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Notice of CatSIG AGM
by Sarah Allnutt 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

The CatSIG AGM will be held at the LIANZA conference on Tuesday 4 November, 12.30-1.30 in the Marlborough 3 Room. Our guest speaker will be Chris Todd from the National Library. Chris will talk about RDA, the new cataloguing rules due for release in 2009, and issues surrounding its implementation in NZ libraries. She will also report from her trip to Australia on ACOC activities on RDA implementation in Australia. The AGM will follow Chris' talk. The agenda will be distributed to all CatSIG members closer to the time. As at previous conferences the CatSIG AGM is a chance to socialise over lunch with fellow cataloguers and meet the committee. Everyone is welcome. CatSIG membership is not necessary; and you do not need to be registered for the conference (however, if not registered, you may not attend other conference sessions, social events or the exhibition area). Sarah Allnutt CatSIG Secretary catsigcommittee(a)gmail.com

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FW: [aliaCATLIBS] RDA Full Draft Update
by Ksenija Obradovic 23 Oct '08

23 Oct '08

FYI ~~~ Ksenija Obradovic Cataloguing Manager Te Tumu Herenga The University of Auckland Library Private Bag 92019 Auckland Mail Centre Auckland 1142 New Zealand Telephone (649) 373-7599 ext 85797 Fax (649) 373-7401 http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz 1883-2008: Celebrating 125 Years -----Original Message----- From: aliacatlibs-bounces(a)lists.alia.org.au [mailto:aliacatlibs-bounces@lists.alia.org.au] On Behalf Of Deirdre Kiorgaard Sent: Friday, 24 October 2008 9:00 a.m. To: catlibs(a)qut.edu.au; aliacatlibs(a)lists.alia.org.au Subject: [aliaCATLIBS] RDA Full Draft Update Dear Colleagues, The full draft of RDA will be available for Constituency Review during the week of November 3rd. Our intent is to issue it in a preliminary version of the software with Browse and Quick Search functionality. We will provide you with the appropriate URL from which you will be able both to view and print the full draft. As a contingency, if we cannot issue the full draft with the preliminary software release during the week of November 3rd, we will release it in PDF as scheduled on the JSC Website. You will be able to download PDF versions of the chapters and appendices from the JSC Website. We will then inform you when the full draft is available in the preliminary version at a later date. More detailed information will be forthcoming in the cover letter accompanying the full draft. Deirdre Kiorgaard ACOC representative on the JSC _______________________________________________ aliaCATLIBS mailing list aliaCATLIBS(a)lists.alia.org.au http://lists.alia.org.au/mailman/listinfo/aliacatlibs

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The Marc of Quality cataloguing workshops-places still available
by Sarah Allnutt 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

CatSIG is holding another series of The MARC of Quality cataloguing workshops in October and November 2008. There are a few places still available in the Wellington and Dunedin sessions (all Auckland sessions are now full): MARC21 In Your Library An introduction to MARC21 and how it is meant to work in your library automation system (1 day). Useful for new cataloguers; also recommended for acquisitions and serials staff to broaden their understanding of how MARC21 impacts on them. Wellington 13 October 2008 Weir House conference room, Kelburn Prices: CatSIG members $200 LIANZA members $250 Other $350 Just for Copy Cats An introduction to finding cataloguing records that you can copy, explaining challenges and issues, with a brief look at essential editing (2 days). Recommended for acquisitions staff, copy cataloguers, beginning cataloguers, and experienced but untrained cataloguers. Wellington 14-15 October 2008 Weir House conference room, Kelburn Prices: CatSIG members $400 LIANZA members $500 Other $650 Book Blitz 1 A beginner's workshop on bibliographic description, providing access points, and copy cataloguing (4 days). Recommended for experienced copy cataloguers, experienced but untrained cataloguers, and new original cataloguers. Dunedin 20-23 October 2008 University of Otago (Central) Library Prices: CatSIG members $600 LIANZA members $700 Other $850 **Please note that all prices exclude GST** These are intensive courses, all designed to present the material in a manner that will make it easier for participants to learn and develop their cataloguing skills. All the workshops are held by Deborah Fritz, an international trainer with over 15 years of experience. For more information about each course see http://www.marcofquality.com/trn/trnindex.html To register please go to the LIANZA calendar http://tinyurl.com/58dyu5 or send the following information to CatSIG Committee registrations catsigcommittee(a)gmail.com **A discount of 15% is offered to any organisation sending three or more people to the workshops** *Name(s): *Organisation: *Address: *Phone: *Email: *LIANZA membership number(s) (if applicable and known): *I will be attending (please indicate workshop and location): *Special dietary requirements?

