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Bugs in Amber | Metadata Matters

Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

This project pulls together the official documents from the LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, along with various commentary on the open meetings. Report issued: Jan. 10, 2008 Follow-ups announced: Oct. 30, 2009

The Metadata is the Interface

The Metadata is the Interface: Better Description for Better Discovery of Archives and Special Collections,
Synthesized from User Studies

Jennifer Schaffner
Program Officer OCLC Research

why is cataloging hard?

Great piece on what's professional about cataloging and what needs to change

PCC Announces Implementation of BIBCO Standard Record

The PCC Policy Committee (PoCo) has set January 4, 2010 as the implementation date for the BIBCO Standard Record (BSR) guidelines for printed books as outlined in the Final Report of the Task Group on BIBCO Standard Record Requirements

Cooperative Cataloging Rules

About this Site and How to Use It:
This is a cooperative site originally created by James Weinheimer as an alternative to accepting RDA. The basic idea is to have a site where the current rules can continue to be updated. There are also the related Google Groups site, and the Blog. For more information, see the Official Announcement

YBP/OCLC Cataloging Plus

The Battle of RDA: Victors or Victims

Nice presentation on RDA from Rick J. Block, Head, Special Collections Metadata and Cataloging, Columbia University

Outgoing: Bibliographic Statistics 2009

Some interesting statistics about how MARC usage has changed in recent OCLC cataloging--perhaps due to the influx of non-US cataloging

Study of the North American MARC Records Marketplace

R2's commissioned report for the Library of Congress

On the Record Report Recommendations LC Should Pursue Over the Next 4 Years

LC's internal working group responds to "On The Record"

Reports Released on Bibliographic Record Production - The Library Today (Library of Congress)

"The Library of Congress is releasing today (10/30/09) the results of its analysis of the creation and distribution of bibliographic data in U.S. and Canadian libraries.

The Library commissioned R2 Consulting LLC of Contoocook, N.H., to search and describe the current marketplace for cataloging records in the MARC format, with primary focus on the economics of current practices, including existing incentives and barriers to both contribution and availability."

No More Romanizing: The Attempt to Be Less Anglocentric in RDA - Cataloging

Abstract
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed. (AACR2) rule 1.0E1 allows title and statement of responsibility, edition, publication and/or distribution data, and series title to be "transcribed from the item itself in the language and script (wherever practicable) in which it appears there." However, AACR2 will be replaced by a set of guidelines entitled Resource Description and Access (RDA). This article compares various guidelines from the November 2008 draft of RDA that are applicable to transcribing titles and names written in non-roman languages and/or scripts with their counterparts in its predecessor.

Electronic Scriptorium

"Electronic Scriptorium, Ltd., provides a full line of metadata management services to world class businesses and institutions. We offer metadata modeling, taxonomy and ontology design, controlled vocabulary services and descriptive cataloging for digital assets. Let's talk about how to improve your enterprise-wide metadata model or strategies for increasing ROI from digital assets."

SkyRiver Technology Solutions

SkyRiver --a new cataloging utility --website is now live, but not much there --a demo would be nice, even if it was canned

New Company SkyRiver Sparks Cataloging Competition with OCLC - 10/6/2009 - Library Journal

SkyRiver -- a new competitor for OCLC cataloging services -- with ties to Innovative Interfaces

Record Use Policy Council [OCLC]

OCLC has appointed a new council to develop a new records use policy--hopefully this will be an open process unlike the last go-round.

Typographical errors in library databases

Best Links for RDA

A nice listing of links related to RDA

Ten Reasons Why Cataloging Librarians Make Natural Programmers | OpenGovInfo.net

Cataloging Service Bulletin

Back issues of CSB (1978 to current) available as free PDF download

Creating catalogues: bibliographic records in a networked world | RIN

"The Web 2.0 environment provides the opportunity for innovative use of freely available datasets and, not least in the UK, there is increasing interest from Government in making information created by public sector organisations more widely available for re-use, in order to generate greater economic benefit, social gain and improvements to public services.

These developments are creating a complex landscape for the creation and use of the traditional bibliographical data"

Bibliographic Record Production - R2's investigation and analysis of the MARC record

The Library of Congress has retained R2 Consulting, LLC to research and describe the US and Canadian "marketplace" for cataloging records and we need your help.

