Library of Congress Update Authority Control Interest Group American Library Association Conference (2009 : Denver, Colorado) Janis L. Young Policy and Standards Division Library of Congress jayo@loc.gov

Name authorities 034 field (Cartographic mathematical data) in authority records Non-Latin reference project Resource Description and Access (RDA) Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)

Geographic coordinates for name authorities Field 034 coming to name authorities in 2009 Guidelines currently being developed for field use by NACO members Policies will be documented in the Blue and Yellow pages Investigating the possibility of pre-populating records with data from trusted partners Watch for future announcements

Non-Latin reference project OCLC has completed the pre-population of the LC/NACO authority file from bibliographic headings Catalogers may input non-Latin script references for new and existing name authority records LC will announce a process by which catalogers who have been examining the references can contribute to the development of policies and practices

Non-Latin reference project White paper on Non-Latin references Frames many of the issues related to cataloger-added references, including Lack of uniformity in formulation of headings in 880 fields Whether cataloger-added additions should match those in the authorized form of heading

Non-Latin reference project White Paper available at: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/nonlatin_whitepaper.html Send comments to policy@loc.gov Website for the non-Latin project http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/nonlatingeneral.html

Resource Description and Access Specialists in the Policy and Standards Division are compiling LC’s comments on the Full Draft for Constituency Review LC, NLM, and NAL plan to test RDA before making a decision regarding implementation

Virtual International Authority File On December 11, 2008 the National Library of Sweden became the latest partner in VIAF Seven other libraries have applied join and should be added in 2009 System will be available in a beta version in 2009

Subject authorities Library of Congress Classification (LCC) Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) LCSH SKOS Library of Congress Genre/Form Headings

Updated LC class schedules BL-BQ (Religion (General). Hinduism. Judaism. Islam. Buddhism) BR-BX (Christianity. Bible) C (Auxiliary sciences of history) DS-DX (History of Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, etc.) H (Social sciences) PJ-PK (Oriental philology and literature. Indo-Iranian philology and literature) PQ (French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese literatures) R (Medicine)

Development of law schedules KBS: Canon Law of the Eastern Churches KBT: Canon Law of the Eastern Rite Churches in Communion with the Apostolic See in Rome Are in draft form and can be viewed in Classification Web, but are not approved and should not be used

Subject and classification manuals Subject Cataloging Manual: Subject Headings New edition will be published in 2009, titled Subject Headings Manual (SHM) Will consolidate previous updates

LCSH “Red Books” 31st edition available in spring, 2009 Will be current through January 23, 2009 New feature Genre/form headings available in separate section in the front of volume 1

Subject heading validation records Approximately 35,000 created Not printed in “Red Books” Are available through MARC Distribution Service and Classification Web Are maintained as headings are revised Project halted in mid-2008 due to a programming glitch; will begin again when problem is resolved

LCSH SKOS In 2008 http://lcsh.info was launched as an experimental prototype that made LCSH freely available on the Internet through SKOS format To facilitate use of LCSH for data manipulation and other applications Prototype will be replaced with an official LC site

LCSH SKOS Feedback to LC demonstrated the public’s interest in freely available records Future plans include expanding to include genre/form authority records, TGM, and MARC code lists

LCSH SKOS The Library of Congress is committed to providing LCSH freely on the Internet, with the goal of encouraging experimentation and use, reuse, and interoperability of LCSH

Genre/form headings Projects for moving images and radio programs are almost completed LC catalogers implemented headings in new cataloging as of January 1, 2009 SACO members may contribute proposals for new and revised headings beginning February 1, 2009

Genre/form headings In November LC management approved five new projects: cartography, law, literature, music, and religion Cartography project getting underway Will require revision of many topical headings for cartographic materials Sample list of headings is available on LC’s web site at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/genrecarto.html

Genre/form headings For general information about the projects: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/genreformgeneral.html FAQ Reports Timeline Announcements Requests for comment

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