June 2011 - CatSIG - lists.ecs.vuw.ac.nz

Catapult no. 72
by Janess Stewart 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

Issue no. 72 of Catapult : newsletter of the LIANZA Cataloguing Special Interest Group is now available on the DescribeNZ wiki http://nznuc-cataloguing.pbworks.com/w/page/22473251/Links-and-resources Regards Janess Janess Stewart Team Leader Serials Cataloguing Team Collection Description National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa Knowledge, Information, Research and Technology Branch The Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua Direct Dial: +64 4 474 3118 Extn: 4918 Fax: +64 4 474 3161 email: janess.stewart(a)dia.govt.nz<mailto:janess.stewart@natlib.govt.nz> www.dia.govt.nz<http://www.dia.govt.nz/> ==== CAUTION: This email message and any attachments contain information that may be confidential and may be LEGALLY PRIVILEGED. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, disclosure or copying of this message or attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email message in error please notify us immediately and erase all copies of the message and attachments. Thank you. ====

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by Jessie Moir 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Changes to the use of form & genre headings at National Library Due to recent announcements from the Library of Congress Policy and Standards Division, National Library has implemented several changes to its practice for assigning form and genre headings. LC Announcement - Library of Congress to reissue genre/form authority records 1/3/11 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/gf_lccn.html For a summary of changes please refer to DescribeNZ http://nznuc-cataloguing.pbworks.com/w/page/41496312/National-Library-of-Ne… Sarah Knox, RLIANZA Senior Collection Description Librarian. National Library of New Zealand The Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua Telephone +64 4 470 4523 email: sarah.knox(a)dia.govt.nz<mailto:sarah.knox@natlib.govt.nz> ==== CAUTION: This email message and any attachments contain information that may be confidential and may be LEGALLY PRIVILEGED. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, disclosure or copying of this message or attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email message in error please notify us immediately and erase all copies of the message and attachments. Thank you. ==== ##################################################################################### Attention: The information contained in this message and or attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any system and destroy any copies. ##################################################################################### Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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MSH/Nga Upoko Tukutuku update June 2011
by Jessie Moir 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

[Apologies for cross-posting and missing macrons] Tena koutou, This is an update about the development work of Nga Upoko Tukutuku, from the work done at the May meeting. We have created 33 new headings and made changes to 14 existing terms http://mshupoko.natlib.govt.nz/mshupoko/recent.htm. The Project Team would like to acknowledge Robyn East, from Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa National Library of New Zealand who has stepped down as a Project Team member. We wish her well and thank her for the huge contribution she has made since the Maori Subject Headings Project first began. We would also like to welcome a new member, Catherine Amey, also of National Library of New Zealand, to the MSH Project Team. If you have any requests for new headings, please send your suggestions and supporting context to us at reo(a)dia.govt.nz<mailto:reo@dia.govt.nz>. Furthermore, if you have any queries or comments about the headings, the project, or anything else in general please do not hesitate to contact us. Ma te kimi ka kite, ma te kite ka mohio, ma te mohio ka marama, no reira e nga e nga hau e wha, tena koutou katoa. Na matou o Nga Upoko Tukutuku, Kim, Charlotte, Jacinta and the MSH Project Team. Catherine Amey Collection Description Librarian National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa The Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua Direct Dial: +64 4 474 4485 Extn: 3485 www.dia.govt.nz<http://www.dia.govt.nz/> ==== CAUTION: This email message and any attachments contain information that may be confidential and may be LEGALLY PRIVILEGED. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, disclosure or copying of this message or attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email message in error please notify us immediately and erase all copies of the message and attachments. Thank you. ==== ##################################################################################### Attention: The information contained in this message and or attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any system and destroy any copies. ##################################################################################### Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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RDA Implementation Decision
by Kim Gutchlag 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

Apologies for cross-posting The CEOs of the three US national libraries, LC, NAL, and NLM, have recommended that RDA be implemented no sooner than January 2013, subject to the completion of a number of tasks. The executive summary of the report is available at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/cataloging/RDA_report_executive_summary.pdf The cover statement by the executives of LC, NAL, and NLM included is also available as a PDF file at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/cataloging/RDA_Executives_statement.pdf Essentially the work to be done would ensure that it is possible to fully realise the benefits of RDA from the time of implementation. This includes making progress towards a replacement for MARC and developing prototypes of input and discovery systems that use the RDA element set. Other tasks are set out in the executive summary linked above. Chris Todd is hoping to attend ALA (volcanic ash clouds permitting), where extensive discussion of RDA is already part of the programme. Chris will be able to update the lists on her return. Kim Gutchlag Manager, Collection Description National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa Wellington, New Zealand The Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua Direct Dial: +644 474 3085 www.dia.govt.nz<http://www.dia.govt.nz> ==== CAUTION: This email message and any attachments contain information that may be confidential and may be LEGALLY PRIVILEGED. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, disclosure or copying of this message or attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email message in error please notify us immediately and erase all copies of the message and attachments. Thank you. ====

