Sarah-
And this about the backlash against Def Phat Cool Cats ...
-- Jim
At 05:13 PM 4/24/2006, you wrote:
>The DCM has explicit provisions for recording national-level, Library of
>Congress, and PCC local decisions for form of numbering and tracing
>practice in SARs.
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>In the SAR template that is supplied with the RLIN21 Cataloging Client, the
>prompted field 645 includes "$5DPCC" and when users automatically generate
>authority records from 4XX or 8XX fields, this value is also supplied
>automatically. RLIN21 users can themselves remove this value from
>templates used for series authority records. To prevent this value from
>being prompted in generated records will require a system change that
>cannot be implemented by May 1, 2006.
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>Antony's message says that "the Library of Congress will continue to
>process and redistribute these [series authority] records as part of its
>regular file distribution." What should users do about national-level and
>LC decisions when doing maintenance on existing authority records or
>creating new ones? Will LC reject LC/NACO records that contain "$5DPCC" or
>"$5DLC" in any of the 64X series numbering and treatment fields? I didn't
>see any mention of this in the recent flurry of remarks about this LC
>decision.
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>Ed Glazier
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>RLG
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> Antony Robert
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>The Cooperative Cataloging Team and Series Authority Work
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>In line with the optional treatment for series tracing contained within the
>Core standard, the Library of Congress will begin recording all series
>statements as a 490 0 beginning 1st May 2006. In the ensuing weeks, at the
>PCC Operations Committee meetings, at ALA*Annual, and at other venues, PCC
>members will discuss policy and practical issues related to this decision.
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>The Cooperative Cataloging Team will fulfill current commitments to review
>trainee work in series and to answer questions with the goal of
>independence for those members before the end of this year. In keeping
>with the original announcement from LC, the team will not perform BFM or
>other database revisions, except for the deletion of duplicates found by
>PCC members in the authority files.
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>Decreasing practical familiarity with series work will require the
>Cooperative Cataloging Team to cease training and review.
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>The PCC itself has taken an independent step toward series authority work
>and training through the development in association with ALA's Association
>for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) of two series
>workshops. Preview offerings of these will be held at ALA*Annual in June.
>The announcement by the Library of Congress does not preclude qualified PCC
>members from continuing series authority work through usual NACO channels.
>The Library of Congress will continue to process and redistribute these
>records as part of its regular file distribution.
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>Anthony R.D. Franks
>Team Leader, Cooperative Cataloging Team
>Library of Congress
>202-707-2822 (voice)
>202-252-2082 (fax)
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