Microsoft Word - tcb18n4_sec3.doc Theology Cataloging Bulletin Section 3 Vol. 18, No. 4—August 2010 3-1 Section Three: News and Views of the Members of the ATLA Technical Services Section Edited by Lynn Berg New Editor Please welcome Tammy Johnson, Technical Services Librarian at Columbia Theological Seminary as the new editor of the News and Views section. She will begin her new responsibilities with the November issue of TCB. Tammy has been active in ATLA for many years, currently serving as a member of the NACO Funnel Project, for example. She will undoubtedly bring her enthusiastic spirit and dedication to TCB as one of the four contributors who give their time and effort to serve all of you as you strive to bring order and access to the wealth of information out there. Thanks, Tammy, and welcome to the TCB team along with Joanna Hause, Eric Friede, and Paul Osmanski. RDA Toolkit The RDA Toolkit is available now for free until August 31. Subscription to Open Access to the Toolkit can be found at http://www.rdatoolkit.org/openaccess. For those of you with subscriptions to Cataloger’s Desktop, although RDA is a separate subscription, it can be set up to be accessible via the Desktop interface, meaning that RDA’s content is indexed and linked to other resources in the Desktop, thus providing a seamless experience. If you wish to purchase the RDA Toolkit after the open access period has expired, the license and pricing options are now available (http://www.rdatoolkit.org/pricing). Consortia and group pricing is an option; however, it needs to be individually priced. Perhaps the Steering Committee can check into this option to see if ATLA can work out a price for our group. RDA Examples The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA has posted PDF’s of RDA examples illustrating the application of RDA to bibliographic records under the Working Documents area of their Web site. The documents are dated 17 June 2010. Complete Examples Cover Letter (http://www.rda- jsc.org/docs/6JSC_RDA_Complete_Examples_Cover_sheet.pdf); Complete Examples (Bibliographic)/Revised (http://www.rda- jsc.org/docs/6JSC_RDA_Complete_Examples_%28Bibliographic%29_revised.pdf); Complete Examples (Authority)/Revised (http://www.rda- jsc.org/docs/6JSC_RDA_Complete_Examples_%28Authority%29_Revised.pdf) Theology Cataloging Bulletin Section 3 Vol. 18, No. 4—August 2010 3-2 Separate Form/Genre Thesaurus to be Established The Policy and Standards Division (PSD) of the Library of Congress announced plans on June 17, 2010 to formally separate form/genre terms from the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) list. The title of the thesaurus will be the Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT), and it will be published later this summer in the Supplemental Vocabularies volume of the 32nd edition of LCSH. In MARC21 bibliographic records, the genre/form terms will appear in the 655 field with a second indicator of “7” and the source code “lcgft” will be placed in subfield $2 (e.g., 655 -7 $a [Term]. $2 lcgft). In MARC21 Authority records, the 008/11 will be coded “z” (Other), and the 040 $f field will be coded “lcgft”. LCCN’s for the genre/form terms will contain the prefix “gf”. The timeline for implementation will be late 2010 or early 2011. Further details can be found on the PSD Web site (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/genreformthesaurus.html) OCLC Webinar: Karen Smith-Yoshimura on Transitioning from and Beyond MARC OCLC has posted links to the webinar (63.6 MB/ 1:28 min.) and slides (4.2 MB/42pp.) of Karen Smith-Yoshimura’s presentation to the 2010 RLG Annual Partnership meeting held in Chicago June 10, 2010) at http://www.oclc.org/research/events/20100610marc.pptx. The webinar can be viewed by visiting http://www5.oclc.org/downloads/research/webinars/20100610marc.m4v. She reviews the findings of working groups that analyzed MARC tag usage and its import for metadata practices. Online Audiovisual Catalogers (OLAC) Conference If you catalog audiovisual materials and have a yearning to go to Georgia, you may be interested in attending the next OLAC conference, which will be October 14-17, 2010 in Macon, Georgia. Online registration is available now. Details are on their Web site ( http://www.olacinc.org/drupal/conference/2010/index.html). LYRASIS Educational Opportunities The following online courses are being offered soon. For a complete list of Summer 2010 courses offered by LYRASIS, see their PDF schedule at http://www.lyrasis.org/~/media/Files/Lyrasis/Classes%20and%20Events/Class%20Sched ules/LYRASIS%20Summer%20Class%20Schedule%202010.ashx. LibraryThing for Libraries and You (10 AM-noon, August 17) Basic MARC Tagging for Serials (10 AM-noon, August 17-18) Koha Advanced Functions (10AM-noon, August 18) Evergreen Cataloging Module (2-4 PM, August 18-19) Theology Cataloging Bulletin Section 3 Vol. 18, No. 4—August 2010 3-3 LYRASIS Summit on the Future of Cataloging LYRASIS convened a Summit Meeting of leading academic library directors to discuss the future of cataloging. The Summit was held in Atlanta on May 26, 2010. A summary of the event was prepared by Arnold Hirshon (LYRASIS Chief Strategist and Executive Consultant), and is available in PDF form at http://www.lyrasis.org/Resources/~/media/Files/Lyrasis/Resources/cataloging%20summ it%20report%20distrib.ashx. Chris Schwartz (Metadata Librarian, Princeton Theological Seminary) recently posted her observations on the report on her blog, Cataloging Futures— take a look now at http://www.catalogingfutures.com/catalogingfutures/2010/07/lyrasis- future-of-cataloging-summit-paper.html. Selected Articles from Current Library Journals Han, Myung-Ja, and Patricia Hswe. “The Evolving Role of the Metadata Librarian: Competencies Found in Job Descriptions.” Library Resources & Technical Services 54, no. 3 (July 2010): 129-141. Howarth, Lynne C., Leslie Moor, and Elisa Sze. “Mountain to Molehills: The Past, Present, and Future of Cataloging Backlogs.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 48, no. 5 (2010): 423-444. Kiczek, Steven A. “Thomas Mann’s Contributions to Current Library Debates on Cataloging and Bibliographic Control.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 48, no. 5 (2010): 450- 471. Wu, Annie, and Anne M. Mitchell. “Mass Management of E-Book Catalog Records: Approaches, Challenges, and Solutions.” Library Resources & Technical Services 54, no. 3 (July 2010): 164-174.