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FW: Announcing the LC/NAL/NLM RDA Implementation decision
by Ksenija Obradovic 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Reser, Dave Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 7:23 AM To: RDA-L(a)LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: [RDA-L] Announcing the LC/NAL/NLM RDA Implementation decision (Apologies for cross posting) The Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, and the National Library of Medicine are pleased to issue a statement from the Executives of the three libraries regarding the Report and Recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee on the implementation of RDA-Resource Description & Access. This statement and the Executive Summary of the Committee's Report and Recommendations are being issued to allow interested parties sufficient time to review prior to the upcoming Annual Conference of the American Library Association in New Orleans, June 23 -28. The full Report and Recommendations will be available prior the ALA Annual Conference on the Testing Resource Description and Access Home Page: http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/ An executive summary of the report is available now at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/cataloging/RDA_report_executive_summary.pdf The cover statement by the executives of LC, NAL, and NLM included below is also available as a PDF file at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/cataloging/RDA_Executives_statement.pdf Response of the Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, and the National Library of Medicine to the RDA Test Coordinating Committee June 13, 2011 Introduction When the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control issued its report, On the Record, on January 9, 2008, it introduced the findings with these observations: The future of bibliographic control will be collaborative, decentralized, international in scope, and Web-based. Its realization will occur in cooperation with the private sector and with the active collaboration of library users. Data will be gathered from multiple sources; change will happen quickly; and bibliographic control will be dynamic, not static. The underlying technology that makes the future possible and necessary--the World Wide Web--is now almost two decades old. Libraries must continue the transition to this future without delay in order to retain their significance as information providers. Most of the recommendations in the report call for changes in the current bibliographic control system that will move libraries toward this desirable future. One recommendation--3.2.5--was notable in that it called for a suspension of work underway on RDA. The Working Group suggested that further development work on Resource Description and Access (RDA) be suspended until a business case had been articulated, benefits demonstrated, and there had been better testing of FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) as it relates to RDA. Work on RDA had been underway for several years, so a decision to suspend it could not be made lightly. In March, Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress, who had commissioned the Working Group, convened her counterparts from the National Agricultural Library and the National Library of Medicine to discuss the entire report, but specifically asked for collaboration on the response to the recommendation on RDA (3.2.5). After careful deliberation the three national library executives issued a joint statement on RDA. The three principals from the three national libraries--Deanna Marcum, Sheldon Kotzin, and Peter Young--accorded special consideration to RDA, as it was the only international standard that had been developed, and all agreed that whatever else one might think about the future of bibliographic control, it would surely be an international endeavor. They noted "RDA is an important international initiative that has been underway and is one that requires continued collaboration with our international partners who have joined with the United States in a global initiative to update bibliographic practices to make library resources more accessible and useful to users." The Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine, and the National Agricultural Library concluded that a thorough and rigorous test of RDA was needed to answer questions about whether or not it should be further developed and implemented. The three institutions pledged to design jointly the test of the tool, to involve a broad spectrum of the user community in carrying out the test, and to disseminate the results of the test widely. The test was meant to include an articulation of the business case and a cost analysis for retraining staff and re-engineering cataloging processes necessitated by a new code. They also agreed to an optimistic resolution that if there were a decision to implement RDA, implementation would not occur before the end of 2009. They did not fully appreciate how involved the development of a reliable test methodology would be, and the unavoidable delays that would occur in issuing RDA. The RDA Test The three libraries named staff to work on the test methodology, to carry out the test, and to make recommendations to the agencies' executives based on the results. Perhaps the most important decision was that the three agreed that they would make a joint decision whether or not to adopt RDA. On June 9, 2008, the members of the U. S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee met for the first time. The dedication of the members of the group cannot be adequately described (see below for " List of U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee Members"). They met regularly--sometimes weekly--to develop all of the criteria that would be used to make a final recommendation. They enlisted twenty-six partners (including the three national libraries) that represented many types and sizes of libraries as well as archives, book vendors, systems developers, library schools, and consortia. They carried out the test and analyzed the results over a period of several months. Recommendation The most challenging task was to turn the test data into a single recommendation for the three national libraries. There was no clear, easy answer. RDA presents complicated issues for all libraries. In the final analysis, the RDA Test Coordinating Committee recommended that the national libraries adopt RDA with certain conditions and that implementation will not occur before January 1, 2013. Statement from the Executives of the Three National Libraries Simon Liu (NAL), Sheldon Kotzin (NLM), and Deanna Marcum met on May 24, 2011 to review the report and to reach agreement on a response. They agreed on the great importance of the work the Coordinating Committee had accomplished, and they expressed deep appreciation for the investment each member made to the overall effort. The official statement is: "We endorse the report, with the conditions articulated by the committee. Even though there are many in the library community who would like to see a single "yes" or "no" response to the question should we implement RDA, the reality is that any standard is complicated and will take time to develop. We also recognize that the library world cannot operate in a vacuum. The entire bibliographic framework will have to change along the lines recommended in the report of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. The implementation of RDA is one important piece, but there are many others that must be dealt with simultaneously. We especially note the need to address the question of the MARC standard, suggested by many of the participants in the RDA test. As part of addressing the conditions identified, LC will have a small number of staff members who participated in the test resume applying RDA in the interim. This will allow LC to prepare for training, documentation, and other preparatory tasks related to the further development and implementation of RDA. The conditions identified by the Test Coordinating Committee must be addressed immediately, and we believe that the Committee should continue in an oversight role to ensure that the conditions are met. We have discussed the Committee's recommendations with the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. We will continue to work closely with the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control to think about the overall direction of bibliographic control and the changes that are necessary to assure that libraries are in the best position to deliver twenty-first century services to users. We believe that the long-term benefits of adopting RDA will be worth the short-term anxieties and costs. The Test Coordinating Committee quite rightly noted the economic and organizational realities that cause every librarian to ask if this is the time to make a dramatic change in cataloging. Our collective answer is that libraries must create linkages to all other information resources in this Web environment. We must begin now. Indefinite delay in implementation simply means a delay in our effective relationships with the broader information community." List of U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee Members: Committee Co-chairs: Christopher Cole, National Agricultural Library, Jennifer Marill, National Library of Medicine (January 2011--), Diane Boehr, National Library of Medicine (Acting: June 2010-December 2010), Dianne McCutcheon, National Library of Medicine (2008-May 2010), Beacher Wiggins, Library of Congress; Committee Members: Barbara Bushman, National Library of Medicine, Michael Esman, National Agricultural Library, Judith Kuhagen, Library of Congress (December 2010--), Susan R. Morris, Library of Congress, Regina Romano Reynolds, Library of Congress, Tina Shrader, National Agricultural Library, Barbara B. Tillett, Library of Congress.

