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 Division 2007 Statistics R eceived : 53,979 items C ompleted : 61,707 items C opy cataloging : 15,376 items M inimum level cataloging : 5,202 items C ollection level cataloging : 52 items

3. N ew Name Authorities: 12,061 N ew Series Authorities: 110 M odified Authorities: 4,406 N ew Subject Authorities: 466 C lass Numbers Established: 521 B ibliographic Records Changed: 7,107

4. S taff : 73 W orking Backlog: 37,132 titles P roduction of regular work : 0.58 t/h

5. Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division 2007 Highlights C ombining Cataloging and Acquisitions (Pilot Project): Effective Nov. 26, 2007, all 18 African/Asian Acquisition staff members reassigned to RCCD S RD staff reassigned to RCCD: several serials catalogers reassigned to RCCD

6. T ransition From RLIN21 to Voyager R LIN21 ceased: August 2007 V oyager (Library of Congress system) T ransliterator

12. Acquisitions 2007 Highlights A cquired 1,073,311 (including CJK) pieces : through purchase, gift, exchange, or transfer from other government agencies N ew electronic resources: included C hina Times News Database D atabase of the Chinese Government A sian Geospatial Dataset N orth Koreas Newspaper & Journals Database A n official exchange agreement: with the National Assembly Library of Korea

13. Acquisitions 2007 Highlights A cquire digital content S cience materials from Taiwan and for Macau publications

14. Digital Table of Contents 2007 Highlights T otal production: 86,000 TOCs 2 8,692 titles added in FY07, including 2,126 Chinese, Japanese and Korean PDFs 2 42 English summaries: in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean materials.

15. Bibliographic Data from Vendors Bibliographic Services Agreement J apan Publications Trading Company (JPTC): 200 monographs in the areas of humanities and social sciences K inokuniya: 70 monographs in the area of science and technology

16. Bibliographic Data from Vendors C hina National Publishing Industry Trading Corporation (CNPITC) I nitial Bibliographic Control (IBC) records for some Chinese materials

17. E ulyoo Publishing Company A cooperative agreement for bibliographic services was signed in Oct. 2006. to purchase initial bibliographic control records. D isrupted by the closure of the RLIN bibliographic utility

18. Cataloging Policy and Support Office 2007 Highlights Transition From RLIN21 to Voyager C hange in Practice for Spacing in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean F requently Asked Questions : Cataloging of Nonroman Script Materials at the Library of Congress in a Post-RLIN World

19. N on-roman data in Authority records D iscussing with NACO nodes I mplementation in April 2008, or later W hite Paper: Issues Related to Non-Latin Characters in Name Authority Records C JK script data for non-book materials, such as maps, music, posters, etc.

20. L C Classification Schedules E -F (History: America) H (Social Sciences) M (Music) N (Fine Arts) P N (Literature General) Q (Science) T (Technology) C lassification Web (the official version) is updated daily, overnight

21. K NN (Chinese law) N on-roman script (Chinese) added

22. Chinese Team 2007 Highlights R eceived: 10,716 (-21%) C ompleted: 12,369 (-3%) W ork on hand: 1,340 (-57%) M LC increased 240% to 2,213, including 1,355 microforms S outh Manchuria Railway Company Collection, Taiwan Election Collection, and the Overseas Chinese Activities Collection Subject headings and classification: handbook for Chinese catalogers

23. Japanese Team 2007 Highlights R eceived: 6,809 (+14%) C ompleted: 8,225 (+40%) W ork on hand: 1,142 C ataloged 126 Japanese rare art books selected from Pre-Meiji Works in the Library P rocessed 1,208 Japanese serial titles from South Manchurian Railroad, published 1909-1944 L C-CEAL Cataloging Internship

24. Korean/Chinese Team 2007 Highlights R eceived: 6,667 (-11%) C ompleted: 7,639 (+9%) W ork on hand: 546 1 20 titles of Rare Korean religious materials from the late 19 th century and early 20 th century R evision of the Korean romanization and word division guidelines

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

26. Thank You