LC Cataloging Newsline v10n08 (August 2002)
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LC CATALOGING NEWSLINE
Online Newsletter of the Cataloging Directorate
Library of Congress
Volume 10, no. 8 ISSN 1066-8829 August 2002
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CONTENTS
Hirons Receives the Margaret Mann Citation
Goldberg Receives Andrews Bibliographic Award
Basa Receives Kluge Staff Fellowship
LC Hiring Catalogers
Bibliographic Control of Web Resources Action Plan
AACR2 2002 Revision
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HIRONS RECEIVES THE MARGARET MANN CITATION
The 2002 Margaret Mann Citation was presented to Jean L.
Hirons, CONSER coordinator, during the Annual Conference of the
American Library Association (ALA) in Atlanta. Dan Kinney of the
Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS)
presented the award June 17 at the ALCTS President's Program and
a reception was held that evening at Emory University.
Hirons attributes much of the success of her activities and
those of CONSER, the serials cataloging component of the Program
for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) to the support provided her by the
Library of Congress. The support received from LC's management
provides a foundation for PCC's leadership role in facilitating
cooperative efforts.
The Margaret Mann Citation Committee presented the award to
Hirons for her "extraordinary contributions to serials cataloging."
According to the citation, Hirons has influenced both the theory
and practice of serials cataloging in a changing environment. The
award recognizes her work in laying the foundation for revising the
_Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules_ (AACR) to accommodate current
trends in serials and in developing the Serials Cataloging
Cooperative Training Program, a new concept in training serials
catalogers.
In 1997, Hirons and the late Crystal Graham of the University
of California, San Diego, wrote "Issues Related to Seriality," a
paper which analyzed the characteristics of emerging forms of
Web-based resources. Hirons was then commissioned by the Joint
Steering Committee for Revision of AACR (JSC) to develop rule
revision proposals.
Hirons enlisted the help of colleagues from throughout the
United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada
to explore and propose broad changes to the cataloging rules. As
a result, the existing AACR2 Chapter 12: "Serials" has introduced
the concept of "continuing resources" by providing rules for the
cataloging of Web sites, databases, and looseleaf publications. The
new rules will be issued in August and implemented on Dec. 1.
From 1997 to 1999, Hirons worked with colleagues nationwide
to develop the concept for the training of serials catalogers
built on the collaborative model of CONSER. The program was
inaugurated in 1998 in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of
CONSER, and the first course was produced in 1999.
Under the Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program
model, expert catalogers develop course materials and serve as
trainers. OCLC network affiliates, library associations, and
individual institutions sponsor workshops. LC's Cataloging
Distribution Service distributes course materials. Three courses
have been released, and two more will be released in 2002-2003.
Course materials have been translated into Spanish, French, and
Chinese, and courses have been given to hundreds of trainees
throughout the United States and Canada. Courses are scheduled for
Taiwan, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and China.
The Mann award consists of a citation and a $2,000
scholarship, which is donated by OCLC, Inc., to be designated by
the recipient to the library school of his/her choice. Hirons has
designated the University of Rhode Island School of Library and
Information Science, which named her alumna of the year in 2002.
Hirons was also the recipient of the Bowker/Ulrichs Serials
Librarianship Award in 1996 in recognition of her contributions to
documentation and training.
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GOLDBERG RECEIVES ANDREWS BIBLIOGRAPHIC AWARD
Jolande E. Goldberg, law classification specialist in the
Cataloging Policy and Support Office, was awarded the 2002 Joseph
Andrews Bibliographic Award for an outstanding publication by the
American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) for _Library of
Congress Classification. KBR, KBU: History of Canon Law. Law of the
Roman Catholic Church, the Holy See_, the most recent volume of
_Library of Congress Classification Class K: Law._ The award was
presented July 22 at a luncheon during the annual AALL conference,
held this year in Orlando, Fla.
Although the award recognizes a specific publication,
Goldberg's work on the law schedules, which has taken place over
the past thirty years, was described to AALL's awards committee as
"_the_ great legal bibliographic achievement of the 20th century."
During that time she has collaborated with the Law Classification
Advisory Committee of AALL and with scholars and librarians
throughout the world in the fields of law, political science, and
theology.
When Goldberg, a lawyer as well as a librarian, began her law
classification work at the Library of Congress, only the common law
schedules (United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland) had
already been written. Now nearly complete, the schedules in class
K cover the field of law comprehensively, including legal theory,
civil and theological law, and law of nations.
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BASA RECEIVES KLUGE STAFF FELLOWSHIP
Eniko Basa, senior serials cataloger in the National Serials
Data Program, has received the 2002 Kluge staff fellowship. The
Kluge staff fellowship is an annual grant that provides an employee
of the Library of Congress the chance to conduct independent
research using the Library's resources and collections. It offers
the opportunity for a highly qualified staff member to participate
in a period of research and residency in the John W. Kluge Center
with a distinguished group of the world's foremost senior research
scholars and the most promising national and international
post-doctoral fellows. During the year of the fellowship, Basa will
be exploring how Hungarian literature has been transformed in
recent times toward a greater emphasis on both the inner self and
the larger world, a trend that has made Hungarian literature both
more cosmopolitan and universal. Basa will also examine how such
trends have influenced other national literatures of the region.
