Date: August 31, 2011
Time:  1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Ellis 4F51A

Description: RDA, Resource and Description and Access, is the name of the cataloging rules that are slated to replace AACR2.  This webinar will review the findings and recommendations concerning the implementation of RDA presented in the Report and Recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee. Key findings will be highlighted along with the basis for those findings. The rationale behind the specific recommendations and timelines will be discussed as well as what individuals and/or institutions can do to prepare for the implementation of RDA.

Audience: Anyone wanting to learn about RDA.

Presenters: Barbara Bushman is the Assistant Head, Cataloging Section, National Library of Medicine. Regina Romano Reynolds is ISSN Coordinator at the Library of Congress and former head of the National Serials Data Program, now called the U.S. ISSN Center.

August 1, 2011
1:30 – 3:00 pm
Ellis 4F51A

Description: Resource Description and Access (RDA) is the name of the new cataloging standard slated to replace AACR2.  The Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, and the National Library of Medicine have jointly determined that to achieve a viable and robust metadata infrastructure for the future, RDA should be in that future. This decision was not made lightly, but based on a substantive test using RDA in which 23 libraries and the three U.S. national libraries participated. This webinar will share the thoughts of LC’s Associate Librarian for Library Services, Deanna Marcum, and its Director for Acquisitions & Bibliographic Access, Beacher Wiggins. Dr. Marcum will give her reactions to reviewing and accepting the recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee. Mr. Wiggins, a Coordinating Committee co-chair, will describe the test, findings, and analyses that led to the recommendation to implement RDA not sooner than January 2013.

Presenters:  Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress and Beacher Wiggins, Director for Acquisitions & Bibliographic Access, Library of Congress

The Catalog Department recently coordinated the loading of two record sets into MERLIN:

Bibliotheca Palatina, a collection of microfiche in Special Collections. For more about this record load, see the following Catalog Department blog post.

Center for Research Library Digitized Materials Collection, consisting of over 14,000 titles. You can also read more about this set on the Catalog Department blog.

 

 

Most people know that the four UM libraries share the UM system-funded off-site depositories known as UMLD and U2.  Books from all four campus libraries can be stored in these locations.  June DeWeese is in charge of both  depositories.  The proper procedure for anyone at MU who wants to send materials to storage, or to retrieve a large group of materials, is to set a project in motion by contacting a member of the group that oversees the transfers.  Members of that group are June, Mary Ryan, Felicity Dykas and Ann Riley. They confer and oversee the projects to ensure that projects are scheduled to best serve our users, and best utilize staff and facilities.

The Catalog Department expanded its cataloging skills recently when two svirala were received.  A svirala is a musical instrument from the Balkan Peninsula and is a type of flute.  Thanks to the internet and some detective work, Wayne Sanders was able to track down background information on them.  From that information he was able to supply ”titles”, descriptive information, and subject headings.  The svirala were received as part of a gift from the Albert Bates Lord & Marie Louise Lord family through the efforts of MU Professor John Miles Foley.  Click on the hyperlinks to the images in the MERLIN records to take a look at these unique additions.

MERLIN records:  http://207.160.154.35/search~/Y?searchtype=t&searcharg=svirala&SORT=D&searchscope=0

Wikipedia entry for Albert Lord: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Lord

The MU Libraries Catalog Department received great news at the end of December.  The MU Libraries first became NACO participants in January 2008.  Now, after a long process of training and review, we have achieved the next milestone, “independent” status as NACO members.  NACO, the Name Authority Cooperative Program, is one of four activities of the Library of Congress’ Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC).  NACO members create and maintain authority records that indicate the proper form for personal and corporate names and uniform titles.  Last fiscal year we contributed more than 500 records to the WorldCat and Library of Congress authority files and this year we are on track to contribute even more.  We establish forms of names and create authority records for entities in the United States and elsewhere.  We create many authority records for MU faculty advisors, Missouri geographic regions, and university departments.

Our “independent” status means that our reviewer has evaluated and determined that our skills and leadership meet the PCC standards and guidelines necessary to cooperatively maintain the integrity of the WorldCat and Library of Congress name authority files.

