Cataloging

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Technical services management, 1965-1990 : a quarter century of change and a look to the future : festschrift for Kathryn Luther Henderson

Abstract: Contents Introduction * PART I: Trends in Technical Services * Technical Services Literature, 1969-1990 * From Catalog to OPAC: A Look at 25 Years of Technical Services in School Libraries * PART II: Acquisitions and Collection Development * Acquisitions and Collection Development * PART III: Catalogs * A History of the Online Catalog in North America * Automating Access to Bibliographic Information * Authority Control * PART IV: Cataloging * Death of a Cataloging Code: Seymour Lubetzky's Code of Cataloging Rules and the Question of Institutions * Descriptive Cataloging * The Transformation of Serials Cataloging 1965-1990 * Minimal Level Cataloging: Past, Present, and Future * PART V: Subject Access * Subject Cataloging * The Dewey Decimal Classification: 1965-1990 * PART VI: Indexing * Indexing, in Theory and Practice * Some Post-War Developments in Indexing in Great Britain * PART VII: Preservation * Preservation: A Quarter Century of Growth * Combining Old World Craftsmanship With New World Technology: A Quarter Century of Library Binding in Review, 1965-1990 * PART VIII: Education and Professional Development * A Quarter Century of Cataloging Education * Continuing Education and Technical Services Librarians: Learning for 1965-1990 and the Future * Recollections of Two Little-Known Professional Organizations and Their Impact on Technical Services * PART IX: Future * The Effect of a Transition in Intellectual Property Rights Caused by Electronic Media on the Human Capital of Librarians * Index * Reference Notes Included

Form Subdivisions: Their Identification and Use in LCSH.

Abstract: Form subdivisions have always been an important part of the Library of Congress Subject Headings. However, when the MARC format was developed, no separate subfield code to identify form subdivisions was defined. Form and topical subdivisions were both included within a general subdivision category. In 1995, the USMARC Advisory Group approved a proposal defining subfield $v for form subdivisions, and in 1999 the Library of Congress (LC) began identifying form subdivisions with the new code. However, there are millions of older bibliographic records lacking the explicit form subdivision coding. Identifying form subdivisions retrospectively is not a simple task. An algorithmic method was developed to identify form subdivisions coded as general subdivisions. The algorithm was used to identify 2,563 unique form subdivisions or combinations of form subdivisions in OCLC's WorldCat. The algorithm proved to be highly accurate with an error rate estimated to be less than 0.1%. The observed usage of the form subdivisions was highly skewed with the 100 most used form subdivisions or combinations of subdivisions accounting for 90% of the assignments. ********** Recent efforts to distinguish between topical and form data are moving Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) closer to a truly faceted subject vocabulary. While form data in LGSH are represented in both form headings and form subdivisions, under the current LC application rules, form data appear in most cases as subdivisions under topical or name headings. In implementing the $v subfield code for form subdivision in the MARC 21 (formerly USMARC) format, a number of issues have come to the fore: * distinction between form and topical subdivisions * combinations of two or more form subdivisions in the same heading string In this article, a method is developed to algorithmically identify form subdivisions lacking explicit form subfield coding. Explicit Coding for Form Subdivisions Form subdivisions have been a part of LCSH since its inception. Beginning in 1906, the Library of Congress issued auxiliary lists of subdivisions that included a section of "General form divisions under subjects." Guidelines on the use of subdivisions, such as those published in the introduction to the eighth edition of Library of Congress Subject Headings (Library of Congress 1975), instructed catalogers to use individual subdivisions either "as a topical subdivision," "as a form subdivision," or "as a form or topical subdivision" under specified types of headings for particular types of materials. Yet when the MARC format for encoding and communicating bibliographic data was developed in the late 1960s, a separate subfield code to identify form subdivisions in subject heading strings was not defined. Form subdivisions were included along with topical subdivisions in a general subdivision category to be coded as $x. In 1991, a conference was convened at Airlie, Va., to consider the role of subdivisions in LCSH. One of the conference's six recommendations was: "The question of whether subdivisions should be coded specifically to improve online displays for end users should be considered ... In particular, the Library of Congress should investigate implementing a separate subfield code for form subdivi sions" (O'Hara Conway 1992). In response, the Library of Congress requested that the ALA Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) Cataloging and Classification Section (CCS) Subject Analysis Committee (SAC) investigate form subdivision coding. Hemmasi, Miller, and Lasater (1999) report on the issues: that SAC identified and studied, including retrospective conversion, varying cataloging practices and user needs across disciplines, no distinct list of form headings, cataloger training, and the redundancy of content in US MARC record elements" (unnumbered). In 1993, SAC recommended that a separate sub field code for form subdivisions be implemented. …

Developing a Premodern Manuscript Application Profile Using Dublin Core

Abstract: Librarians and catalogers, particularly at small repositories, often do not have the training or access to experts to fully describe a medieval manuscript for cataloging, much less digital access. But some descriptions must be available to attract researchers to work with the materials, which are often considered institutional treasures. Approaching manuscripts can be daunting for metadata specialists and catalogers. The Dublin Core Premodern Manuscripts Application Profile (PMAP), currently under development, is designed to be an educational and simple tool for medievalists with little knowledge of metadata and librarians with little knowledge of manuscript studies to facilitate discovery of manuscripts in little-known collections.

Library technology in the next 20 years

Abstract: Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the agenda for library technology for the next 20 years. Design/methodology/approach A long-term historically based analysis of the evolving roles of librarians and library technology, especially the catalog. Findings The rise of standardized cataloging codes, communications formats, bibliographical utilities, and software for online searching constitutes a great triumph in universal bibliographical access for everybody. But each reader is unique and no-one is “everybody” so a uniform service is not ideal for all. The ideal librarian knows both the collection and the readers. The catalog is a guide to the collection and a surrogate for the librarian. The librarian understands the readers. The development of library technology will remain significantly incomplete until the uniqueness of each reader is accommodated. Some ways to do that are noted. Research limitations/implications Research and development should focus on relating the uniqueness of individuals to the uniformity of services provided. Practical implications Strategic directions are indicated. Originality/value Provides a perspective on the development of library service in terms of changing relationships between technology and librarians.

Cataloging Popular Music Recordings

Abstract: SUMMARY This paper provides an overview of the cataloging process for popular music sound recordings, from the initial description of the item to the final assignment of subject headings and name and/or title access points. While isolated aspects of the process have been covered in general elsewhere, little has been written describing the entire process especially as applied to popular music recording cataloging specifically. The paper also briefly discusses useful reference sources for popular music cataloging and problems of indexing and keyword searching as they relate to popular music recordings.