Educating Cataloging Professionals in a Changing Information Environment

AUTHOR: Ingrid Hsieh-Yee
TITLE: Educating Cataloging Professionals in a Changing Information Environment
SOURCE: Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 49 no2 93-106 Spr 2008

"The information environment of the twenty-first century is highly competitive. This article addresses how cataloging education should be provided for the profession to stay relevant and competitive in the digital age. To provide a context for considering cataloging education, it describes important changes and trends in the information environment and summarizes discussions and debates within the profession. It identifies competencies cataloging professionals need to develop and offers strategies to ensure the future of the cataloging profession. Specifically, it discusses how to raise awareness and appreciation for information organization among students and non-cataloging educators, how to prepare graduates with different levels of expertise in information organization, how to cultivate leaders for the profession and produce more cataloging educators, how to collaborate in teaching and researching information organization issues, and how to engage stakeholders -- practitioners, educators, employers, funders, and professional groups -- in the preparation of cataloging professionals."

Streamline Book Metadata Workflow White Paper

Streamlining Book Metadata Workflow
by Judy Luther (Informed Strategies)

Abstract: The white paper was commissioned by NISO and OCLC as a follow-up to the Symposium for Publishers and Librarians held by OCLC on March 18-19, 2009 to discuss book metadata. This paper analyzes the current state of metadata creation, exchange, and use throughout the book supply chain. With the number of book formats multiplying and the amount of digital content growing rapidly, the metadata required to support the discovery, sale, and use of content by a global audience is increasing exponentially. At the same time economic pressures on all stakeholders in the supply chain from publishers, wholesalers, booksellers, metadata vendors, and librarians present greater challenges to providing quality and comprehensive metadata at every point in the cycle. Through interviews with over 30 industry representatives, Luther has created a book metadata exchange map illustrating the process and has identified opportunities for eliminating redundancies and making the entire process more efficient.

The Ethics of Information Organization

Videos now available:

May 22-23, 2009
Milwaukee Central Library, Centennial Hall
Milwaukee, WI

Information organization (IO), like other major functions of the information profession, faces many ethical challenges. In the IO literature, ethical concerns have been raised with regard to, for example, the role of national and international IO standards, providing subject access to information, deprofessionalization and outsourcing of IO, education of IO professionals, and the effects of globalization. These issues, and others like them, have serious implications for quality and equity in information access. The Center for Information Policy Research and the Information Organization Research Group at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee join in presenting this conference to address the ethics of information organization.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Clare Beghtol, Professor
University of Toronto, Canada

José Augusto Chaves Guimarães, Professor
Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil

Janet Swan Hill, Professor, Associate Director for Technical Services, University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries, USA

Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA

New website for the JSC

Cataloging Service Bulletin

"All 123 issues of Cataloging Service Bulletin (CSB) are now available at no cost. CSB is a quarterly bulletin that includes current, new, and revised information about LC cataloging and classification practices and policies. CSB lists revised AACR2 rules, LC Rule Interpretations, changes to the ALA/LC Romanization tables, changes to the LC Subject Headings, and includes "Cataloging Publication News" and "News of Cataloging Projects," and more."

Final Report of the Task Group on BIBCO Standard Record Requirements

This final report reflects the comments from the BIBCO community as they relate to the TG charge to define a set of required elements for bibliographic records for monographs using a single encoding level. Our tasks were:
• to develop a "model" for bibliographic records using a single encoding level to replace the BIBCO full and core levels
•to use the BIBCO core level record as a starting point, and
•to focus on a model for the printed monograph to be used as a basis for models for other formats

The Cataloging Calculator

Tool for catalogers allows searching for MARC tags; assigning cutters; etc.

OCLC Members Council Record Use Policy Update

The Review Board on the proposed OCLC Record Use Policy made an interim report to the Members' Council on Monday May 18, 2009.

Jennifer Younger, the Chair of the Board, gave our report and it has been recorded. The podcast and the accompanying PowerPoint slides are on the Review Board's web page: http://www.oclc.org/us/en/worldcat/catalog/policy/board/default.htm

Biblios.org: Open Source Cataloging

Library Commissions Bibliographic Study (Library of Congress)

"The Library of Congress today announced the next phase of its investigation into the creation and distribution of bibliographic data in U.S. and Canadian libraries. The Library has commissioned a study to research and describe the current marketplace for cataloging records in the MARC format, with primary focus on the economics of current practices, including existing incentives and barriers to both contribution and availability. The study will be carried out by R2 Consulting LLC of Contoocook, N.H."

