OBS-SIS: Online Bibliographic Services Special Interest Section of AALL's Notes
The OBS-SIS Website of the Month for August is now available.
You'll find some of the materials for the OBS-SIS presentations given at this year's AALL Annual Meeting on the OBS website. If you want to refresh your memory or didn't get a chance to attend a session here's your chance to review the presentation slides.
Greetings OBS members,
As a service to OBS members, at least one MARC record for a legal website or electronic resource is distributed on this OBS list each month.
Kudos to Lyonette Louis-Jacques, the Foreign and International Law Librarian & Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago D'Angelo Law Library, for making me aware of this month's first site -- Nixontapes.org -- via one of her Twitter posts. This site contains transcripts and mp3 files of Nixon tapes made between February 1971 and July 1973 (approximately 2,150 hours and 6,000 audio files). Also included are the NARA-created tape logs and time codes, the president's daily diary, and pertinent information about each conversation. Topics include discussions of the Watergate affair, conversations with advisers (mainly Henry Kissinger), visits to China, and domestic and foreign policy, including the Vietnam war.
You can view the bibliographic record for Nixontapes.org in the University of Colorado Law Library's catalog at: http://128.138.161.92/reco
This month's second site is OpenCongress. This site is a project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation, and describes itself as "[a]n open-source, non-partisan, legislative Web resource that uses structured data scraped from THOMAS by GovTrack.us to show legislative information - bills, committees, member profiles - in a more useable format. OpenCongress.org offers RSS feeds as an easy and convenient way to follow the latest news and blog mentions relating to a bill, a vote or a member of Congress. The site serves as a rich resource for political bloggers, issue-based membership groups, and individuals."
You can view the bibliographic record for OpenCongress in the University of Colorado Law Library's catalog at: http://128.138.161.92/reco
Finally, a closely related site is the Sunlight Foundation. The Sunlight Foundation was founded in 2006 with the goal of using technology to enable citizens to learn more about what their elected representatives are doing, to help reduce corruption, ensure greater transparency and accountability by government, and foster public trust in the institutions of democracy. The site features include Congressional ethics, political spending, earmarking, and watchdog information; blogs and reports monitoring Congress; grant information; and "Sunlight Seekr," a tool using name or zip code to cross-search multiple web sites to keep tabs on Congress.
You can view the bibliographic record for the Sunlight Foundation in the University of Colorado Law Library's catalog at: http://128.138.161.92/reco
If you have encountered (and especially if you have cataloged) a particularly useful or interesting website that you'd like to share via the Website of the Month message, please pass the suggestion along to me at: Karen.Selden@colorado.edu.
Please address any questions or comments about the MARC records or OPAC displays to: Yumin.Jiang@colorado.edu or Karen.Selden@colorado.edu
Karen
As a service to OBS members, at least one MARC record for a legal website or electronic resource is distributed on this OBS list each month.
Kudos to Lyonette Louis-Jacques, the Foreign and International Law Librarian & Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago D'Angelo Law Library, for making me aware of this month's first site -- Nixontapes.org -- via one of her Twitter posts. This site contains transcripts and mp3 files of Nixon tapes made between February 1971 and July 1973 (approximately 2,150 hours and 6,000 audio files). Also included are the NARA-created tape logs and time codes, the president's daily diary, and pertinent information about each conversation. Topics include discussions of the Watergate affair, conversations with advisers (mainly Henry Kissinger), visits to China, and domestic and foreign policy, including the Vietnam war.
You can view the bibliographic record for Nixontapes.org in the University of Colorado Law Library's catalog at: http://128.138.161.92/reco
This month's second site is OpenCongress. This site is a project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation, and describes itself as "[a]n open-source, non-partisan, legislative Web resource that uses structured data scraped from THOMAS by GovTrack.us to show legislative information - bills, committees, member profiles - in a more useable format. OpenCongress.org offers RSS feeds as an easy and convenient way to follow the latest news and blog mentions relating to a bill, a vote or a member of Congress. The site serves as a rich resource for political bloggers, issue-based membership groups, and individuals."
