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

Finally LC is reviewing the out-dated "Coookery" subject heading.  Deadline for comments is Dec. 1, 2009

Draft-PCC Guidelines for Creating Bibliographic Records in Multiple Character sets.
and
Preliminary Report: Task Force on Non-Latin Script Cataloging Documentation.

The accompanying draft guidelines are preliminary and not complete. In particular, the section for special guidelines for particular languages is not complete. Further comments are requested from PCC in order for the task group to receive input and advice for completing those sections and possibly revising the general section (see Specific comments requested below). The draft guidelines, if adopted, would establish a standard practice for PCC catalogers adding parallel non-Latin data to MARC bibliographic records. The final draft is due Dec. 2009.

The guest at this ALA Annual's Program for Cooperative Cataloging Participants' Meeting was David Lankes, professor at Syracuse University iSchool.

Abstract (from his site): "When a book becomes an ebook it looses more than simply its physical binding - it looses hard boundaries that separate the content of the book from its use. Online journals are not simply pictures of a traditional journal on a screen, but rather the foundations of intellectual communities. While today we hold on to terms such as book, journal, magazine and simply affix "e" to them, in truth, these terms of simply metaphors, an echo of an earlier analog reality. Online narratives, theses, and "how-to's" become living documents bound closer to a multitude of contexts that defy traditional notions of information organization, already strained to the breaking point of scale. What is needed is a new approach to organizing knowledge, one based on context that occurs in the space between artifacts."

 

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

"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.
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BIBCO's core record standards combined in chart form

"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

The Policy Committee of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) has endorsed the recommendations of the final reports submitted by the Access Level Record for Serials Working Group and the Working Group on Authentication Codes and Encoding Levels for Serials and Integrating Resources.

"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."

 

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.