International Cataloguing Principles - IFLA Cataloguing Section

A revision of the Paris Principles

Expert Community Experiment [OCLC - Quality control]

"In response to requests from the cataloging community, OCLC is introducing the Expert Community Experiment, which enables cataloging members to make more changes to WorldCat records. During the Experiment, members with full-level cataloging authorizations have the ability to improve and upgrade WorldCat master records. The Experiment begins in February 2009 and lasts six months."

This is OCLC's response to the question 'what if WorldCat were more like Wikipedia'--I wonder how succesful this will be, considering the questions asked during the webinar. It was clear that many of the participants hadn't been making upgrades and doing enrichment as previously possible with the same authorization level. So, will this change people's behavior???

biblios.net

Cataloging productivity suite:

* Web-based cataloging client
* Supports copy & original cataloging
* Search millions of freely licensed records
* Share your records with other libraries

Resource Description and Access (RDA) Webcasts

"In a series of webcasts, Dr. Barbara Tillett, Chief, Policy and Standards Division of the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate, presents information about Resource Description and Access (RDA), the next generation cataloging code. Presentations currently available include one providing background and an overview of RDA, and one on the cataloging principles of RDA. Future presentations will focus on Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records (FRBR), Functional Requirements of Authority Data (FRAD), and the content and structure of RDA. "

Cataloging and Acquisitions (Library of Congress)

Home page of LC's Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate

Expert Community Experiment [OCLC - Quality control]

"In response to requests from the cataloging community, OCLC is introducing the Expert Community Experiment which enables cataloging members to make more changes to WorldCat records. During the Experiment, members with full level cataloging authorizations have the ability to improve and upgrade WorldCat master records. The Experiment begins in February 2009, and lasts six months."

Converting the Historic GPO Shelflist

Cooperative Cataloging for Pre-1976 U.S. Government Publications

Dated June 2006

ALA/GODORT Cataloging Committee Toolbox for Processing and Cataloging Federal Government Documents

GODORT's Toolbox for Processing and Cataloging Federal Government Documents

GovDoc [OCLC - Cataloging and Metadata]

The OCLC GovDoc service, available to regional and selective depository libraries, provides up-to-date, MARC-format cataloging records for U.S. government documents. As a GovDoc subscriber, your library regularly receives bibliographic records for only the government documents it holds. GovDoc is available to all federal depository libraries-institutional OCLC membership is not required to use the service.

Stealing Your Library: The OCLC Powergrab (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

Drawing a line in the sand, Part 1: The importance of open library metadata B+ Everybody's Libraries

A 3-part blog on the OCLC record-use policy and what steps we could take

Bibliography on the History of Cataloging

Notes on OCLC's Updated Record Use Policy - Metalogue

KAren Calhoun's blog on the new OCLC policy

Maelstrom Over Metadata :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs

More on the new OCLC policy restricting reuse of records.

RDA Full draft

The full draft of RDA is now available for comment.

RDA presentation

Heidi Hoerman's presentation on RDA from the 2008 OLAC/MOUG/NOTSL Conference. She reviews RDA and predicts:

"RDA will die a quiet death.

AACR2r2010 will be published.

RDA's aims will be realized in due time."

Worth viewing the slides--wish I could have heard the presentation!

ALCTS newsletter online [electronic resource].

. ALCTS newsletter online [electronic resource]. 1523-018X series Chicago, IL : Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, American Library Association, c1998-
Call#: GETTY INTERNET ACCESS EJOURNAL

Utility, Library Priorities, and Cataloging Policies

This paper seeks to provide a philosophical framework for choices made about library priorities and cataloging policy, the contexts in which they are made, and the consequences they have for users. The authors invoke the notion of utility as a philosophical backdrop for dealing with competing library choices and the fallout from those prioritizations. They then look at how general utilitarian principles can contextualize the layers of wants, needs, and resource allocations in the research library environment. Finally, they examine issues and recent developments at the Cornell University Library as a case study with which to illustrate some of these principles.

RDA: a cataloguing code for the 21st century

Utility, Library Priorities, and Cataloging Policies

"This paper seeks to provide a philosophical framework for choices made about library priorities and cataloging policy, the contexts in which they are made, and the consequences they have for users. The authors invoke the notion of utility as a philosophical backdrop for dealing with competing library choices and the fallout from those prioritizations. They then look at how general utilitarian principles can contextualize the layers of wants, needs, and resource allocations in the research library environment. Finally, they examine issues and recent developments at the Cornell University Library as a case study with which to illustrate some of these principles."

