Transcript Library of Congress Report to Committee on Technical Processing CEAL Young Ki Lee Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division Library of Congress.

Library of Congress
Report
to
Committee on Technical
Processing
CEAL
Young Ki Lee
Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division
Library of Congress
Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division
2006 Statistical Highlights
• Received : 55,146 items
– increased 8%
• Completed : 55,859 items
– increased 6%
• Copy cataloging : 15,936 items
– increased 62%
• Minimum level cataloging : 2,973 items
– increased 31%
• Collection level cataloging : 623 items
– increased 106%
Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division
2006 Statistical Highlights, continued
 New Name Authorities: 12,258
– increased 3%
 New Series Authorities: 1,278
– decreased 29%
 Modified Authorities: 5,962
– decreased 4%
 Production of regular work : 0.46 t/h
– increased 31%
 Staff : 75
– decreased 11%
Cataloging Policy and Support Office
2006 Highlights
 Newly re-designed Web site for ABA was
launched on Jan. 4, 2007 (includes CPSO)
: www.loc.gov/aba/
Cataloging Policy and Support Office
2006 Highlights, continued
 Non-roman data in Authority records
 Discussing with NACO nodes
 Targeting Jan. 2008 to begin
Example of Non-roman data
Here
Cataloging Policy and Support Office
2006 Highlights, continued
 Project to add Chinese characters
 to class BQ
 to the names of individual authors listed in
PL2661-2979
Example here
Cataloging Policy and Support Office
2006 Highlights, continued
 Additional history period subdivisions will be
proposed for
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Burma
Cambodia
Indonesia
Laos
Thailand
Cataloging Policy and Support Office
2006 Highlights, continued
 New 2007 Printed Edition of Class H
(Social Sciences) published by CDS
 New automated system for submitting
classification proposals and producing the
LC Classification Weekly Lists
 implemented on Nov. 13, 2006
Cataloging Policy and Support Office
2006 Highlights, continued
 Database Improvement Unit
– 875,000 records updated
– 1,000 NARs added death date of individual
The Spacing in CJK Script Fields
(with attention to Korean)
• OCLC’s No Spacing Policy for all CJK
records
• RLG’s Announcement to strip out the spaces
between CJK characters, beginning in
March 2007
– LC has been studying the implications of the plan
– LC tested 3 types of searches: Keyword, left-anchored,
and heading
– LC believes the impact for Chinese and Japanese is
minimal, but removal of spaces has significant
implications for searching Korean
The Spacing in CJK Script Fields
(with attention to Korean)
• The National Library of Korea and others
conformed their practice to include spaces
in modern Korean words
• LC’s recommendation to continue to
provide spaces for Korean words
• OCLC’s announcement in early March to
retain the spaces for any field containing
Korean characters when they load RLIN
records
Future site of JACKPHY Cataloging
at LC
• Review LC’s JACKPHY cataloging
operations in light of the OCLC/RLG
merger
• Testing efforts initiated to assess the nonroman script input/update capabilities of
Voyager w/Unicode and OCLC Connexion
• Voyager and Connexion workflows and
record management to be compared and
evaluated in the next several months
Bibliographic Data from Vendors
• China National Publishing Industry
Trading Corporation (CNPITC)
– Initial Bibliographic Control (IBC) records for
some Chinese materials
Bibliographic Data from Vendors
Continued
• Kinokuniya
– complete bibliographic data and item barcode
labels for 250 Japanese material for LC’s
Review
Bibliographic Data from Vendors
Continued
• Eulyoo Publishing Company
– IBC records for all of the Korean monographs
– LC will begin receiving bibliographic data from
Eulyoo in the near future
Chinese Team
• Arrearage reduction special project
– Staff from the Cataloging and Acquisitions reduced
unprocessed Chinese materials from 26,343 titles to 8,367
• Book Sorter Program
– David Williamson developed
– Efficiently identify and process duplicates
• Used level 7 copy cataloging on older
materials
Japanese Team
• The final edition of the Descriptive
cataloging guideline for pre-Meiji Japanese
rare books was completed and made
available on the home page of the CEAL
• Isamu Tsuchitani, Manae Fujishiro, and
Hisako Rogerson made important
contributions to the compilation of the
guidelines
Korean Team
• Revision of the Korean romanization and
word division guidelines
• Processing the old Korean religious
rare materials that were published
between late 1880s and early 1900s
• LC Digital Table of Contents Project
started to include Korean materials saved
as PDF files and linked to the
Bibliographic records
Reorganization of ABA Directorate
(Plan)
Goals
The Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access
Directorate reorganization will streamline
operations and redeploy increasingly scarce
resources to improve services for connecting
library users to content through an efficient,
flexible, and innovative organization.
Reorganization of ABA Directorate
(Proposed)
African and Asian Division
(Proposed)
•Angela Kinney, Chief
•Africa Section :
Section Head
•China Section 1:
Section Head
•China Section 2:
Section Head
•Israel / Judaica Section: Section Head
•Middle East Section:
Section Head
•Northeast Asia Section: Section Head
•Southeast Asia / South Asia Section:
Section Head
Molnar, Joseph
Ohta, Beatrice
Broadbent, John
Bell, Lenore
Ozturk, Sarah
Melzer, Philip
Pritchett, Helen
Thank You