You can view the bibliographic record for OpenCongress in the University of Colorado Law Library's catalog at: http://128.138.161.92/reco
Finally, a closely related site is the Sunlight Foundation. The Sunlight Foundation was founded in 2006 with the goal of using technology to enable citizens to learn more about what their elected representatives are doing, to help reduce corruption, ensure greater transparency and accountability by government, and foster public trust in the institutions of democracy. The site features include Congressional ethics, political spending, earmarking, and watchdog information; blogs and reports monitoring Congress; grant information; and "Sunlight Seekr," a tool using name or zip code to cross-search multiple web sites to keep tabs on Congress.
You can view the bibliographic record for the Sunlight Foundation in the University of Colorado Law Library's catalog at: http://128.138.161.92/reco
If you have encountered (and especially if you have cataloged) a particularly useful or interesting website that you'd like to share via the Website of the Month message, please pass the suggestion along to me at: Karen.Selden@colorado.edu.
Please address any questions or comments about the MARC records or OPAC displays to: Yumin.Jiang@colorado.edu or Karen.Selden@colorado.edu
Karen
Greetings OBS members,
As a service to OBS members, at least one MARC record for a legal website or electronic resource is distributed on this OBS list each month.
This month three sites that offer free government information are featured. And in honor of St. Patrick's Day, one of the three provides access to Irish public legal information.
Appropriately enough, the first website is titled Free government information. According to the homepage, "Free Government Information (FGI) is a place for initiating dialogue and building consensus among the various players (libraries, government agencies, non-profit organizations, researchers, journalists, etc.) who have a stake in the preservation of and perpetual free access to government information. FGI promotes free government information through collaboration, education, advocacy and research." FGI was founded by and continues to be maintained by a group of librarians who volunteer their time and talent to this cause.
You can view the bibliographic record for Free government information in the University of Colorado Law Library's catalog at: http://128.138.161.92/reco
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The St. Patrick's Day connection is found in the second website for this month: BAILII : British and Irish Legal Information Institute. This site provides access to a comprehensive set of freely available British and Irish primary legal materials, including British and Irish case law and legislation, European Union case law, Law Commission reports, and other law-related British and Irish material.
You can view the bibliographic record for BAILII : British and Irish Legal Information Institute in the University of Colorado Law Library's catalog at: http://128.138.161.92/reco
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The final website for this month is: Office of Public Sector Information. This website provides online access to UK legislation and official publications. It provides guidance on official publishing and crown copyright, information on licensing, the information asset register, and the information trade scheme. The Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) has grown out of Her Majesty's Stationary Office (HMSO).
You can view the bibliographic record for Office of Public Sector Information in the University of Colorado Law Library's catalog at: http://128.138.161.92/reco
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If you have encountered a particularly useful or interesting website that you'd like to share via the Website of the Month message, please pass the suggestion along to me at: Karen.Selden@colorado.edu.
Please address any questions or comments about the MARC records or OPAC displays to: Yumin.Jiang@colorado.edu or Karen.Selden@colorado.edu
Karen
As a service to OBS members, at least one MARC record for a legal website or electronic resource is distributed on this OBS list each month.
This month three sites that offer free government information are featured. And in honor of St. Patrick's Day, one of the three provides access to Irish public legal information.
Appropriately enough, the first website is titled Free government information. According to the homepage, "Free Government Information (FGI) is a place for initiating dialogue and building consensus among the various players (libraries, government agencies, non-profit organizations, researchers, journalists, etc.) who have a stake in the preservation of and perpetual free access to government information. FGI promotes free government information through collaboration, education, advocacy and research." FGI was founded by and continues to be maintained by a group of librarians who volunteer their time and talent to this cause.