Network Controlled Vocabularies Program [OCLC - Renovating Descriptive

Problem statement: Cultural heritage, bibliographic and archival communities use different controlled vocabularies for the resources that they manage. These controlled vocabularies may not be recognized by very diverse user communities, and ignored by large commercial information hubs and Internet search engines. Metadata needs to flow among diverse environments and reach users wherever they are. The semantic, hierarchical, and granular relationships in controlled vocabularies are often lost when retrieved outside the environment in which they were created.

Make Metadata Creation Processes More Effective Program [OCLC - Renovating Descriptive

Problem statement: Creating metadata that suits local needs, readily aggregates across communities, and is easily exposed to Internet search engines remains a costly enterprise. Metadata created by libraries, archives and museums is generally not available to the user communities that look first to Internet search engines. Although mapping data structures has become a commonplace solution to integrate descriptions, real interoperability across the libraries, archives and museums communities cannot be achieved without addressing differences of description at the data-content level.

Renovating Descriptive and Organizing Practices

Objective: Engage the RLG partnership in adapting descriptive practice to economic realities, user expectations, and the requirements of network-level services. Set new expectations for investing in metadata creation and maintenance, model attendant workflows, and facilitate the discovery of research institutions' resources by users wherever they are.

Cataloger's Learning Workshop

"Cataloger's Learning Workshop is a clearinghouse portal for cataloging and metadata training resources for information workers. The scope of Cataloger's Learning Workshop includes bibliographic information training in the context of formal library and information science degree programs, as well as continuing education for library practitioners. Cataloger's Learning Workshop is a cooperative project of the Library of Congress, the Program for Cooperative Cataloging, and the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, a division of the American Library Association.
"

Training PDF avail. for Free Download

The Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress, has posted to its web site an announcement that the training materials posted to the Cataloger*s Learning Workshop will be available for downloading at no cost on or about 1 October 2008.

DO YOU HAVE A RESTLESS URGE TO CATALOG

Famous Catalogers’ Course

Fraktur Chart

Handy chart for interpreting German Fraktur

Next Generation Cataloging [OCLC - Publishers and material vendors]

"OCLC has launched a pilot project to explore upstream metadata capture and enhancement using publisher and vendor ONIX metadata. Pilot partners from the publishing, vendor and library communities are assisting us in this effort. We hope the pilotwill result in ongoing processes for the early addition of new title metadata to WorldCat and enhanced quality and consistency in upstream title metadata used by multiple channels."

RDA FAQ

Response to On The Record

Deanna Marcum's response to the "On The Record" report of the LC working group (June 1, 2008)

Draft Report of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (Library of Congress)

Syllabus for Serials Cataloging Teaching and Training (ALCTS CRS)

Goals of this unit

1. To acquaint and/or refresh those who need to become familiar with current aspects of descriptive cataloging specific to serials
2. To acquaint those who need to become familiar with historical trends in serials cataloging

Pertpetual Beta: Thoughts on the Future of Cataloging

WorldCat Cataloging Partners [OCLC - Cataloging and Metadata]

Formerly Promptcat

The Future of Cataloging: A PALINET Symposium

The Future of Cataloging: A PALINET Symposium (Thursday, May 29, 2008, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

Keynote Address:Karen Calhoun, Vice President, OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services, will present an overview of the current state of cataloging and the future direction of bibliographic control.

Now updated with audio recordings and slides (from most of the presenters)!

Perpetual Beta :Thoughts on the Future of Cataloging

My slides from the The Future of Cataloging: A PALINET Symposium (5/29/08). I was part of a panel responding to Karen Calhoun's keynote address: Traveling Through Transitions in Technical Services: From Surviving to Thriving

Views of possible future architectures of cataloging

John Mark Ockerbloom's review of the Palinet Symposium on the future of cataloging

CHART OF PCC BIBCO CORE RECORD STANDARDS

BIBCO's core record standards combined in chart form

Statement of International Cataloguing Principles

This is a revision of the 1961 "Paris Principles"

Comments due by June 30, 2008, to Barbara Tillett, Chair, IFLA's IME ICC Planning Committee at btil@loc.gov or fax to +1 (202) 707-6629.

