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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

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

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
  • Some members of RSC adamant that RDA numbering be removed; some disruption to project expected around this issue
  • 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
  • LC will ask for funding to support BIBFRAME going forward
• 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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