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.
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…
Introduction
There has been a lot of talk recently regarding what options are available to our clients when it concerns their RDA bibliographic records. We realized this was a great opportunity to discuss with you our tentative plans during this testing phase. Our company has always been interested in providing our customers with different processing options, and with RDA there is no better time than to address this. 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…
