Transcript Library of Congress Update Authority Control Interest Group American Library Association Conference (2009 : Denver, Colorado) Janis L.

Library of Congress Update
Authority Control Interest Group
American Library Association Conference
(2009 : Denver, Colorado)
Janis L. Young
Policy and Standards Division
Library of Congress
[email protected]
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 project
http://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?
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