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CatSIG sponsorship opportunity-successful applicant
by Sarah Allnutt 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Last month CatSig offered to sponsor one CatSig member to attend the 2008 LIANZA Conference, Poropitia Outside the Box. The sponsorship covers the registration fee, and travel and accommodation costs. CatSig delighted to announce Karen Tobin as the recipient of this year's sponsorship. Karen is an Assistant Librarian at Central Hawke's Bay District Libraries. Congratulations Karen from the CatSig committee. Thank you to everyone who applied for this sponsorship. Sorry to those who missed out - we had a great response this year. Kind Regards Sarah Allnutt CatSig Secretary on behalf of CatSig catsigcommittee(a)gmail.com

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New Zealand dual language place names
by Judith Keats 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

[Apologies for cross posting] E nga mata waka o te motu, tena koutou katoa. We are pleased to announce that the first New Zealand dual language place names have been accepted as subject headings by the Library of Congress and are now available on the National Bibliographic Database for use in bibliographic records. These place names are mostly the result of the Crown's settlement with Kai Tahu in 2003, when 88 South Island place names were changed to dual language place names, the majority to joint English/Maori names. In April 2006, after much discussion, the Library of Congress agreed to accept the New Zealand Geographic Placenames Database on the Land Information New Zealand website as the authority for New Zealand place names. Since then, guidelines for these subject headings have been developed in consultation with the Library of Congress. The first group of dual language place names submitted are mainly changes to existing subject headings, resulting in changes to bibliographic records on the National Bibliographic Database. These are: 1. Aoraki/Mount Cook (N.Z.), formerly Cook, Mount (N.Z.) 2. Southern Alps/ Ka Tiritiri o te Moana (N.Z.), formerly Southern Alps (N.Z.) 3. Stewart Island/Rakiura (N.Z.), formerly Stewart Island (N.Z.) 4. Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park (N.Z.), formerly Mount Cook National Park (N.Z.) 5. Westland/Tai Poutini National Park (N.Z.), formerly Westland National Park (N.Z.) The only new subject heading is Ashburton River/Hakatere (N.Z.) Each of these authority records contains a 781 field which shows how these place names are used as a geographic subdivision of a topical subject heading. Please note that macrons cannot be used in this email but they are used in the authority records. Future changes and new proposals include: Franz Josef Glacier/Ka Roimata o Hine Hukatere (N.Z.) Fox Glacier/Te Moeka o Tuawe (N.Z.) Milford Sound/Piopiotahi (N.Z.) Matiu/Somes Island (N.Z.) Doubtful Sound/Patea (N.Z.) These changes and new proposals will take several months to go through the Library of Congress review process, but we will advise you when the work is completed. Noho ora ra Naku noa, na Judy Judy Keats Authority Record Co-ordinator National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa PO Box 1467 Wellington New Zealand Telephone: 04-474-3000 x 8788 E-mail: judith.keats(a)natlib.govt.nz Search Nga Upoko Tukutuku / Maori Subject Headings at: http://mshupoko.natlib.govt.nz/mshupoko/

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Vacancy - Cataloguer - Tauranga City Libraries
by Nicky Dodwell 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

Tauranga City Council Te Kaunihera o Tauranga Moana <<Picture (Metafile)>> Library Enterprise Unit Te Whare Pukapuka Cataloguer E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā maunga, e ngā wai, e ngā pātaka o ngā taonga tuku iho, tēnā koutou! Kei te wātea tētahi tūranga ki Te Whare Pukapuka o Tauranga Moana. Ko ēnei e whai ake nei ngā āhuatanga me ngā whakaritenga o tēnei tūranga. We are looking for an energetic, enthusiastic and reliable Cataloguer to join our team at Tauranga City Libraries. You will be responsible to develop and maintain an integrated bibliographic database of all resources held in the libraries together with providing advice on cataloguing and bibliographic content. The person we are seeking will have demonstrated cataloguing skills and experience including a good understanding of the information retrieval needs of customers. The position involves limited information service support and material selection. You will require a recognised library qualification and LIANZA professional registration (or eligibility for registration). Applications close at 10.00am on Wednesday 8 October 2008. All applications will be dealt with in strict confidence. For more information or to apply online visit www.tauranga.govt.nz A job description and application form are also available by phoning 577 7000 or by collection from our offices at 91 Willow Street, Tauranga. Council is a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Trust. ********************************************************************* This e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you should notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this message from your system. Making improper use of the information contained in this e-mail is prohibited and may expose you to legal challenge or penalties. Statements in this e-mail and any attachments do not necessarily reflect the views of the Tauranga City Council (TCC) The TCC takes extensive precautions with the aim of detecting and removing any virus or defects from its e-mail system but accepts no liability for loss or damage should this e-mail not be virus or defect free or should there be any errors in transmission. Please consider our environment... do you really need to print this email? **********************************************************************

