BCC2007/Auth/1

CAPC/ACIG Report from ALA Midwinter Meeting
Seattle, January 2007
Submitted by Margaret Kaus

OLAC/CAPC Meeting
Reports and discussions:

• MARBI Report (J. Attig):  John briefly discussed various proposals that would be discussed at the upcoming MARBI meeting.
• CC:DA Report and RDA Task Force (G. de Groat): RDA is currently scheduled to roll out in early 2009.  Part B of RDA will be available for review in late December 2007.  Further review of chapter 3 will begin in March.
• NACO-AV Report (K. McGrath for A. Caldwell and D. Prochazka):  Report on the number of authorities contributed and revised.
• Form/Genre Headings (K. McGrath for D. Reser): At this time, nothing to update.  The creation of the music form/genre headings has been postponed to allow for the new edition of class M schedule.
• DVD Guide Revision and Update Task Force (K. McGrath for K. Johnson): The task force has been on hiatus.  The task force has divided the work into two subgroups.  Sue Neumeister has created a wikki.
• Streaming Media Best Practices Task Force (J. Ho): Tasks have been divided into subgroups.  Currently creating examples.  Hope to finish by March, so as to present in May.

New business:
There was discussion on cataloging of playaways. It was decided to form a task force in conjunction with members of the Music Library Association to create a Best Practices document.

ACIG (LITA/ALCTS Authority Control in the Online Environment Interest Group)

Update from LC:
Ann Della Porta, Acting Coordinator, Integrated Systems Office (Library of Congress) gave a brief update on changes concerning authorities at the Library of Congress, including:

• Changes to subject headings for God
• Chinese characters added in LC classification
• Previous versions of authority records now available in OCLC, accessible using Connexion client 1.70 or Connexion browser
• LC is coordinating with OCLC, British Library, Library and Archives Canada and National Library of Medicine to begin inputting non-roman data into authorities using 4xx/7xx fields. Policy and timeline are in development.

• Mary Mastraccio, Cataloging & Authorities Librarian, MARCIVE, Inc.
• Marsha Hunt, Database Services Librarian, Library Technologies, Inc.
• John Reese, Product Manager, Authority Control Team, Backstage Library Works

ACIG Business Meeting

Agenda included:

Assessment of the open session

Sandy Roe gave an overview of the program session for ALA Annual ACIG program, Washington, DC, 2007. Proposed title: Authority Control Meets Faceted Browse. The program’s aims are to introduce the audience to facet theory, showcase implementations in library catalogs and digital collections, and facilitate discussion on how structured authority data might better support this type of navigation. Two speakers have been confirmed: Kathryn La Barre (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), who would define and give a historical overview of facet theory, and Charley Pennell (University of North Carolina), who would report on Endeca’s use of faceting and on efforts to incorporate data from authority records into user searching. Additional speakers have been contacted but have not yet been confirmed.

Sandy mentioned that a new LITA interest group was forming, with the title of “Next-Generation Catalog Interest Group.” She thought that the group, even in this formative stage, could be approached about co-sponsoring the ACIG program, and will attend the group’s Monday meeting to learn more.

Upcoming elections in June for ACIG Vice-Chair/Chair Elect, Secretary, Member-at-large for series, Member-at-large for names, and Member-at-large for subjects.

Discussed possible program topics for ALA Midwinter 2008.

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