A recent announcement by the Library of Congress (LC) has provided more details about its intent to steer away from MARC format and begin investigation into its replacement. MARC has been the format for bibliographic and authority record exchange for nearly 40 years. Because of that the format lacks the ability to accommodate fully the features planned for RDA.
The Working Group of the Future of Bibliographic Control wrote in their report: continue reading…
If you’re anything like me when you hear about FRBR, FRAD, and RDA you wonder who spilled their alphabet soup. But these are serious topics in the library world and we need to understand what each term means, how they relate to one another, and what we can expect to see in the future. Karen, our RDA librarian has kindly put together a basic primer for us to understand these issues.
We have received several inquiries about how we will be handling the new LC Genre/form records (lcgft) and 655 headings in bibliographic records.
Our default policy will be to follow the LC/PCC guidelines. These can be found on the LC Policy and Standards Division Genre/form web page: continue reading…
For those of you who are wondering about LC’s policies for RDA and AACR2
records now that the national test is over, LC has posted the PCC Post
RDA Test Guidelines here: continue reading…
LC has recently made changes to the way that Maps will be handled in subject headings. As such, many people wondered how we were going to handle the changes and allow you the freedom and flexibility to do whats best for you library. Our expert librarian, Karen, drew up this explanation of the changes and how we can help you:
Proposals for handling the new LC policy for map form subdivisions continue reading…
We have had a few other libraries ask about the Russian ligatures since there seems to be several inconsistencies with how these diacritics are coded in LC’s authority records. A couple of months ago, one of our programmers was looking into this issue. Here is the information that he found: continue reading…
