BIBCO Standard Record Approved

The PCC Policy Committee (PoCo) has approved the creation of a BIBCO Standard Record (BSR) for monographic materials. The requirements for the BSR for monographs were laid out in the final report of the Task Group on BIBCO Standard Record Requirements, available from the PCC Website at: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/bibco/BSR-Final-Report.pdf

The Policy Committee will be discussing the details of BSR implementation at its upcoming meeting (November 5 and 6, 2009) at the Library of Congress. The PoCo will also consider the process of creating BSR guidelines for other formats. Details will be forthcoming after the November meetings in Washington.

Posted on AUTOCAT by:

Anthony R.D. Franks
Head, Cooperative Programs Section
Cooperative and Instructional Programs Division
Library of Congress
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New Company SkyRiver Sparks Cataloging Competition with OCLC

Will budget-conscious libraries embrace a lower-cost alternative for their bibliographic services?

A new company called SkyRiver has launched a bibliographic utility, directly challenging long-dominant OCLC. Over the last 18 years, strategic acquisitions by OCLC have narrowed competition, but SkyRiver—founded by Jerry Kline, the owner and co-founder of Innovative Interfaces—aims to expand the market and offer an alternative bibliographic utility for cataloging that could save libraries up to 40 percent off their expenditures for bibliographic services.

SkyRiver is already fully operational, with a few libraries engaged as development partners. While the company has not disclosed the names of the participating libraries, at least one is a member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). 

Some of the libraries are expected to go into full production with SkyRiver in mid-October, shifting away from their current bibliographic services. In January 2010, the company will begin broadly marketing its service.

Read the full article by Marshall Breeding here.

GPO Administrative Notes Technical Supplement Has Now Ceased as a Printed Publication

The final issue (November-December 2008) of the Administrative Notes Technical Supplement (ANTS) is being distributed to Federal depository libraries in an upcoming shipment box (as reported on the FDLP website on 9/30/09). ANTS has now ceased as a printed publication. 

The information that was disseminated in ANTS will be available online only in the new WEBTech Notes application.The new WEBTech Notes application is in the final stages of development and will be released from beta in the next few weeks. The final release of the application will feature real-time additions and modifications to records.

In the meantime, the November-December 2008 issue of ANTS can be found online and the legacy WEBTech Notes data is available as anxls file.

(http://www.fdlp.gov/component/content/article/19-general/506-ants-ceased)

Z39.50 Download Limit Increased for Download/Retrieval of records from the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP), effective 10/1/09

Library Services and Content Management (LSCM) is pleased to announce a ninety-day pilot that increases the z39.50 per session limit to 10,000 for download and retrieval of records from the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP), effective October 1, 2009. The existing z39.50 password will remain in place for the duration of the pilot.

The pilot is an incremental step in increasing access to bibliographic records in the CGP via z39.50, raising the per session limit for depository libraries. For the length of the pilot, LSCM automation librarians will closely monitor the effect of the ten-fold limit increase on the ILS servers. Although this is not anticipated, the pilot can be ended at any time should the ILS servers show extreme adverse effects from the increase in activity.

Z39.50 Frequently Asked Questions with configuration and password information can be found on the FDLP Desktop.

(http://www.fdlp.gov/component/content/article/16-cataloging/504-z3950-download-limit)

LCRI Revisions for MARC 21 Changes implemented Sept. 1, 2009

This was implemented last month, so I post simply to place notification on the blog:

Changes in the 4XX field in the MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data include making the 440 field obsolete, redefining the first indicator in the 490 field, and adding subfield $3. These changes are reflected in the revision of six Library of Congress rule interpretations (LCRIs), accessible via the links below. New subfields are also being defined for the 520 field (Summary, etc.); a revised LCRI for this change is also available below. All revised LCRIs will be part of the next LCRI update. These changes to the MARC 21 format will be implemented at the Library of Congress on Sept. 1, 2009.

• Link to LCRI 1.6 Series Area (PDF - 8 p.; 62 KB)
• Link to LCRI 1.6B Title Proper of Series (PDF - 4 p.; 40 KB)
• Link to LCRI 1.6J More Than One Series Statement (PDF - 2 p.; 26 KB)
• Link to LCRI 2.7B17 Summary (PDF - 2 p.; 28 KB)
• Link to LCRI 12.6B1 Series Statements (PDF - 2 p.; 24 KB)
• Link to LCRI 13.3 Analysis of Monographic Series and Multipart Monographs (PDF - 4 p.; 37 KB)
• Link to LCRI 21.30L Series (PDF - 8 p.; 59 KB)

(http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcrichanges.html)

Copyright in archival materials digitization

Dryden, Jean. "Copyright issues in the selection of archival material for internet access." Archival Science 8(2) 2008, at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/d68378548316j886/
This article reports the findings of a study that investigated how copyright affects what items Canadian archival repositories select for digitization and online access. The study found that Canadian repositories select items that are perceived to incur little risk of copyright infringement (because the copyright has expired or because the repository owns the copyright), or those that require few or no resources to investigate copyright status or obtain copyright authorizations. The findings suggest that repositories’ selection decisions are more restrictive than the law requires.

New WorldCat Record Use Policy

OCLC Board of Trustees convenes Council to study and develop new WorldCat Record Use Policy

DUBLIN, OHIO, USA, 14 September 2009

The OCLC Board of Trustees has convened a Record Use Policy Council, which will draw upon the fundamental values of the OCLC cooperative and engage with the global library community to develop the next generation of the WorldCat Record Use Policy. The intent is to recommend to the OCLC Board of Trustees a new policy that is aligned with the present and future information landscape. The new policy will replace the Guidelines for Use and Transfer of OCLC Derived Records that was developed in 1987.

The formation of this council was one of the recommendations contained in the final report <www.oclc.org/us/en/worldcat/catalog/FinalReport_ReviewBoard.pdf> of the OCLC Review Board on the Principles of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship formed in January 2009 to represent the membership and inform OCLC on best practices for sharing library data.

The Policy Council is also charged with carrying out the other recommendations contained in the final report, including development of a policy to enable expanding the role and value of WorldCat in the broad information ecosystem.