Library Cataloging
An announcement form the RDA folks.
- Cataloging Reproductions
Image via WikipediaExcellent news from LC on cataloging reproductions. As it is now it is just too confusing. Determining original format is just impossible in many cases. If something crosses my desk that is a print-out, is it a Word doc that was meant...
- Non-latin Data In Name Authority Records
From LC:As previously announced, MDS- Name Authority records will be enhanced with non-Latin script data in 4XX fields and selected notes beginning June 1, 2008, (see earlier announcements at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/nonroman_announce.pdf and http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/nonlatin_whitepaper.html...
- Lc Test Of Access Level Records
In November of 2004, the Library of Congress Bibliographic Access Divisions posted information related to efforts to define a new level of cataloging within the MARC/AACR context, called access level-- more information related to the background and development...
- Koha
The University at Buffalo Reporter has the article Library students test Internet freeware by Patricia Donovan."our LS 501 students can learn to configure and mount a Koha system from scratch, then test it and provide 'bug' reports to the Koha...
- Marcxml
CDS has made an alternative copy of its MARC Distribution Service test files in MARCXML using the MARC 21 XML schema. The schema is available from the Network Development and MARC Standards Office website.The records are in Unicode, thus the display of...
Library Cataloging
RDA Testers Wanted
An announcement form the RDA folks.
The US National Libraries RDA Test Steering Committee has launched a Website for the RDA test project.The site includes a link to a fill-in PDF application form that you can use to let us know if you're interested in being selected as a test partner.The Test Steering Committee received excellent comments about the project after the RDA Test Planning Forum at ALA Midwinter in Denver. As a result of this feedback, we realized that we needed to ask for more precise information from the potential test participants. So we revised the application form and made it available on the RDA Test Planning Website. Please complete and return the form, even if you submitted an expression of interest earlier.The Website also has links to a proposed timeline and to the methodology that the Steering Committee plans to use for the testing. We'll update the site with additional information as we develop a complete test protocol.Thank you very much for your interest in the US National Libraries RDA Test project. We look forward to hearing from you. As the application form states, we're requesting that anyone interested in participating as a test partner return the PDF application, via email, by April 13.
- Cataloging Reproductions
Image via WikipediaExcellent news from LC on cataloging reproductions. As it is now it is just too confusing. Determining original format is just impossible in many cases. If something crosses my desk that is a print-out, is it a Word doc that was meant...
- Non-latin Data In Name Authority Records
From LC:As previously announced, MDS- Name Authority records will be enhanced with non-Latin script data in 4XX fields and selected notes beginning June 1, 2008, (see earlier announcements at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/nonroman_announce.pdf and http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/nonlatin_whitepaper.html...
- Lc Test Of Access Level Records
In November of 2004, the Library of Congress Bibliographic Access Divisions posted information related to efforts to define a new level of cataloging within the MARC/AACR context, called access level-- more information related to the background and development...
- Koha
The University at Buffalo Reporter has the article Library students test Internet freeware by Patricia Donovan."our LS 501 students can learn to configure and mount a Koha system from scratch, then test it and provide 'bug' reports to the Koha...
- Marcxml
CDS has made an alternative copy of its MARC Distribution Service test files in MARCXML using the MARC 21 XML schema. The schema is available from the Network Development and MARC Standards Office website.The records are in Unicode, thus the display of...