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Carol Reid | 4 Jul 07:00

Daily Typo - July 3, 2009 - Throuth (for Through)

Typo of the Day for Librarians
Throuth (for Through)

People have been known to seek Truth in many different ways. Some do it 
through study, some through observation, some through service, and some 
through meditation. They pledge their troth to these practices like 
others pledge love and loyalty to a spouse. Such efforts do not always 
pay off, though, causing them to throw over the truth in order to line 
up like pigs at the trough of sensual delights. Today's typo looks as if 
it might be standing in for some of the words that appear in the first 
several sentences above (/truth/, /through/, /troth/, /though/, /throw/, 
and /trough/). However, the nine we found in OhioLINK were all for the 
word /through/. This flub seems to occur when we think we're all through 
after getting to the U and start over at the beginning before finishing 
up at the end.

(/La Vérité/ by Jules Joseph Lefebvre, 1870, from Wikimedia Commons.)

Carol Reid

Extracted, for AUTOCAT, from Typo of the Day for Librarians at 
http://librarytypos.blogspot.com/. If you have comments about the words 
selected, how they are selected, or the way the items are written, 
please contact Terry Ballard <terry.ballard@...>.

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Carol Reid | 4 Jul 07:00

Daily Typo - July 2, 2009 - Sliver* (for Silver*)

Typo of the Day for Librarians
Sliver* (for Silver*)

In today's tarnished economy, a small sliver of silver may soon be worth 
more than a tall pile of paper. Eleven results were returned for a 
search in OhioLINK on *Sliver* + Silver**. One, for a recording by Fats 
Waller, renders the title: "By the light of the slivery [i.e. silvery] 
moon." One appears to contain both words correctly spelled. And in 
another case, we're faced with either a /Henry Silver/ or a /Henry 
Sliver/, although I'm gonna put my money on the first. There may, of 
course, be other cases of *Sliver** for /silver*/ in the catalog, but 
since both are words in their own right, a combined search is probably 
the best way to data mine them efficiently. At any rate, I only found 
pieces of eight, so it could certainly be a lot worse. Remember, while 
your piece of the pie may be just a tiny sliver, every cloud has a 
silver lining.

(I like the doting way the uploader describes this picture on Wikimedia: 
"A small, shiny, freshly refined lump of pure, fine silver metal.")

Carol Reid

Extracted, for AUTOCAT, from Typo of the Day for Librarians at 
http://librarytypos.blogspot.com/. If you have comments about the words 
selected, how they are selected, or the way the items are written, 
please contact Terry Ballard <terry.ballard@...>.  

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Lorna Young | 3 Jul 22:24

Models for cataloguing priorities in public libraries

Dear collective wisdom

I would appreciate any models, department manuals, etc. that you can 
recommend on deciding cataloguing priorities in public libraries.  How are 
you doing it at your place?

I've identified some facets relating to our collection. These include:
Fiction
Non Fiction
Format
Holds present on receipt
No. of copies
Language
Firm Order
Automatic release plan
Physical processing complexity
Cataloguing complexity
full or nearly full record at time of receipt?
Weeding schedule (why spend a lot of time if the item will be weeded a 
year later?)
Circulation statistics
Received shelf-ready from vendor
On locally created best seller list
Periodicals
Standing orders
Government publications (both print and electronic)

Are there are other facets that you take into consideration at your 
respective workplaces? Best practices?

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J. McRee Elrod | 3 Jul 19:04

RDA changes

Following is the message going out to cataloguers concerning the new
JSC document covering RDA changes from RDA.

   __       __   J. McRee (Mac) Elrod (mac@...)
  {__  |   /     Special Libraries Cataloguing   HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/
  ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________

-------- Forwarded message --------
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:46:48 -0700
From: mac@... (J. McRee Elrod)
To: cataloguers@...
Subject: RDA changes

http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/5sec7rev.pdf

It might is be worth printing this out, and placing it in the front of
your AACR2 binder if you have one, and it not, in a 3-ring binder.

Later we will annotate it for changes we will accept and those we will
not.

These are my current thoughts, but suggestions are welcome:

We will follow RDA in omitting "[sic]" after errors, and recording all
of the statement of responsibility, making "... [et al.]" no longer
required.

We will record edition statements as found, without abbreviation
unless in the item.

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O'Neil,Rosanna | 3 Jul 17:25

Re: AUTOCAT Digest - 1 Jul 2009 to 2 Jul 2009 (#2009-178)

Greetings.

OCLC Contract Cataloging also offers cataloging in Arabic.  Please have
the interested party contact me at oneilr@...

Thank you!

 
--Rosanna O'Neil
********************************** 
Rosanna M. O'Neil, M.L.S. 
Contract Cataloging Consultant 
OCLC 
6565 Kilgour Place 
Dublin, OH 43017-3395 
T: (866) 945-6335; (330) 549-9535 
F: (614) 718-7153 
M: (330) 259-6492 
Email: oneilr@... 
http://www.oclc.org/contractcataloging/ 

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Nathalie Schulz | 3 Jul 10:44

Revised RDA background documents

A number of RDA background documents have been updated in line with 
the final RDA text supplied to the co-publishers for the first 
release, including the element analysis and the FRBR and FRAD mappings:

http://www.rda-jsc.org/rda.html#scope

The list of AACR2 changes has also been revised, and now includes a 
comparison of AACR2 SMDs with RDA vocabularies:

http://www.rda-jsc.org/working2.html#sec-7

Please send any queries to: jscsecretary@...