See form at: http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/icc/IME-ICC_final_vote_form_200804.doc

Planet Cataloging

"Planet Cataloging is an automatically-generated aggregation of blogs related to cataloging and metadata"

Cataloging Compared to Descriptive Bibliography, Abstracting and Indexing Services and Metadata

From Cataloging Futures:

"Martha Yee has a new article available at the UC eScholarship repository, Cataloging, Compared to Descriptive Bibliography, Abstracting and Indexing Services and Metadata."

YorkSpace: Item 10315/1250

Denton, William. "FRBR and the History of Cataloging."

Chapter 4 in Understanding FRBR: What It Is and How It Will Affect Our Retrieval, edited by Taylor, Arlene G.

An explanation of where FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) comes from, given by a look at the work of librarians such as Panizzi, Cutter, Ranganathan, and Lubzetsky, and an examination of four themes in the history of library cataloging: the use of axioms to explain the purpose of catalogs, the importance of user needs, the idea of the "work," and standardization and internationalization.

OLAC/MOUG Conference 2008

OLAC / MOUG Conference
September 26 - September 28, 2008
Renaissance Cleveland Hotel

Announcing the 13th bienniel Online Audiovisual Catalogers (OLAC) Conference. In 2008, the conference is being held jointly with the Music OCLC Users Group (MOUG). This year's conference is in Cleveland, Ohio and includes: Preconference: a one-day Map Cataloging Workshop on Thursday, September 25

Cataloging Distribution Service (CDS) - Library of Congress

Virtual Museum of Cataloging and Acquisitions Artifacts

A blast from the past (including good old electric erasers ;)

Now updated to include preservation and circulation artifacts, and other misc. library 'technology'

Toward a Code of Ethics for Cataloging

Toward a Code of Ethics for Cataloging
Sheila Bair - Technical Services Quarterly, 2005

Cataloging is the foundation of librarianship, and catalogers are professionals with special skills that set them apart from the profession in general and give them unique ethical responsibilities.

"Steroid" Scandal Rocks Major League Libraries

"Steroid" Scandal Rocks Major League Libraries, a satirical response to erosion of support for cataloging at the Library of Congress, by Daniel Cohen (December 14, 2007).

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)

From Catalogablog:

"The full text of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) incorporating the amended definition of the expression entity as well as the errata identified to date has been made available on IFLANET in both PDF and HTML formats.

For the first time, the HTML versions of both the current text and the original 1998 text include the tables, rather than just references to the PDF version."

Cataloging of Nonroman Script Materials at the Library of Congress in a Post-RLIN World

"This deals with with Library of Congress procedures and workflows now that the Library has moved its processing of non-roman materials to its Voyager database.

PCC members will find the information in questions 3--6 relevant to matters of languages, dual fields, bi-directionality, spacing, and the eventual use of non-roman data in authority records."

Staffweb

Contract Cataloging Registry

Registry of individuals (and a few companies) who do contract cataloging

Authority Tools for Audiovisual and Music Catalogers: An Annotated List of Useful Resources

In Search of a New Model - 1/15/2008 - netConnect

"Columbia University Libraries' Robert Wolven reflects on what's next for cooperative cataloging"

RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee Comments on Report on the Future of Bibliographic Control

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)response to the LC Working Group

Library of Congress Report Urges Libraries to Update Cataloging Strategies - Chronicle.com

The Chronicle covers the LC Working Group report!

Discussion Paper on PCC Series Policies and Practices

"The PCC Ad Hoc Series Review Task Force seeks your comments on its "Discussion Paper on PCC Series Policies and Practices"

The paper is intended to generate comments useful in making
recommendations for the future direction of PCC series practices and policies. Any individuals or organizations interested in series control policies, practices, and services are welcome to comment.

The task force membership and charges are available
from: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/archive/SeriesReviewTF.html

Martha M. Yee's cataloging rules

"The cataloging rules hotlinked below represent an attempt to realize and/or demonstrate what I thought I heard being described at the International Conference on the Principles & Future Development of AACR in Toronto in October, 1997, the meeting that launched the effort to design a replacement for AACR2. Perhaps those of us at the meeting were each feeling a different part of the elephant, as RDA does not resemble these cataloging rules in the least!"

Penn History--Card Catalog, Sample Cards

Images of hand-written cards from the Penn card catalog

Cataloging Futures: Essential listening: The genius of cataloging

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
-from Oxford Reference Online

Oxford Reference Online

Oxford Reference Online
-from Oxford Reference Online
Full text of the well-known dictionaries published by Oxford University Press in a variety of subjects. Title list is available.

