processed 1,208 Japanese serial titles from South Manchurian Railroad, published 1909-1944 • LC-CEAL Cataloging Internship

  19. Korean/Chinese Team2007 Highlights • Received: 6,667 (-11%) • Completed: 7,639 (+9%) • Work on hand: 546 • 120 titles of Rare Korean religious materials from the late 19th century and early 20th century • Revision of the Korean romanization and word division guidelines

  20. Reorganization of ABA Directorate(Plan) Directorate management plan to implement the reorganization at the start of fiscal year 2009

  21. Thank You

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