Our NACO Coordinator, Mary Aycock, shepherded us through the process setting up our initial training, providing additional training, reviewing our authority records, and serving as liaison to our NACO trainer, Mary Charles Lasater of Vanderbilt University.

Good news—Early English Books Online records are now available through the MERLIN catalog. Over 110,000 MARC records have been loaded last month. See this entry in the Catalog Dept. blog for more information:  http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/blogs/catdeptblog/?p=494

Wayne Sanders, Catalog Department, recently attended the ACRL Rare Books & Manuscripts Section’s regional workshop Latin for Rare Materials Catalogers held at Indiana University in Bloomington on October 22nd.  Jennifer McDonald, University of Delaware in Newark (formerly of  The Vatican Film Library at Saint Louis University), and Jennifer Nelson, University of California at Berkeley, taught this intensive workshop covering Latin grammar, declination, personal names, place names, abbreviations, contractions from the manuscript tradition, and reference sources to approximately 15 catalogers and library science students from across the country.

Physical Processing/Preservation has, since the purchase of the Minter Welder, been slowly perfecting the process of encapsulating single-sheet items for better preservation and display purposes. Most of these large items are posters from Special Collections (often World War I and II era publications) or Government Documents (typically maps). The items for encapsulation are almost always old and fragile, many of them are quite large, and so safely transporting them from fourth floor down to Physical Processing was a unique challenge for several months. Carrying them between a pair of staff members or staff and students tended to be uneven and often threatened the items’ physical integrity, simply due to differences in height and stride. They also could not be easily laid on a book truck because their size tended to make it likely that they would slip off, strike the elevator on either side, or otherwise escape a safe position. These close calls with the library’s rare resources were simply unacceptable, though there were none that were badly damaged.

Physical Processing staff went through several rounds of attempts to improve handling these items, and finally — after a lot of creative brainstorming among staff and students — a design for a carrier that would fit these items’ needs came about. We needed whatever carrier was designed to meet several criteria, namely that it would: remain stable on a book truck (thus preventing the issues with variable heights and speeds of workers), be wide enough to support the largest items safely, hold them stable at the sides and prevent excess length from causing a problem in any direction, clear all of the elevators and doors in the route, and easily fit on the lift from third to fourth floor. With the capable assistance of Al Messner, our design was built and is now in use.

One of the two series of upcoming webinars is “Using Technology in Library Training Using RDA: Moving into the Metadata Future” sponsored by ALA Tech Source.  These three webinars are 1.5 hours long.  The original New Notes posting (http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/newsnotes/?p=2579) indicated that they are one hour long.  Also, because of a scheduling conflict, the October 27 webinar will be in Ellis 4G41.

Session 1: October 27  — 1:30-3:00 – Moved to Ellis 4G41
New Models of Metadata with Karen Coyle

Session 2: November 10 — 1:30-3:00 – Ellis 4F51A
RDA: Designated for Current and Future Environments with Chris Oliver

Session 3: November 17 — 1:30-3:00 – Ellis 4F51A
RDA Vocabularies in the Semantic Web with Diane Hillmann

Preliminary reading material for this series (optional):

Karen Coyle: Understanding the semantic web:  bibliographic data and metadata, Chapters 1 and 2 (Library Technology Reports, 46 #1)

http://merlin.lib.umsystem.edu/record=b8010196~S8

Diane Hillman, Karen Coyle, Jon Phipps and Gordon Dunsire:  RDA vocabularies: process, outcome, use.

http://dlib.org/dlib/january10/hillmann/01hillmann.html

Barbara Tillett: What RDA is and isn’t (webcast)

http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/trainthetrainer.html (Module 1)

RDA prospectus.

http://www.rda-jsc.org/rdaprospectus.html

Tom Delsey:  Moving cataloguing into the 21^st century.  (presentation with slides and notes)

http://tsig.wikispaces.com/Pre-conferences+2010

RDA scope and structure.

http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/5rda-scoperev4.pdf