Concise Medical Dictionary

Concise Medical Dictionary
-from Oxford Reference Online

OLAC CAPC Video Language Coding Best Practices Task Force

Draft Recommendations (October 2007)

The task force was charged with creating a set of best practices for coding MARC 008/lang and 041 language information for videos, especially DVDs, and with using that exercise to examine whether any changes could be made to the MARC format (coding or directions) that would improve access to the multiple types of language information found on videos.

Differences between changes within

"We are pleased to announce publication of Differences Between, Changes Within: Guidelines on When to Create a New Record (revised edition, 2007). This revised edition is now available as a free, 38-page download (.pdf) and is no longer available as a print publication.

Originally intended to be an appendix to the 2002 AACR2 rule revisions, Differences Between, Changes Within evolved into a stand-alone document that supplements current descriptive cataloging rules by providing information about creating new records or updating existing records.

The document helps guide the cataloger in determining whether the item in hand can be cataloged with existing copy or requires a new bibliographic record. General guidelines are followed by specific guidelines for manifestation-level records for single-part monographs, multipart monographs, integrating resources, and serials. The text describes what constitutes a major difference between manifestations, requiring the creation of an original record, as well as detailing major changes within a serial manifestation that would lead to the creation of a new record. In addition, guidance is also provided to identify minor changes that would not require a new bibliographic record, but might necessitate updating an existing record.

The new edition of Differences Between, Changes Within reflects changes through the final set of amendments to AACR2, which were issued in 2005. Some guidelines have been changed and some removed. All rule references have been verified and updated wherever necessary."

The Serials Cataloger

This blog has "News, research, and other information of interest to serials catalogers."

OCLC Cataloging Authorization Levels

"A reference card (4 pp.) listing (1) cataloging activities authorized for each OCLC authorization level, including Search, Limited, Full, and higher, and (2) types of master record updates authorized for Full and higher authorizations. Covers both the Connexion browser and client."

Especially note the last page which notes types of record updates possible (Minimal level upgrade, database enrichment, and enhance)

LC Implementation Plans for Access Level MARC/AACR Records

"This group recommended a new level of cataloging, emphasizing data elements that allow catalog users to search for and find records, while de-emphasizing data elements that have traditionally been used in full level records to describe and identify the resource but are not as relevant to remote access electronic resources, or do not support resource discovery."

Site includes links to the report, Mandatory Data Elements, Draft Cataloging Guidelines and several PP presentations about the project

Typo of the day for librarians

Another way to clean-up your metadata

Value of Cataloging Librarians

"Cataloging librarians comprise a small but valuable subset of the library profession that provides critical but sometimes hidden services to their libraries.

With this document, the [CCS Executive Committee] hopes to provide catalogers and cataloging managers a tool for describing the critical importance of cataloging librarians.

Cataloging librarianship is, at its heart, about service. Cataloging librarians provide customer service, through their work, to thousands of users who use library catalogs and databases on a daily basis, as well as supporting future library users. They create coherent catalogs, which enable a reliable search experience for users, many of whom use the catalog remotely without access to a librarian who can interpret results or respond to questions."

Dated 6/2006; posted on ALCTS web 2007

Collections Define Cataloging's Future

Collections Define Cataloging's Future
B Simpson - The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2007 - Elsevier

Mostly a review of the literature, but also a call to change the focus of catalogers to work on special collections.

Hidden Collections

Project pulls together articles, etc. on the topic of Hidden Collections. These are uncataloged, unprocessed and/or unconverted collections, often rare or special, which are hidden from library users because they are not available in the catalog.

Creating Access to Invisible Special Collections: Using Participatory Management to Reduce a Backlog

Creating Access to Invisible Special Collections: Using Participatory Management to Reduce a Backlog
MW Lundy, DR Hollis - The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2004 - Elsevier

Special collections cataloging at a crossroads: a survey of ARL libraries

Special Collections Cataloging at a Crossroads: A Survey of ARL Libraries
BM Russell - The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2004 - Elsevier

The "Next Report" ALCTS and the Future of Bibliographic Control

ALCTS Forum: Basic Values and the Future of Cataloging

Basic Values and the Future of Cataloging
presentations from an ALCTS/CCS Forum, Jan. 21, 2007 from 8 to 10 am at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington

Quotations about Libraries and Librarians (IFLA)

OLAC Conferences

Save the date!  The 2008 joint conference of OLAC (Online Audiovisual
Catalogers) and MOUG (Music OCLC Users Group) will take place in
Cleveland, Ohio, from Friday, September 26 - Sunday, September 28, 2008.
Preconference will occur Thursday, Sept. 25th.

