CMS notes 2018-2019

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12-04-18 (DRAFT)

CATALOGING SHOW & TELL / ANNOUNCEMENTS

Loretta
- working on Remote problems backlog
Tad
- Working with Andrew Lundeen to reboot the Provenance Project
- Working on an almanac owned by Ann Cackett; includes wax pages and a stylus for inscribing in them; 2 leaves with holiday dates from a separate, unknown source
Susan
- In search of pictures of retiring Chief Dunlap for a project
Kate
- UN Apartheid papers being done as monographs; there are a lot of them, and they are thin!
Emily
- Serial puzzle: was able to identify a serial from an online surrogate and discover that the piece in hand was a preview issue. A Lockwood serial Cuisine at home with annotations like, "Good recipes, but full of fat."
Lisa Robinson
- November headings processing is complete
- Heads up: LC is canceling multiples per this announcement (e.g. --Buddhism, [Christianity, etc.]); replacing with individual headings for each. Going forward, catalogers will have to check the authority file before using implicated headings. If a needed heading doesn't yet exist, it will require a SACO proposal.
Tim
- Maps Library locked cabinet sheet maps will eventually be a test case for flipping current AGS classification to LC; Tim works on these maps accordingly when other pieces aren't in queue, in an attempt to have them completed before a test occurs.
- Has encountered his first maps from the Lockwood collection
Cathy
- Working on Lockwood, Mexican and Russian books presently
- An interesting one: someone had crossed out all of the "swear words"
Janet
- Working on new Rovi DVDs and Blu-rays
- One travel series complicated by incorrect containers, labels and even disc menus 😮
Announcements:
- Moving ahead with changing 'Aliens' and 'Illegal aliens' to LC-(almost)-approved replacements; will be convening a small group to plan for these changes after the new year
- ETDs will be posted for cataloging sometime after the new year
- Autumn returning mid-December

11-06-18

WELCOMING 2 NEW COLLEAGUES

Courtney Ohenzuwa: new LAIII on Autumn's team
Zoë McLaughlin: Area Studies & Accessibility Librarian with new secondary assignment in CMS

CATALOGING SHOW & TELL / ANNOUNCEMENTS

Tim
- He and Kathleen Weessies have devised a new collection: the Place Marketing Collection, in the Map Library
- He is taking on an informal collecting role with it and focusing on cataloging that material now
Janet
- Map realia: dozens of jigsaw puzzles of maps (one example: http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b12907000~S39a)
- "Dissected US" maps: a 19th century term; maps pasted on wood & cardboard, cut up to use as teaching tools
- Containers typically include a piece count, but not other attributes like size, etc. So cataloging requires assembling the puzzles 😮
- Most puzzles are realia, but it turns out map puzzles are done on cartographic workforms
Lisa Robinson
- Lark Braten coming on as Metadata Management LAIV
Cathy & Tad
- Lockwood Romani item: The Romanichels, a lucubration / by Tringurushi Juvalomursh (record is a work in progress as of 11/8/18)
- One copy that Tad & Kate worked on bound with covers pasted with old Bible leaves; Tad was able to date leaves to 15th or 16th century
- However the piece itself was published in 1909, distributed by Gypsy Lore Society
- Later found a second copy, with inscription "the last book my mother read before she died" 😮
- Yet another copy with what appears to be a transcribed letter from the author with an explanation of author's pen name
- Tad: will involve some creative use of headings for binding, annotation, etc.
- Bible leaves on the first copy apparently from a Liverpool bindery that bound the piece; like they just had old Bible's laying around to use as scrap?
Joshua
- A DOAJ journal published by Fundación MenteClara and a NAR for that body: dedicated to the integration of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism and existential psychotherapy

NEW HEADINGS OF NOTE

Lisa Robinson reviewed new headings of interest on the latest LC monthly report
- LCSH
  - Krises
    - Changed from: Daggers, Malay
  - Villains
    - 680: "Here are entered works on characters in literature, motion pictures, etc., whose evil motives or actions form an important plot element."
    - As opposed to: Supervillains, w/ 680: "Here are entered works about fictional villains who possess abilities beyond those of normal human beings."
    - Heroes / Superheroes parallel this
  - Occupational segregation
    - "Here are entered works on concentrating particular demographic groups in certain economic sectors or occupations."
  - Emojis
  - Soju
    - A Korean liquor
  - Pierogi
    - No longer a 450 on Piroshki, now its own heading
  - Cryptocurrency
- LCGFT
  - Exhibition posters
  - Transgender films: films about the transgender experience
  - Legal comics: comics that feature the practice of law

07-03-18

ALA REPORTS

Tim
- Can consult with other catalogers if anyone has
- Should be final by end of 2018

Attended LC pre conference on proposing new classification numbers
CCDA — some discussion about future directions, considering focus on application profiles within RDA
RDA beta Toolkit is very very beta!
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
- 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
- Hope by MW to have draft realignment plan ready

OLAC concerned about cost of new Toolkit
Bibframe
Potential merger of ALCTS, LITA, and LLAMA

Joshua
- Hope that alternate labels option which linked data environment makes possible will resolve some of the many issues here
- Forms ppl can submit information through
- BTAA talking about similar model
- Potential for Ivy League school involvement

Session on past, present, future of non Latin script materials cataloging and encoding
Violet Fox —> creation of cataloginglab.org tool
CCP project being renewed, some requirements changing/easing to become more informal

ROUND ROBIN

Joshua

Contributing to CONSER project of creating full level serial records for titles in online Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Problem example: conflicting title in issues of one work, had to do research to straighten out

Vicki

Rovi problems

Doing a lot of recataloging

Gift of film soundtracks

Mike

Made a pass through T Loc H
Gov docs going to remote storage

Nicole

Manuscript collection

Can’t catalog with piece in hand, so dealing with Issue of relying on incomplete existing descriptions

Loretta

International gov doc serials going out to Remote
Backlog of gov docs serials

Tricky issues with title changes, linking, working with Acq end of things sometimes to resolve problems

Autumn

Cataloging documentation

Kate

SPC and T Loc H materials
Bound-with problems
Differentiation of “The Romany” identity, even made NAR for a dog!

Janet

Finished almost 200 Tanzanian Swahili videos
A small pile of videos from Guinea
- How to provide subject access?

Films made everywhere
Dubbed in variety of languages with no subtitles

Rovi DVD multi disc set of operas

No packaging! Had to watch credits and such to catalog correctly

Cataloged new subscription to Live From the Met

Tim

Garden variety new map acquisitions
Coming up: Soviet military maps of Great Lakes region

Cathy

Lockwood cookbooks — different printings or different editions? Difficult determinations sometimes
Encountered an opinionated 520 summary note in a record for a Brer Rabbit work

Susan

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

Agenda

Qualifying personal names in NARs (Lucas)
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

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
- LC emphasized that their resources and staffing are strained
- Thinking about ways to involve more libraries in cooperative cataloging work, lower thresholds
- Survey is out to collect input from cataloging community
- RDA Steering Committee is overseeing alignment of RDA with new Library Reference Model
- Intended to allow other libraries to experiment with linked data production workflows
- Will be carried out with new Mellon grant just awarded
- 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
- Some reports from libraries that staff with no NACO training learned ISNI process and interfaces more easily than NACO-trained catalogers
- 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)
- 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
- 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

Working on strategic directions, membership and participation requirements, etc.
Ongoing conversations about discontinuing use of ISBD punctuation
RDA 3R project
PCC and LD4P collaborating on linked data sandbox tool
OCLC
ISNI pilot
NACO
SACO
BIBFRAME

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