Nathalie Schulz
(outgoing) Secretary, JSC

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Susan Moore | 2 Jul 23:52

ALCTS CCS/MAGERT Cartographic Materials Cataloging Interest Group July 12

The ALCTS CCS/MAGERT Cartographic Materials Cataloging Interest Group 
will meet on Sunday morning at 8:00.

Colleen Cahill will be giving a presentation on personalizing 
Cataloger's Desktop. After that, discussion will continue about 
form/genre headings for cartographic materials. If time permits, there 
will be an open discussion of topics of interest.

Hope to see you there!

Susan Moore
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA  50613
susan.moore@...

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Les Hawkins | 2 Jul 22:05

Cataloger.s Learning Workshop on iTunes U

Please see the June 30, 2009 announcement from Library of Congress Public
Affairs Office at: http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2009/09-136.html describing
the launch of "The Library of Congress on iTunes U." Instructions are
provided for downloading the iTunes application to access Cataloger.s
Learning Workshop (CLW) materials and other Library of Congress resources.

Fourteen courses from the CLW are part of the offerings on the "Library's
iTunes U" site. CLW provides training materials related to the
organization and classification of bibliographic
information. Participating programs in the CLW include: Cataloging for the
21st Century (CAT21), Cooperative Cataloging Training (CCT), and the
Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program (SCCTP).

The Cooperative and Instructional Programs Division of the Acquisitions
and Bibliographic Access Directorate at the Library of Congress provides
information and free access to CLW materials through the CLW web site
at: http://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/ .

Sincerely
Les Hawkins
CONSER Coordinator
Library of Congress
lhaw@...
tel. 202 707-5185

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Bill Leonard | 2 Jul 19:27

hosting of JSC website by LAC

An Autocat post on June 28, 2009 mentioned the move of the JSC website from 
Library and Archives Canada's (LAC) servers to an independent server.  LAC 
has hosted the JSC site for several years dating back to a time when 
commercial hosting services were not as abundant as today.  Over the years, 
the JSC site was one of the more popular areas on the LAC website.  In this 
past year, websites on Government of Canada servers became subject to more 
stringent requirements and re-building the JSC website to meet those 
requirements was simply not feasible.  Also, the JSC webmaster/secretary 
now has immediate and direct control over the site instead of having to 
wait for LAC staff to upload changes.

LAC continues to be an active member of the Joint Steering Committee 
through its role as the parent body and secretariat of the Canadian 
Committee on Cataloguing and as one of the Committee of Principals. 

For information on LAC's plans for implementation of RDA, please see this 
FAQ:
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/cataloguing-standards/040006-1107-
e.html#m
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/normes-de-catalogage/040006-1107-f.html#m

Bill Leonard
A/Manager  |  Gestionaire par intérim
Strategic Office, Standards  |  Bureau de la Stratégie, Normes
Library and Archives Canada  |  Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
550 De la Cité blvd  |  550, blvd de la Cité
Gatineau, Québec  K1A 0N4
Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada
bill.leonard@...
Telephone   |  Téléphone : 1-819-994-6936

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Wayne Richter | 2 Jul 19:01

Re: Arabic material cataloguing

Mac asked <<Is there an unmet market for Arabic cataloguing in North America?  
Would the interest be in romanized or Arabic script records?>>

Other than large research libraries, Backstage would probably be the most likely user of an Arabic
language cataloguer. (I don't have an address immediately at hand). At the present time, I can't imagine a
library wanting only romanized records.

Wayne Richter
Asian Materials Specialist/PCC Liaison
The Libraries
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA 98225-9103

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McGrath, Kelley C. | 2 Jul 18:23

OLAC Draft of Operational defintions for moving image works

The Online Audiovisual Catalogers (OLAC) Cataloging Policy Committee's Moving Image Work-Level
Records Task Force has completed a draft of its report and recommendations for operational definitions
for a sample of five attributes of or roles needed for moving image work/primary expression records.

We started out with the intention to simply write definitions for each term. However, while thinking about
these pieces of information in the context of a shared, online database, we decided that it would be useful
to investigate at least some types of "data about data" and to consider how we might be able to accommodate
different types of data (e.g., both identifiers and textual strings) and deal with different levels of
data reliability. We have tried to explain our reasoning and process in the introductory section. We do
not believe that this draft has reached its final form yet, but we do think that we have come to a point where
it would be useful to get feedback from a larger group on the perceived viability of our general approach.
To evaluate the document, you may find it helpful to attempt to create a few sample records using these guidelines.

This section will also include an annotated list of potential sources for work-level information. The
secondary sources section is not quite complete, but we hope to issue a draft in the near future.

The draft report is available on the OLAC web site at http://olacinc.org/drupal/?q=node/27 as Part 3a
(http://olacinc.org/drupal/capc_files/MIWpt3aDraft.pdf). We will take comments and suggestions
on the draft through Friday, July 31. Comments may be sent to me at
kmcgrath@... or to this list.

Thank you in advance for your input.

Kelley McGrath
OLAC/CAPC Moving Image Work-Level Records Task Force chair
kmcgrath@...

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