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07-03-18

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ALA REPORTS

  • Tim
    • Attended LC pre conference on proposing new classification numbers
      • Can consult with other catalogers if anyone has
    • CCDA — some discussion about future directions, considering focus on application profiles within RDA
    • RDA beta Toolkit is very very beta!
      • Should be final by end of 2018
    • It will be up to individual communities to decide when to adopt this new revision
    • DCRM policy statements will be added after final version
    • Lots more examples coming
  • Nicole
    • OLAC concerned about cost of new Toolkit
    • Bibframe
      • Focusing on core ontology, relying on communities of practice to develop additional vocabs
      • Working with vendors to think about ILS systems that can use BF data
      • Internal search of BF dataset already operational
      • Editor profiles customized by type of material
    • Potential merger of ALCTS, LITA, and LLAMA
      • Hope by MW to have draft realignment plan ready
  • Joshua
    • Session on past, present, future of non Latin script materials cataloging and encoding
      • Hope that alternate labels option which linked data environment makes possible will resolve some of the many issues here
    • Violet Fox —> creation of cataloginglab.org tool
      • Forms ppl can submit information through
      • BTAA talking about similar model
    • CCP project being renewed, some requirements changing/easing to become more informal
      • Potential for Ivy League school involvement

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  • Revising/enhancing subject access and print finding aids for collections that have to do with the Land Grant act

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06-19-18

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Agenda

  1. Qualifying personal names in NARs (Lucas)
  2. Change in series tracing policy (Autumn)
    • historical practice of tracing/tracking numbered series titles has changed
    • going forward, untraced titles in a 490 0_ are acceptable for all series, numbered or unnumbered
    • see new procedures on the Series authorities and series tracing page

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05-15-18

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Agenda

  • Backlog of 1660 ETDs completed!
    • These piled up during transition from SkyRiver to OCLC
  • More ETDs in catalog now as brief records and will require cataloging, but we're not going to do them immediately
    • Some issues need to be resolved between Graduate Office and MSU Libraries concerning third-party search parameters that authors stipulate upon submission of their dissertation
  • Report from PCC OpCO meetings
    • Working on strategic directions, membership and participation requirements, etc.
      • LC emphasized that their resources and staffing are strained
      • Thinking about ways to involve more libraries in cooperative cataloging work, lower thresholds
    • Ongoing conversations about discontinuing use of ISBD punctuation
      • Survey is out to collect input from cataloging community
    • RDA 3R project
      • RDA Steering Committee is overseeing alignment of RDA with new Library Reference Model
        • Some members of RSC adamant that RDA numbering be removed; some disruption to project expected around this issue
    • PCC and LD4P collaborating on linked data sandbox tool
      • Intended to allow other libraries to experiment with linked data production workflows
      • Will be carried out with new Mellon grant just awarded
    • OCLC
      • Looking to clean up remaining 260 fields in WorldCat records
      • Hoping to eliminate alphabetical codes for encoding levels (I, M, K, etc.) and use only MARC-defined numerical codes
    • ISNI pilot
      • Some reports from libraries that staff with no NACO training learned ISNI process and interfaces more easily than NACO-trained catalogers
    • NACO
      • Increasing awareness that NACO or some alternative needs a lower threshold for participation
      • Also increased consideration of protecting privacy of people described in NACO records
      • Unverified call numbers for literary authors can now be added to 053 with local MARC code (MiEM)
    • SACO
      • Rundown of proposal review process, emphasizing lack of staff and volume of work
      • Joshua believes from this that PCC participant libraries should reimagine current process and contribute suggestions for change
    • BIBFRAME
      • Carla Hayden receiving quarterly updates from BIBFRAME project
      • Non-Latin characters in BIBFRAME cataloging will necessitate changes existing policies and systems concerning character rendering
      • Editor with profiles and converted LC dataset to be released at Annual
      • Definitive declaration of BIBFRAME as MARC successor planned at ALA Annual
        • LC will ask for funding to support BIBFRAME going forward

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