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02-18-2020 (Draft)

ALA Reports

1. Tim:

   1. RDA Beta Toolkit becomes production version Dec. 2020, but countdown to deprecation doesn’t start until RDA Steering Committee says so.

   2. Structure for approving RDA revisions has changed, but is inactive given the ongoing 3R project. There is some concern about these changes re: an increased frequency required (was annually, now quarterly) and the methods of decision-making. CC:DA was ALA’s RDA voice; now that will be NARDAC, to whom CC:DA will give input.

   3. CC:DA is to persist amidst the development of CORE (prospective merger of ALCTS, LITA and LLAMA.

2. Lisa:

   1. Tulane has a LCSH terms discussion group that regularly meets. Discussing, for example, prospective alternatives to terms like ‘Miscegenation’ or the absence of ‘-Men’ as a subdivision (taken as a default).

   2. Illegal aliens LCSH term: per a survey, most libraries are adding a local term, but not replacing the existing LCSH term. SAC is not making specific recommendations to libraries for this change - many solutions can co-exist.

   3. Janice Young (LC) says libraries should make use of alternative vocabularies as they like; LC is challenged in keeping up with the number of changes being proposed (pejorative, outdated language, etc.)

3. Autumn

   1. OLAC will have a conference this year.

   2. OLAC best practices for cataloging objects have been published.

   3. LD4P’s Sinopia linked data editing tool is available for use.

   4. LC seems to think there will be a dual BIBFRAME and MARC environment for a while.

   5. Romanization: PCC Participants Meeting focused on transliteration/romanization. Takeaways: Romanization is hard and sometimes necessary. Most will feel it’s reasonable to romanize author and title, but not necessarily other transcribed elements. There’s general agreement that some of LC’s romanization tables are problematic.

02-04-2020

Draft reorganization discussion

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