Cataloging 2009: Resources, Issues, Challenges

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Transportation Librarians Roundtable
8 January 2009
Today’s Session:
“Cataloging 2009: Resources, Issues, Challenges”
Paul Burley, Northwestern University Transportation Library

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Machine Readable Cataloging Record (MARC) for the Transportation Librarians Roundtable Session
100 field: Burley, Paul R (Paul Robert) (1970 -)
245 field: Cataloging 2009: Resources, Issues, Challenges
260 field: Evanston, Ill. Northwestern University Transportation Library, 2009
500 field: January 8, 2009
650 field: Cataloging of transportation literature
710 field: Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).Transportation Library

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Discussion points:

1. Changes in cataloging environment in 2008
2. Developments in RDA in 2008

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Μεταβολὴ πάντων γλυκύ.
-- Αριστοτέλης (384 – 322 π.χ.)

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"Change in all things is sweet."

Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)

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Text of the excerpt of a report from the Library of Congress:

"Long-term reliance on Library of Congress leadership and on its provision of cataloging records leads some libraries—even some large libraries with relatively plentiful staff—to think that they bear no responsibility, individually or collectively, for sharing substantively in the work of bibliographic control."

On the Record: Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, January 9, 2008.

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2008: a gradual reduction in original cataloging of transportation-related materials?

• Print monographs: less copy, or vendor records
• Print technical reports for federal, state, and UTCs: much less copy

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2009: new priorities, new "posteriorities"

• What do our statistics tell us?
• What do NUTL users need?
• What does NUTL need?
• What does NU Main Library need?
• What are our cooperative responsibilities (i.e., TRB, UC-Berkeley)?

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2008:
RDA developments

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RDA: what is it?

• Joint Steering Committee (JSC): charged with creating Anglo-American Cataloging Rules 3rd Ed. (AACR3)
• Broadened scope to develop RDA (Resource Description and Access)
• RDA realigned to incorporate Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) model
• Timeline established to roll out RDA in 2009

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RDA: why should our transportation information community take note?

• Cataloging in OCLC primarily created according to AACR2, at national and international level, English and non-English records
• Indexing & bibliographic records from NUTL & Berkeley contributed to TRIS created according to AACR2
• Catalogs/DBs in metadata schemes other than MARC still adhere loosely/closely to AACR2
• Other metadata communities using AACR2-principled data, especially name authority records (NAF)
• Libraries will ultimately need to subscribe to/purchase documentation for, train in, and update systems for RDA

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RDA in 2008:

"…a decision to implement the rules will be based upon the positive evaluation of RDA’s utility within the library and information environment, and criteria reflecting the technical, operational, and financial implications of the new code."

Joint Statement of the Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine, and the National Agricultural Library on Resource Description and Access. May 1, 2008.

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RDA in 2008: Draft Product Release

• Release of web-based product for review deadline not met
• Web-based product not function, PDFs of entire draft released (105 MB)
• Section 10 (chapters 33-37) released as placeholders
• Wiki created for numerous errors in PDF draft

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RDA in 2008: Draft Text

1.1 Terminology
            1.1.1 Explanation of Key Terms
                        There are a number of terms used in this chapter and in chapters 2–4     that carry meanings specific to their use in RDA. The meanings of a             number of key terms are explained below under 1.1.2–1.1.5. Terms      used as data element names are defined at the beginning of the           instructions for the specific element. In addition, all terms used with a             specific technical meaning are defined in the glossary.

RDA [Chapter] 1: General Guidelines On Recording Attributes of Manifestations and Items.

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RDA in 2008: Examples

• All for materials published in Canada
• Contained numerous errors
• Little attempt at non-English and non-Roman script records
• No example that closely resembles a transportation-related resource

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RDA in 2009: Publishing and Cost

• Format of RDA product: full web-based product assured, no other format determined (print, e-book, CD-ROM, etc.)
• Price not determined; to be announced at the end of January 2009

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thanks / questions / comments

MARC record for presentation