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RDA Satellite Seminar August 2008
by Chris Todd 16 Sep '08

16 Sep '08

[Apologies for cross posting] The following message appeared on both the RDA and Autocat listservs in the last few days. "Dear Colleagues: The PowerPoint presentations and speaker notes from the IFLA RDA Satellite Meeting held in conjunction with the 2008 IFLA Conference are now available on the JSC website. You can find them at: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/rda.html#presentations Cordially, Marjorie Marjorie E. Bloss, RDA Project Manager 2827 West Gregory Street Chicago, Illinois 60625 USA 1-773-878-4008 1-773-519-4009 (mobile) Marjorie_Bloss(a)msn.com " I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the satellite meeting and can thoroughly recommend all the presentations. Barbara Tillett's provides an excellent background to the development of RDA and a rather lovely look at British Library catalogue book catalogue records from the perspective of FRBR. Deirdre Kiorgaard's presentation looks more closely at RDA itself, and Anders Cato provides an interesting non-Anglo perspective on RDA. Published formats and costs: A publisher's representative was also at the meeting and there were a number of questions about costs, the possibility of a print version of RDA, and the possibility of other versions for special use (e.g. map or music cataloguing). It was clear that no decisions had been made about any of the issues raised, but once there is a final version of RDA we may get more information about formats and costs. It did seem unlikely that a print version will be available as a first release of RDA. International rules? Another point that I found particularly interesting was the level of interest from the European community. Germany and Sweden seemed keen to adopt RDA as their national cataloguing code and there was also interest from Japan and other countries. RDA looks like becoming an international standard to a greater extent than AACR. MARC. There was relatively little information about MARC - although there has been a discussion paper about RDA and MARC and some decisions were announced at this year's ALA. Library systems: The reactions of system vendors to RDA were not raised at the seminar and it seems likely that the vendors are waiting for a final release of RDA (and probably the MARC changes) before working out the implications of the new rules for their systems. The timeline from the meeting was as follows: Oct. 13 2008 - - RDA Final draft online for review - (doesn't contain full range of workflow and personalisation tools that will come with the final product) Jan 19 2009 - - Review period ends early March 2009 - Final review by Joint Steering Committee 3rd quarter 2009 - RDA release early-mid 2010 -Implementation decisions from LC and other major libraries - Pam Gatenby's presentation includes more information about evaluation plans of national libraries. Chris Todd Chris (Christine) Todd Team Leader, Monos Plus Team, Content Services, National Library of New Zealand. Telephone: (04) 474 3093 Fax: (04) 474 3161 Email: chris.todd(a)natlib.govt.nz

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RDA Satellite Seminar
by Chris Todd 16 Sep '08

16 Sep '08

The following message appeared on both the RDA and Autocat listservs in the last few days. "Dear Colleagues: The PowerPoint presentations and speaker notes from the IFLA RDA Satellite Meeting held in conjunction with the 2008 IFLA Conference are now available on the JSC website. You can find them at: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/rda.html#presentations Cordially, Marjorie Marjorie E. Bloss, RDA Project Manager 2827 West Gregory Street Chicago, Illinois 60625 USA 1-773-878-4008 1-773-519-4009 (mobile) Marjorie_Bloss(a)msn.com " I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the satellite meeting and can thoroughly recommend all the presentations. Barbara Tillett's provides an excellent background to the development of RDA and a rather lovely look at British Library catalogue book catalogue records from the perspective of FRBR. Deirdre Kiorgaard's presentation looks more closely at RDA itself, and Anders Cato provides an interesting non-Anglo perspective on RDA. Published formats and costs: A publisher's representative was also at the meeting and there were a number of questions about costs, the possibility of a print version of RDA, and the possibility of other versions for special use (e.g. map or music cataloguing). It was clear that no decisions had been made about any of the issues raised, but once there is a final version of RDA we may get more information about formats and costs. It did seem unlikely that a print version will be available as a first release of RDA. International rules? Another point that I found particularly interesting was the level of interest from the European community. Germany and Sweden seemed keen to adopt RDA as their national cataloguing code and there was also interest from Japan and other countries. RDA looks like becoming an international standard to a greater extent than AACR. MARC. There was relatively little information about MARC - although there has been a discussion paper about RDA and MARC and some decisions were announced at this year's ALA. Library systems: The reactions of system vendors to RDA were not raised at the seminar and it seems likely that the vendors are waiting for a final release of RDA (and probably the MARC changes) before working out the implications of the new rules for their systems. The timeline from the meeting was as follows: Oct. 13 2008 - - RDA Final draft online for review - (doesn't contain full range of workflow and personalisation tools that will come with the final product) Jan 19 2009 - - Review period ends early March 2009 - Final review by Joint Steering Committee 3rd quarter 2009 - RDA release early-mid 2010 -Implementation decisions from LC and other major libraries - Pam Gatenby's presentation includes more information about evaluation plans of national libraries. If anyone wants to follow up with me on any of the points above please feel free to get in touch. Chris Todd Chris (Christine) Todd Team Leader, Monos Plus Team, Content Services, National Library of New Zealand.

