Library of Congress Update to the Authority Control Interest Group 2014 ALA Annual Conference Janis L. Young Policy and Standards Division Library of Congress.

Library of Congress Update to the Authority Control Interest Group

2014 ALA Annual Conference

Janis L. Young

Policy and Standards Division

Library of Congress

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BIBFRAME Editor Pilot

o Undertaken by the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate

o Materials in English, a Western European language, and a language in a non-roman script

o May include a non-print formato Timeline

• Planning completed in FY2014

• Pilot completed by end of FY2015

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RDA Toolkito February release

• Fast-track changes to RDA text

• 28 new, deleted, or revised LC-PCC Policy Statements

o April release• Annual update to RDA by the JSC

• Fast-track changes to RDA text

• 62 new, deleted, or revised PSs

o August release: only RDA updates for translations (no changes to the English text)

o October release: RDA and PS updates

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Summary of RDA Updates

o Table highlighting some of the April 2014 changes to RDA• Supplements the revision history

and update history information in the RDA Toolkit

• http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/pdf/ summary_rda_changes_2014.pdf

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Descriptive Cataloging Using RDA

o Nine-module curriculum• Developed by Tim Carlton (Library

of Congress) and Dr. Ingrid Hsieh-Yee (Catholic University)

• For LIS students and new catalogers

• Will be made available on the Cataloger’s Learning Workshop web page (www.loc.gov/catworkshop)

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Cabo Verde

o Cape Verde was revised to Cabo Verde• Due to December 2013 BGN decision

• Associated name headings were adjusted in May

• Forty proposals to revise subject authorities appear on July’s Tentative List

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South Australia

o Abbreviation revised to S.A. from S. Aust.• Name authorities were adjusted in

early 2014

• Sixty proposals to revise subject authorities appeared on April’s Tentative List

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Malaysia

o No longer listed as a country whose states are not qualified by country (16.2.2.9)

o Both the state and country name will appear in all geographic qualifiers • RDA 16.2.2.12 Alternative

o Projects to adjust the name authority file and LCSH are ongoing• LC is being assisted by the University of California,

San Diego

• Catalogers should continue to use the existing headings as established until they are revised

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Printed Documentation

o Sale of printed documentation to cease July 1st

• All remaining publications are half price Exception: LCSH, 35th ed. (2013)

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Free Access to Documentation

o LC Subject Headings • 36th edition (June 2014)

o LC Classification• Most current edition of each schedule

o Keeping current• New editions to be posted each January

• Earlier editions will be archived

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Free Access to Documentation

o Subject Headings Manual• Current through the June 2014 “update

package”

o Classification and Shelflisting Manual• Current edition (2013)

o Keeping current• Will begin to update instruction sheets on

an as-needed basis in July 2014

• Superseded files will be overwritten

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Fictitious Characters

o Fictitious characters appropriated or reused by another author• Assign the heading for the original

character

o Unrelated characters with the same name• Establish and assign a separate

heading

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Characters, Deities, and Animals with Proper Names

o Being established in the Name Authority file and cancelled from LCSH

o Are not covered by SHM H 1110, Names of Persons• Applicable free-floating subdivisions are

provided in H 1095

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Characters, Deities, and Animals with Proper Names

o Derivative phrase and subdivided headings are generally being cancelled

Venus (Roman deity)—Art

Venus (Roman deity) in literature

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Characters, Deities, and Animals with Proper Names

o Derivative phrase and subdivided headings are not cancelled if• Subdivision does not free-float

• Heading is needed for a BT or RT

Raphael (Archangel)—In literature

Demeter (Greek deity)—Cult

NT Thesmorphia

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Characters, Deities, and Animals with Proper Names

o All instructions in RDA 9.19 and corresponding LC-PCC PSs are applicable

150 ## $a Medea (Greek mythology)

100 0# $a Medea, $c consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character)

150 ## $a Fala (Dog)

100 1# $a Fala $c (Dog) $d 1940-1952

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American Indian Law

o KIA-KIK, Law of the Indigenous Peoples in North America• Draft schedule added to

Classification Web in June

o KF8200-8578, Indians• Expansion began in June

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American Indian Law

o Inputting revisions directly• Will not appear on a Tentative List

• PSD is not accepting proposals

o Schedules are not ready for use• For the time being, use the free PDF

of the KF schedule

o Anticipated completion: August 2014

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Juvenile Belles Lettres

Fiction and juvenile belles lettres

Juvenile belles lettres

American and English

PZ7 General juvenile belles lettres, 1870-2014

PZ7.1 General juvenile belles lettres, 2015-

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Genre/Form Projects

o LC continues to partner with several organizations to develop genre/form terms

o Ongoing projects• General terms (SAC/SGFI)

• Literature (SAC/SGFI)

• Music (MLA)

• Religion (ATLA)

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Mediums of Performance

o Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus for Music (LCMPT) was released and implemented by LC in February• MARC 21 authority records may be downloaded

from http://classificationweb.net/LCMPT/

• Records in a variety of formats may be downloaded from the LC Linked Data Service, http://id.loc.gov

o All SACO proposals must be submitted through the SACO Music Funnel

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Demographic Group Terms

o PSD is compiling LCSH classes of persons and ethnic group headings

o Next steps• Determining which terms are likely to be

needed as creator/contributor or audience characteristics

• Assigning terms to hierarchies

o On schedule for approval in late 2014 or early 2015

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Questions?