Basa has written numerous articles and edited a book on the topic
(_Hungarian Literature_. New York, Published for the Council on
National Literatures by Griffon House Publications, c1993) and
holds a Ph. D. in comparative literature from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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LC HIRING CATALOGERS
The Cataloging Directorate and the Serial Record Division
(Acquisitions Directorate) of the Library of Congress are currently
seeking catalogers for all languages, formats, and subject areas.
You do not need to be a current Library of Congress employee to
apply for any of these positions.
The Serial Record Division plans to hire four catalogers. The
Cataloging Directorate expects to hire more than 25 monograph
catalogers. The serial cataloger position and several monograph
cataloger positions have already been posted on the USAJOBS Web
site, the United States government's official source of information
for Federal jobs, and more are expected soon. The deadline to
apply for the serial cataloger positions is Sept. 3. The deadline
to apply for the law monograph cataloger position is August 16.
Application deadlines for other monograph cataloger positions vary.
To read the vacancy announcements and submit your application
online, please keep checking the USAJOBS site at URL
[August 2002] for vacancy
announcements throughout the summer and September.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC CONTROL OF WEB RESOURCES ACTION PLAN
The Cataloging Directorate has published an updated version of
"Bibliographic Control of Web Resources: A Library of Congress
Action Plan" available online at URL
[August
2002]. This version includes the detailed work plan for ten of the
action items included in the plan. Each work plan includes such
information as the name and contact information for the lead person
and institutional affiliation, the names and/or institutional
affiliation of others participating in the work item, definition of
activity to be pursued, the task components and deliverables, as
well as the timeline for completion of the action item. As
developments occur, these work plans will be revised to include
status information.
The ten work plans cover the following action items:
1.3: "Compile/review/disseminate selection criteria for
electronic resources to supplement traditional selection criteria
(e.g., authorship, content, provenance, accuracy, relevance to
institutional mission, and subject matter) used by libraries,
archives and museums. Supplemental criteria include: design, use,
timeliness, permanence, quality of links to other sites, value-
added utility beyond print version, originating domain, downloading
capability, uniqueness, reverse links, etc."
1.4: "Design mechanisms to harvest, archive, and provide
access to selected government publications through partnerships
with government agencies and/or academic institutions."
2.2: "Promote the international sharing and collaborative use
of 'authority' information (authority records for names of persons,
corporate bodies, works/expressions/manifestations/items, subjects,
etc also called controlled vocabularies) starting with personal
name authority records, launching a prototype of a virtual
international authority file."
2.3: "Explore ways to enrich metadata records by focusing on
providing additional subject and other access mechanisms (e.g.,
front-end user thesauri) and increasing granularity of access and
display (e.g., by enabling progression through hierarchy and
versions and by additional description information including
summaries)."
3.3: "Provide a table indicating explicit linking techniques
that currently are provided in AACR2, LCRIs, and in MARC, to use
when linking a bibliographic, holdings, or authority record with a
digital resource; linking between records for related resources;
and linking records for manifestations of the same
work/expression."
3.5: "Prepare guidelines for deciding when to create separate
bibliographic records and when to create a single record for
manifestations."
4.1: "(1) Develop specifications for the creation and
maintenance of records for titles contained in aggregator packages
that will enable vendors to produce high-quality bibliographic data
and accurate information about the volumes/dates of coverage of
individual titles. In addition to the creation of original
records, vendors must be able to provide customers with high-
quality updated bibliographic records when bibliographic data
and/or scope of coverage change significantly. Communicate the
specifications to the vendor community and encourage their
adoption; (2) Communicate to the library community (especially
public services and acquisitions librarians) about the importance
of securing appropriate bibliographic control and maintenance as a
component of subscribing to an aggregator package."
5.1: "Improve and enhance curricula in library and information
science schools by (1) identifying and preparing students with core
competencies for library technical services (e.g., analytic skills,
partnering, and interpersonal skills); (2) devising and conducting
training to produce flexible and resourceful cataloging
professionals with an appropriate mind set and values and advanced
problem-solving, operations, management and information technology
skills; and (3) promoting the understanding and use of metadata
standards (such as the Dublin Core) for describing and managing
electronic and digital resources, with the goal of enabling greater
participation of new LIS professionals in the development and
refinement of metadata standards used both within and outside
libraries."
5.3: "Address continuing education needs for library technical
services practitioners by (1) identifying and enhancing core
competencies (e.g. analytical skills, collaborative and
interpersonal skills) among library catalogers; (2) devising and
conducting training to enhance practitioners' mind set and values,
problem-solving, operations, management and information technology
skills; and (3) promoting the understanding, use, and refinement of
metadata standards (such as Dublin Core) for describing and
managing electronic and digital resources, with the goal of
enabling greater participation in the development and refinement of
metadata standards used both within and outside libraries."
6.3: "Support research and development to improve controlled
vocabulary mediating tools, including a simplified LCSH:
development of the Faceted Application Terminology (FAST)."
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AACR2 2002 REVISION
Although the _Library of Congress Rule Interpretations_
(LCRI), update no. 2, 2002, incorporating the changes to be
published in the _Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules_, 2002 revision,
have been distributed, the 2002 Revision and these LCRI will not be
implemented by the Library of Congress or the Program for
Cooperative Cataloging until Dec. 1, 2002.
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