You can view the bibliographic record for Free government information in the University of Colorado Law Library's catalog at: http://128.138.161.92/reco
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The St. Patrick's Day connection is found in the second website for this month: BAILII : British and Irish Legal Information Institute. This site provides access to a comprehensive set of freely available British and Irish primary legal materials, including British and Irish case law and legislation, European Union case law, Law Commission reports, and other law-related British and Irish material.
You can view the bibliographic record for BAILII : British and Irish Legal Information Institute in the University of Colorado Law Library's catalog at: http://128.138.161.92/reco
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The final website for this month is: Office of Public Sector Information. This website provides online access to UK legislation and official publications. It provides guidance on official publishing and crown copyright, information on licensing, the information asset register, and the information trade scheme. The Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) has grown out of Her Majesty's Stationary Office (HMSO).
You can view the bibliographic record for Office of Public Sector Information in the University of Colorado Law Library's catalog at: http://128.138.161.92/reco
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If you have encountered a particularly useful or interesting website that you'd like to share via the Website of the Month message, please pass the suggestion along to me at: Karen.Selden@colorado.edu.
Please address any questions or comments about the MARC records or OPAC displays to: Yumin.Jiang@colorado.edu or Karen.Selden@colorado.edu
Karen
Colleagues:
I am pleased to report that we have our slate of candidates for OBS for this year. We need to thank the Nomination Committee (Susan Goldner, Pat Callahan, and Janet Hedin) for all their work, and thank you to these individuals for agreeing to stand for election.
Vice-Chair/Chair-elect:
Kathy Faust—Lewis and Clark
Mila Rush—University of Minnesota
Secretary/Treasurer:
Amy Moberly—California Western
Karen Selden—University of Colorado
Member-at-Large:
Keiko Okuhara—University of Hawaii
Sara Repinski—University of South Carolina
In accordance with our bylaws, additional nominations “may be made upon the written petition of five (5) section members.” The bylaws state that these petitions, with the written consent of the nominee, need to be filed with the Secretary/Treasurer. Please inform our current Secretary/Treasurer (Mary Strouse) if you plan to submit any additional nominations.
Watch for an email detailing voting procedure and links to the candidates information.
--Michael
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Michael Maben
Law Library
Indiana University Maurer School of Law—Bloomington
Bloomington, Indiana 47405
mmaben@indiana.edu
I am pleased to report that we have our slate of candidates for OBS for this year. We need to thank the Nomination Committee (Susan Goldner, Pat Callahan, and Janet Hedin) for all their work, and thank you to these individuals for agreeing to stand for election.
Vice-Chair/Chair-elect:
Kathy Faust—Lewis and Clark
Mila Rush—University of Minnesota
Secretary/Treasurer:
Amy Moberly—California Western
Karen Selden—University of Colorado
Member-at-Large:
Keiko Okuhara—University of Hawaii
Sara Repinski—University of South Carolina
In accordance with our bylaws, additional nominations “may be made upon the written petition of five (5) section members.” The bylaws state that these petitions, with the written consent of the nominee, need to be filed with the Secretary/Treasurer. Please inform our current Secretary/Treasurer (Mary Strouse) if you plan to submit any additional nominations.
Watch for an email detailing voting procedure and links to the candidates information.
--Michael
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Michael Maben
Law Library
Indiana University Maurer School of Law—Bloomington
Bloomington, Indiana 47405
mmaben@indiana.edu
Greetings OBS members,
As a service to OBS members, at least one MARC record for a legal website or electronic resource is distributed on this OBS list each month.
In honor of President's. Day, two sites with ties to past Presidents are featured this month.