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FW: Statement from the CEOs of the US national libraries on the implementation of RDA
by Ksenija Obradovic 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

From: rdaaust-request(a)nla.gov.au [mailto:rdaaust-request@nla.gov.au] On Behalf Of NLA RDA Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 10:50 AM To: rdaaust-l Subject: [rdaaust] Statement from the CEOs of the US national libraries on the implementation of RDA An executive summary of the report of the RDA testing conducted by US libraries has been made available, along with a statement from the CEOs of the three US national libraries. The full report will be released sometime in the next week. The key recommendation coming out of the testing is that RDA be adopted with certain conditions and that implementation not occur before January 2013. The conditions include: * Re-write the RDA instructions in clear, unambiguous, plain English * Improve the structure of the RDA Toolkit * Demonstrate credible progress towards a replacement for MARC * Solicit demonstrations of prototype input and discovery systems that use the RDA element set While yet another delay is frustrating, it was interesting to note the following in the CEOs statement; "We believe that the long-term benefits of adopting RDA will be worth the short-term anxieties and costs. The Test Coordinating Committee quite rightly noted the economic and organizational realities that cause every librarian to ask if this is the time to make a dramatic change in cataloging. Our collective answer is that libraries must create linkages to all other information resources in this Web environment. We must begin now. Indefinite delay in implementation simply means a delay in our effective relationships with the broader information community." The executive summary of the report is available at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/cataloging/RDA_report_executive_summary.pdf The cover statement by the executives of LC, NAL, and NLM included is also available as a PDF file at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/cataloging/RDA_Executives_statement.pdf The Australian Committee On Cataloguing (ACOC) will meet over the coming week to discuss the implications of this announcement for implementation in Australia. Catherine Argus and Jenny Stephens Jenny Stephens |RDA Implementation |National Library of Australia, CANBERRA ACT 2600 | fax: 61 2 6273 4322 | email: nlarda(a)nla.gov.au<mailto:nlarda@nla.gov.au>. Find out about RDA on the ACOC website http://www.nla.gov.au/lis/stndrds/grps/acoc/rda.html

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