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Library of Congress UpdateAuthority Control Interest Group

American Library Association Conference(2009 : Denver, Colorado)

Janis L. YoungPolicy and Standards Division

Library of [email protected]

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Name authorities

1. 034 field (Cartographic mathematical data) in authority records

2. Non-Latin reference project

3. Resource Description and Access (RDA)

4. Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)

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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

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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

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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

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Non-Latin reference project

• White Paper available at:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/nonlatin_whitepaper.html

• Send comments to [email protected]

• Website for the non-Latin projecthttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/nonlatingeneral.html

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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

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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

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Subject authorities

1. Library of Congress Classification (LCC)

2. Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)

3. LCSH SKOS

4. Library of Congress Genre/Form Headings

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Questions?