Library of Congress Report

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Library of Congress Report to Committee on
Technical Processing CEAL Young Ki Lee Regional
and Cooperative Cataloging Division Library of
Congress
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Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division2007
Statistics

• Received 53,979 items
• Completed 61,707 items
• Copy cataloging 15,376 items
• Minimum level cataloging 5,202 items
• Collection level cataloging 52 items

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Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division2007
Statistics

• New Name Authorities 12,061
• New Series Authorities 110
• Modified Authorities 4,406
• New Subject Authorities 466
• Class Numbers Established 521
• Bibliographic Records Changed 7,107

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Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division2007
Statistics

• Staff 73
• Working Backlog 37,132 titles
• Production of regular work 0.58 t/h

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Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division2007
Highlights

• Combining Cataloging and Acquisitions (Pilot
  Project) Effective Nov. 26, 2007, all 18
  African/Asian Acquisition staff members
  reassigned to RCCD
• SRD staff reassigned to RCCD several serials
  catalogers reassigned to RCCD

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Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division2007
Highlights

• Transition From RLIN21 to Voyager
• RLIN21 ceased August 2007
• Voyager (Library of Congress system)
• Transliterator

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Acquisitions 2007 Highlights

• Acquired 1,073,311 (including CJK) pieces
• through purchase, gift, exchange, or transfer
  from other government agencies
• New electronic resources included
• China Times News Database
• Database of the Chinese Government
• Asian Geospatial Dataset
• North Koreas Newspaper Journals Database
• An official exchange agreement
• with the National Assembly Library of Korea

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Acquisitions 2007 Highlights

• Acquire digital content
• Science materials from Taiwan and for Macau
  publications

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Digital Table of Contents2007 Highlights

• Total production 86,000 TOCs
• 28,692 titles added in FY07, including 2,126
  Chinese, Japanese and Korean PDFs
• 242 English summaries in Chinese, Japanese, or
  Korean materials.

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Bibliographic Data from Vendors

• Bibliographic Services Agreement
• Japan Publications Trading Company (JPTC) 200
  monographs in the areas of humanities and social
  sciences
• Kinokuniya 70 monographs in the area of science
  and technology

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Bibliographic Data from Vendors

• China National Publishing Industry Trading
  Corporation (CNPITC)
• Initial Bibliographic Control (IBC) records for
  some Chinese materials

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Bibliographic Data from Vendors

• Eulyoo Publishing Company
• A cooperative agreement for bibliographic
  services was signed in Oct. 2006. to purchase
  initial bibliographic control records.
• Disrupted by the closure of the RLIN
  bibliographic utility

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Cataloging Policy and Support Office2007
Highlights

• Transition From RLIN21 to Voyager
• Change in Practice for Spacing in Chinese,
  Japanese, and Korean
• Frequently Asked Questions Cataloging of
  Nonroman Script Materials at the Library of
  Congress in a Post-RLIN World

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Cataloging Policy and Support Office2007
Highlights

• Non-roman data in Authority records
• Discussing with NACO nodes
• Implementation in April 2008, or later
• White Paper Issues Related to Non-Latin
  Characters in Name Authority Records
• CJK script data for non-book materials, such as
  maps, music, posters, etc.

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Cataloging Policy and Support Office2007
Highlights

• LC Classification Schedules
• E-F (History America)
• H (Social Sciences)
• M (Music)
• N (Fine Arts)
• PN (Literature General)
• Q (Science)
• T (Technology)
• Classification Web (the official version) is
  updated daily, overnight

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Cataloging Policy and Support Office2007
Highlights

• KNN (Chinese law)
• Non-roman script (Chinese) added

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Chinese Team2007 Highlights

• Received 10,716 (-21)
• Completed 12,369 (-3)
• Work on hand 1,340 (-57)
• MLC increased 240 to 2,213, including 1,355
  microforms
• South Manchuria Railway Company Collection,
  Taiwan Election Collection, and the Overseas
  Chinese Activities Collection
• Subject headings and classification handbook
  for Chinese catalogers

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Japanese Team2007 Highlights

• Received 6,809 (14)
• Completed 8,225 (40)
• Work on hand 1,142
• Cataloged 126 Japanese rare art books selected
  from Pre-Meiji Works in the Library
• Processed 1,208 Japanese serial titles from South
  Manchurian Railroad, published 1909-1944
• LC-CEAL Cataloging Internship

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Korean/Chinese Team2007 Highlights

• Received 6,667 (-11)
• Completed 7,639 (9)
• Work on hand 546
• 120 titles of Rare Korean religious materials
  from the late 19th century and early 20th century
• Revision of the Korean romanization and word
  division guidelines

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Reorganization of ABA Directorate (Plan)

• Directorate management plan to implement the
  reorganization at the start of fiscal year 2009

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Thank You