Library Cataloging
News from LC.
- Autosuggesting Fast Subjects
OCLC has announced a new Web service that Autosuggests FAST Subjects. OCLC Research announces the availability of assignFAST, a new Web service that automates the manual selection of FAST Subjects (the Authorized and Use For headings) based on autosuggest...
- Planning For The Lc/naco Authority File For Under Rda
Get your comments in by April 15. The PCC Acceptable Headings Implementation Task Group has prepared for comment a series of documents describing various aspects of the preparation of the LC/NACO Authority File for use under RDA. These documents replace,...
- Names In Rda
Help get the NACO/LC Authority File ready for RDA. The Acceptable Headings Implementation Task Group has been established by the Program for Cooperative Cataloging to develop an implementation plan for preparing the LC/NACO authority file for RDA. The...
- Field 720
Why do I so rarely see field 720 used? I just downloaded a record that had two names not in the LC Authority file, yet both were in field 700. Here is the description of field 720 from MARC Full. Added entry in which the name is not controlled in an authority...
- Name Authority Records
News form LC concerning Name Authority Records.The Library of Congress is pleased to announce that OCLC has completed the pre-population of the NACO authority file with non-Latin references (authority 4XX fields) derived from non-Latin bibliographic heading...
Library Cataloging
Authority File Changes
News from LC.
The Policy and Standards Division has posted a document: Summary of Programmatic Changes to the LC/NACO Authority File at: http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/pdf/lcnaf_rdaphase.pdf This process of programmatic changes signals the initial phase of RDA implementation in the authority file that was agreed upon with the Program for Cooperative Cataloging. The recoding of the LC/NAF will take place in two phases:
Phase One will consist only of adding a 667 note to the name authority record (started on July 30, 2012)
Phase Two will consist of the actual progammatic changes to the 1XX heading that are not acceptable under RDA (e.g., changes to Bible headings, spelling out Dept. and months, etc., in the subfield $d for personal names). This Phase is scheduled to take place before March 31, 2013.
The summary provides guidance to RDA catalogers to help determine what to do when encountering a name authority record with the 667 note added in this Phase One.
- Autosuggesting Fast Subjects
OCLC has announced a new Web service that Autosuggests FAST Subjects. OCLC Research announces the availability of assignFAST, a new Web service that automates the manual selection of FAST Subjects (the Authorized and Use For headings) based on autosuggest...
- Planning For The Lc/naco Authority File For Under Rda
Get your comments in by April 15. The PCC Acceptable Headings Implementation Task Group has prepared for comment a series of documents describing various aspects of the preparation of the LC/NACO Authority File for use under RDA. These documents replace,...
- Names In Rda
Help get the NACO/LC Authority File ready for RDA. The Acceptable Headings Implementation Task Group has been established by the Program for Cooperative Cataloging to develop an implementation plan for preparing the LC/NACO authority file for RDA. The...
- Field 720
Why do I so rarely see field 720 used? I just downloaded a record that had two names not in the LC Authority file, yet both were in field 700. Here is the description of field 720 from MARC Full. Added entry in which the name is not controlled in an authority...
- Name Authority Records
News form LC concerning Name Authority Records.The Library of Congress is pleased to announce that OCLC has completed the pre-population of the NACO authority file with non-Latin references (authority 4XX fields) derived from non-Latin bibliographic heading...