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RDA Satellite Meeting August 2008
by Chris Todd 16 Sep '08

16 Sep '08

The following message appeared on both the RDA and Autocat listservs in the last few days. "Dear Colleagues: The PowerPoint presentations and speaker notes from the IFLA RDA Satellite Meeting held in conjunction with the 2008 IFLA Conference are now available on the JSC website. You can find them at: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/rda.html#presentations Cordially, Marjorie Marjorie E. Bloss, RDA Project Manager 2827 West Gregory Street Chicago, Illinois 60625 USA 1-773-878-4008 1-773-519-4009 (mobile) Marjorie_Bloss(a)msn.com " I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the satellite meeting and can thoroughly recommend all the presentations. Barbara Tillett's provides an excellent background to the development of RDA and a rather lovely look at British Library catalogue book catalogue records from the perspective of FRBR. Deirdre Kiorgaard's presentation looks more closely at RDA itself, and Anders Cato provides an interesting non-Anglo perspective on RDA. Published formats and costs: A publisher's representative was also at the meeting and there were a number of questions about costs, the possibility of a print version of RDA, and the possibility of other versions for special use (e.g. map or music cataloguing). It was clear that no decisions had been made about any of the issues raised, but once there is a final version of RDA we may get more information about formats and costs. It did seem unlikely that a print version will be available as a first release of RDA. International rules? Another point that I found particularly interesting was the level of interest from the European community. Germany and Sweden seemed keen to adopt RDA as their national cataloguing code and there was also interest from Japan and other countries. RDA looks like becoming an international standard to a greater extent than AACR. MARC. There was relatively little information about MARC - although there has been a discussion paper about RDA and MARC and some decisions were announced at this year's ALA. Library systems: The reactions of system vendors to RDA were not raised at the seminar and it seems likely that the vendors are waiting for a final release of RDA (and probably the MARC changes) before working out the implications of the new rules for their systems. The timeline from the meeting was as follows: Oct. 13 2008 - - RDA Final draft online for review - (doesn't contain full range of workflow and personalisation tools that will come with the final product) Jan 19 2009 - - Review period ends early March 2009 - Final review by Joint Steering Committee 3rd quarter 2009 - RDA release early-mid 2010 -Implementation decisions from LC and other major libraries - Pam Gatenby's presentation includes more information about evaluation plans of national libraries. If anyone wants to follow up with me on any of the points above please feel free to get in touch. Chris Todd Chris (Christine) Todd Team Leader, Monos Plus Team, Content Services, National Library of New Zealand. Telephone: (04) 474 3093 Fax: (04) 474 3161 Email: chris.todd(a)natlib.govt.nz

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Nga Upoko Tukutuku updated website
by Kim Gutchlag 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

[Apologies for cross posting] Nga Upoko Tukutuku / Maori Subject Headings E nga mata waka o te motu, tena koutou katoa. We are pleased to announce the arrival of an updated version of Nga Upoko Tukutuku. The principal changes are: o A clearer display, including the interfiling of words with and without macrons o Easier navigation within the list of headings o Some new scope notes and the revision of several existing ones (see below) o The addition of new terms requested by users (see below) We would also like to alert people that, owing to the software upgrade, any bookmarks to individual terms will be lost. We apologise for the inconvenience and are working with the vendors to try and prevent this happening with further upgrades.The website is still found at http://mshupoko.natlib.govt.nz/ We would like to thank people for their ongoing suggestions for new terms. We are shortly to begin assembling a team to develop the next group of headings, so please keep sending suggestions to reo(a)natlib.govt.nz. Scope notes Scope notes have been added to some terms which have the potential to be applied as either an example of the topic or about the topic. For example: Pakiwaitara. Fictional stories of Maori as opposed to historical or legendary, modern fiction. This heading can be used for examples of fiction or for works about fiction. Purakau. Traditional, historical and legendary stories of Maori. 'True' stories as opposed to fictional. Can be used for examples of traditional, historical and legendary stories, or for works about these stories. We have difficulty with macrons in email, so please excuse their absence. Noho ora ra, na matou, na Kim me te ropu o Nga Upoko Tukutuku. New terms - http://mshupoko.natlib.govt.nz/mshupoko/recent.htm Manager, Collection Description National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa Wellington, New Zealand DDI: +644 474 3085 Kim.gutchlag(a)natlib.govt.nz http://www.natlib.govt.nz

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