RDA Prototype

A prototype of how RDA might work as an online tool

6/13/07 The co-publishers of RDA have created a short survey on user preferences for a print version of RDA.

Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (Library of Congress)

Home page for the working group.

Have You Searched Google Yet?

tagging vs. cataloging: what it's all about

Brief blog entry comparing tagging and controlled vocab.

"tagging has brought metadata to the masses"

Two meanings of 'Identifier'

Two meanings of identifier = Two Functions of ‘Identifiers' => Fulfilled with only one mechanism in traditional anglo-american cataloging.

And the harm this causes.

Trouble in Online Paradise: An Analysis of MARC 856 Usage at One Institution

Roy Tennant sampled 856 fields in MARC records to see whether there is a reliable method of determining the availability of the full text access based on the coding the the 856. His results show wide variablity in the coding, and he argues for one consistant method to code for full text.

Cataloging Futures

A new blog on the future of cataloging.

"The focus of this blog is the future of cataloging and metadata in libraries. The preparation of the new cataloging code, RDA: Resource Description and Access, is a significant issue. The future of the MARC 21 format will also be explored. ILS/OPAC's future will be touch on also, but will not be the central focus. Also, I hope to use this blog to collocate some of the important papers, articles, websites, etc. that deal with the future of cataloging and metadata.
"

My Mini Metadata Manifesto

Reflections on metadata, cataloging and digitial libraries

Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC)

"The Program for Cooperative Cataloging is an international cooperative effort aimed at expanding access to library collections by providing useful, timely, and cost-effective cataloging that meets mutually-accepted standards of libraries around the world."

Will RDA Be DOA?

Roy Tennant rehashes the Coyle and Hillmann article from D-Lib

Cataloging and Acquisitions (Library of Congress)

New (1/07) website at LC

Archives of AUTOCAT

The new home of the archives of the Autocat discussion list

Catalog Card Generator

Create image of an old catalog card, including hand-written annotations

Growing Our Own

Growing Our Own: Mentoring the Next Generation of Catalog Librarians

Cataloging & classification quarterly [0163-9374] 43.2 (2006). 19-

Cataloging Contacts at the Library of Congress

Useful list of who to contact about different cataloging-related topics at LC

Subject Headings or Keywords? Google, Microsoft Join LC Working Group on Bibliographic Control - December 7, 2006 - Library Journal

Library Journal's take on the LC working group on Future of Bibliographic Control.

Interesting that the represented group include Google and Microsoft, in addition to the regular library reps.

Group Established To Discuss Bibliographic Control Future - The Library Today (Library of Congress)

The Library of Congress announced a Working Group to discuss the future of Bibliographic Control.

They will sponser several regional forums to gather info. and release a draft report for comments by Sept 2007,

with a final report by Nov. 2007

I believe that this is the follow-up promised following the announcement of the changes in series access

announced earlier in 2006.

JSC : Working Documents - Internationalization

Several working documents discussing how to make RDA less English-centric.

List of Specialist Cataloguing Manuals for RDA

This PDF doc has a useful list of specialized cataloging tools, mostly format or language focused tools.

Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR: Outcomes of the October 2006 JSC Meeting

Revised development schedule:
* March-June 2007: Review of revised chapter 3
* July-September 2007: Review of revised chapters 6-7
* December 2007-March 2008: Review of part B
* July-September 2008: Review of complete draft of RDA

RDA is scheduled for release in early 2009.

Cataloging | The SL Library 2.0 Worksite

The virtual reality site Second Life has several virtual libraries and is now looking for catalogers to help with
creating a virtual catalog for their virtual resources [yes, this is for real - or is it???]

Enhance Evaluation Procedure [OCLC]

Enhance requirements and application instructions [OCLC]

Enhance Training outline [OCLC]

Backstage Library Works. Scanning, Digitization, Cataloging, Reclassification, Retrospective Conversion.

MARCIVE, Inc.

Library of Congress - For Librarians and Archivists

Helpful resources from Library of Congress, e.g. LC classification outline, cataloging-in-publication, MARC 21 standards, digital refernce, etc.

Library Juice - Interview with Barbara Tillett

An interesting interview with Barbara Tillett describes the process by which LSCH is changed, and responds to some of Sanford Berman's criticisms of LCSH.