Ismael Gullon, the Associate Law Librarian for Collections & Technical Services at Mercer University's Furman Smith Law Library and the former OBS-SIS President who spear-headed the Website of the Month project, suggested this month's first site: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln. According to the homepage, "In 1953, the Abraham Lincoln Association published The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, a multi-volume set of Lincoln's correspondence, speeches, and other writings. Roy P. Basler and his editorial staff, with the continued support of the association, spent five years transcribing and annotating Lincoln's papers. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln represented the first major scholarly effort to collect and publish the complete writings of Abraham Lincoln, and the edition has remained an invaluable resource to Lincoln scholars. Through the efforts of the Abraham Lincoln Association, the edition is now available in electronic form." The site allows visitors to preform simple, boolean and proximity searches, as well as browse titles, browse through lists of all unique words in the text, and review the symbols used to describe sources as cited at the beginning of the first footnote to each item.
The unedited OCLC MARC record for this website is below.
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The second website for this month is The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: The federalist papers. Appropriately, this site provides the electronic text of the Federalist papers, a collection of essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay.
You can view the bibliographic record for The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: The federalist papers in the University of Colorado Law Library's catalog at: http://128.138.161.92/reco
If you have encountered a particularly useful or interesting website that you'd like to share via the Website of the Month message, please pass the suggestion along to me at: Karen.Selden@colorado.edu.
Please address any questions or comments about the MARC records or OPAC displays to: Yumin.Jiang@colorado.edu or Karen.Selden@colorado.edu
Karen
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with the continued
support of the association, spent
five years transcribing
and annotating Lincoln's papers
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--To unsubscribe from 'obs-sis'--->unsubscribe
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Karen Selden, Catalog Librarian
University of Colorado Law School
William A. Wise Law Library
Wolf Law Building
402 UCB
2450 Kittredge Loop Drive
Boulder, CO 80309-0402
(303) 492-7535 (voice) (303) 492-2707
(fax)
Karen.Selden@Colorado.EDU
As a service to OBS members, at least one MARC record for a legal website or electronic resource is distributed on this OBS list each month.
In honor of President's. Day, two sites with ties to past Presidents are featured this month.
Ismael Gullon, the Associate Law Librarian for Collections & Technical Services at Mercer University's Furman Smith Law Library and the former OBS-SIS President who spear-headed the Website of the Month project, suggested this month's first site: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln. According to the homepage, "In 1953, the Abraham Lincoln Association published The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, a multi-volume set of Lincoln's correspondence, speeches, and other writings. Roy P. Basler and his editorial staff, with the continued support of the association, spent five years transcribing and annotating Lincoln's papers. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln represented the first major scholarly effort to collect and publish the complete writings of Abraham Lincoln, and the edition has remained an invaluable resource to Lincoln scholars. Through the efforts of the Abraham Lincoln Association, the edition is now available in electronic form." The site allows visitors to preform simple, boolean and proximity searches, as well as browse titles, browse through lists of all unique words in the text, and review the symbols used to describe sources as cited at the beginning of the first footnote to each item.
The unedited OCLC MARC record for this website is below.
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The second website for this month is The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: The federalist papers. Appropriately, this site provides the electronic text of the Federalist papers, a collection of essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay.
You can view the bibliographic record for The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: The federalist papers in the University of Colorado Law Library's catalog at: http://128.138.161.92/reco
If you have encountered a particularly useful or interesting website that you'd like to share via the Website of the Month message, please pass the suggestion along to me at: Karen.Selden@colorado.edu.
