LC Update to the Authority Control Interest Group Janis L. Young Policy and Standards Division Library of Congress 2011 ALA Annual Conference

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 – RDA Toolkit – (Also available through Cataloger’s Desktop subscription)

4 Bibliographic Framework Transition 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 Framework Transition 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 Framework Transition 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 Framework Transition Initiative Web site: – 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 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 has been updated – Specifies type of heading – Shows new MARC data elements defined for RDA Entire MARC record still available in the MARC display

12 Library of Congress Authorities

13 Library of Congress Authorities

14 Library of Congress Authorities

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 Classification Tentative 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

19 New Subject Proposal System

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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