Amazon to MARC convertor

Simple tool will create a MARC record based on the Amazon metadata. Just insert the ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number = ISBN or other standard number). Subjects and name headings are a bit suspect, but the descriptive looks OK. I didn't try the download feature, so I'm not sure if the records are true MARC (to move to another system).

SACO presentation

Informal presentation by Mary Charles Lasater (Vanderbilt) on making SACO proposals based on MESH terms and other thesauri. Since LCSH terms are generally based on literary warrant from print monographs, often new terminology will appear in journal articles first (particularly in the sciences). Using these other sources increases interoperability between LCSH and other thesauri.

MARC Content Designation Utilization B; MCDU Home

Empirical evidence regarding the utilization of MARC content designation in our current library information retrieval systems can contribute to discussions regarding the future of MARC and its place in the rapidly evolving networked information environment The absence of any solid empirical analysis in the past 30 years, beyond that of frequency of MARC tag use, is a major motivation for this study.

Provides information on how to do this same analysis on our own collection. Do we want to do this?

OLAC

OLAC: Online Audiovisual Catalogers

Inside Higher Ed :: Calling Melvil Dewey

Believe it or not--Inside Higher Ed reports on a cataloging topic! The article is a basic summary of the LC series decision with references to the Karen Calhoun report and Thomas Mann's rebutal.

RDA Part A chapters 6-7 draft

The draft of part A, chapters 6-7 of RDA (formerly known as RDA part II) is available for comment until Sept 1 2006

RDA (Resource Description and Access)

The main RDA page on the JSC website. Includes background and FAQ and drafts for review.

Series at the Library of Congress: June 1, 2006

The final version of LC's series policy as implemented

LC series FAQ (pdf)

LC issued this FAQ 5/31/06 in preparation for their implementation of the new series policy

LC Professional Guild, AFSCME 2910 resolution on LC's Series Decision

PDF file: LC Professional Guild, AFSCME 2910 resolution on LC's Series Decision

Future of Cataloging

by Deanna Marcum, Library of Congress

LC Series Treatment Decision

Implementation delay until June 1 2006

Training Catalogers: a Checklist for Managers and Trainers

Created by the ALCTS CCS Committee on Education, Training and Recruitment for Cataloging (CETRC), this outline and bibliography is a useful tool for training catalogers. (PDF)

LC Series Treatment Decision

Prevent the Library of Congress From Abandoning the Creation of Series Authority Records Petition

Library of Congress Report Assesses Future of Library Catalogs

LC's Press release on Karen Calhoun's report "The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools"

PDF report at: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/calhoun-report-final.pdf

Future of Cataloguing

Links to several essays on the future of cataloging, including a recent (April 2006) addition by Thomas Mann which is a review of Karen Calhoun's report on the topic.

Future of Catalogs

Blog report of conference presentation by Roy Tennant, California Digital Library and Andrew Pace, North carolina State University (NCSU). Nice summary of issues

A White Paper on the Future of Cataloging at Indiana University

URL for Word doc. is: http://www.iub.edu/~libtserv/pub/Future_of_Cataloging_White_Paper.doc

Rethinking How We Provide Bibliographic Services for the Univ. of Calif.

URL for white paper is: http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/sopag/BSTF/Final.pdf

lib.rario.us

Another "catalog your own collection" site, but with a multimedia approach.

Metadata Tools for Geospatial Data

This page leads to summaries of most of the known metadata tools used for documenting geospatial data and serving geospatial metadata. It includes tools for entering and editing metadata and utilities for preprocessing, extracting, postprocessing, validating, and viewing metadata. Most of these tools were designed to help complete Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM) metadata, but several have been tuned to produce specific local metadata profiles.

PASDA - Metadata Resources

lib.rario.us

Another "catalog your own collection" site, but with a multimedia approach.

FGDC to USMARC

The following crosswalk was done by Elizabeth Mangan, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.

Classification Web Main Menu

MeSH Browser

VTLS Inc. | Corporate Information | Events

Library Journal - What Is FRBR?

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

MARC and FRBR

What is FRBR

The FRBR Blog

FRBR [OCLC - Projects]

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records - Final Report

Social Terminology Enhancement through Vernacular Engagement: Exploring Collaborative Annotation to Encourage Interaction with Museum Collections

article on museums' use of tagging to help users access images (community cataloging, they say)