Please address any questions or comments about the MARC records or OPAC displays to: Yumin.Jiang@colorado.edu or Karen.Selden@colorado.edu
Karen
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Abraham Lincoln Association
256 Electronic database
260 Springfield, Ill. :|bAbraham Lincoln Association
500 Title from title screen (viewed Apr. 29, 2003)
516 Text (SGML/HTML/Searchable), image (JPG)
520 Presents a 9-volume set of Lincoln's
correspondence,
speeches, and other writings in a
searchable database. Roy
P. Basler and his editorial staff,
with the continued
support of the association, spent
five years transcribing
and annotating Lincoln's papers
534 |pTranscribed from:|cNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers
University Press, 1953-1955.|e9 v. :
ports., facisms. ; 24
cm.|nIncludes bibliographical
references and index (v.9)
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--To unsubscribe from 'obs-sis'--->unsubscribe
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Karen Selden, Catalog Librarian
University of Colorado Law School
William A. Wise Law Library
Wolf Law Building
402 UCB
2450 Kittredge Loop Drive
Boulder, CO 80309-0402
(303) 492-7535 (voice) (303) 492-2707
(fax)
Karen.Selden@Colorado.EDU
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:44 PM
Colleagues,
I have added a brief summary of each proposal and discussion paper presented at the American Library Association Midwinter MARBI Meetings, which took place January 24-25, 2009. A more detailed analysis of the papers will be available in my 2008/2009 Annual report, which will appear on the TSIS Website shortly before the AALL 2009 Annual Meeting, and later in TSLL.
Several proposals and discussion papers relate to RDA. These include: Proposals No. 2009-01/1, 2009-01/2, and 2009-01/3, and Discussion papers 2009-DP01/1 and 2009-DP-01/2. Also noteworthy is DP No. 2009-DP02, Definition of field 588 for metadata control note in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format.
George
George Prager
Head of Cataloging
New York University Law School Library
voice: 212-998-6340
fax: 212-998-6587
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Proposal No. 2009-01/1: New data elements in the MARC 21 Authority Format
http://www.loc.gov/marc/ma
New data elements will be needed in the MARC 21 Authority format to accommodate Resource Description and Access (RDA). All the new fields have been approved for addition to the format. These include fields: 046 (Special coded dates), 621 (Associated place), 622 (Address), 623 (Field of activity), 624 (Affiliation), 625 (Occupation), 626 (Gender), 627 (Family information), and 628 (Associated language). The proposal has been amended to replace $d "Dates" in the 62x fields with $o (Start date) and $p (End date), to provide more controlled searching. Also, at the meeting it was decided to add 2 more subfields to most of the new 62X fields: subfield $u for URI, and another subfield (value as yet undetermined), for source of the information.
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Proposal No. 2009-01/2: New content designation for RDA elements: Content type, Media Type, Carrier Type in the MARC 21 Formats http://www.loc.gov/marc/ma
Three new fields have been approved: Field 336 (Content type), 337 (Media type), and 338 (Carrier type). These fields are intended to replace the General material designation (GMD), defined in AACR2, and used in Bibliographic field 245. "Content type" will be used in the MARC 21 Authority and Bibliographic formats; "Media type" and "Carrier type" will be used only in the Bibliographic format. Also, new values for "Carrier type" were proposed and have been approved for addition to the Bibliographic 007 field; no new values were deemed necessary for Content or Media type.
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Proposal No. 2009-01/3: Identifying work, expression and manifestation records in the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority Formats http://www.loc.gov/marc/ma
Field "883": "Entity type" was proposed to identify FRBR type 1 entitles: Work, expression, manifestation, and item. This proposal was rejected by the MARBI Committee. A major problem is that clean mapping of FRBR levels is difficult in our current bibliographic records, most of which contain manifestation information (such as publication information) and work information (such as subject headings), and sometimes expression level information as well (such as many uniform titles).
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Proposal No. 2009-02: Definition of new codes for legal deposits in 008/07 (Method of Acquisition) in the MARC 21 Holdings Format http://www.loc.gov/marc/ma
The Biblioteca Nacional de Espana has proposed new codes for legal deposit. Status: Approved as amended: Code "d" will be renamed as "Deposit (Unspecified)", and the definition will be revised. Code "l" (the letter) will be added for "Legal deposit"; Proposed Code "v" for "Depository program" will be deleted.
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Proposal No. 2009-03: Definition of field 080 in the MARC 21 Authority Format http://www.loc.gov/marc/ma
The Authority Format has separate fields for many other classification scheme numbers, all of which are also valid in the Bibliographic Format. The Biblioteca Nacional de Espana has proposed the addition of field 080, for a Universal Decimal Classification number, to be used for name, series, and subject records. This field already is used in the Bibliographic Format. Status: Approved.
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Proposal No. 2009-04: Addition of Codes for Map Projections in 008/22-23
(Maps) in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format http://www.loc.gov/marc/ma
Status: The National Library of the Czech Republic has proposed two new codes for map projections. Status: Approved.
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Proposal No. 2009-05: Adding subfield $u for Uniform Resource Identifier to field 510 (Citation/References note) of the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format http://www.loc.gov/marc/ma
Status: Approved. A recommendation will be added that the URI follow immediately after the citation. Although this proposal originated from the Bibliographic Standards Committee, ALA/ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, the usage will not be restricted to rare books and mansucripts, so examples will be added for citations to other types of material.
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Discussion Paper No. 2009-DP01/1: Encoding URIs for controlled values in MARC records http://www.loc.gov/marc/ma
Currently, LC's Network Development and MARC Standards Office is working on a registry for controlled lists (such as the MARC Code List for Languages), and establishing URIs both for the list itself and for each value on the list. This paper proposes subfield "l" (the number "1"), for coding URIs in place of or in addition to using terms from a controlled vocabulary. This DP will be brought back as a proposal.
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Discussion Paper No. 2009-DP01/2: Relationship Designators for RDA Appendix J and K http://www.loc.gov/marc/ma
Appendix J lists possible relationships between the Group 1 FRBR entities: Works, expressions, manifestations, and items. Appendix K lists the possible relationships between the Group 2 FRBR entities: Persons, families, and corporate bodies. This Discussion paper recommends that subfields $e, $4, and $u be added for use in linking entry fields of the bibliographic format. It also recommends that subfields $4 and $e be added to 5XX fields in the authority format wherever they are not yet authorized. This paper will be brought back as a proposal.
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Discussion Paper No. 2009-DP02: Definition of field 588 for metadata control note in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format http://www.loc.gov/marc/ma
At the MARBI meeting, it was suggested that this field be modeled upon a similar field in UNIMARC, field 830, named "General Cataloguer's Note". It was also suggested that the field be renamed, narrowed in scope, and made more structured, with possibly a value added to allow suppression of the field upon a case by case basis. First indicators are being proposed for "blank": " Free text"; "0" Source of title; "1" "Description based on", and "2" "Latest issue consulted". Using these indicators for common messages of this type will minimize keying, lessen spelling errors, and provide useful information in a language neutral manner. Further feedback wil be sought from the MARC list. This paper will be brought back as a proposal.
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Discussion Paper No. 2009-DP03: Changing field 257 (Country of producing entity for archival films) of the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format to include non-archival materials http://www.loc.gov/marc/ma
LC's current policy is that geographic subdivisions are not allowed after film genre headings (Field 655), unless the source of the term is coded in $2 as "local". As an alternative, Field 257 has been proposed, in order to bring out what country or countries a film has been produced in. This DP will be brought back as a proposal.
Colleagues,
I have added a brief summary of each proposal and discussion paper presented at the American Library Association Midwinter MARBI Meetings, which took place January 24-25, 2009. A more detailed analysis of the papers will be available in my 2008/2009 Annual report, which will appear on the TSIS Website shortly before the AALL 2009 Annual Meeting, and later in TSLL.
Several proposals and discussion papers relate to RDA. These include: Proposals No. 2009-01/1, 2009-01/2, and 2009-01/3, and Discussion papers 2009-DP01/1 and 2009-DP-01/2. Also noteworthy is DP No. 2009-DP02, Definition of field 588 for metadata control note in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format.
George
George Prager
Head of Cataloging
New York University Law School Library
voice: 212-998-6340
fax: 212-998-6587
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Proposal No. 2009-01/1: New data elements in the MARC 21 Authority Format
http://www.loc.gov/marc/ma
New data elements will be needed in the MARC 21 Authority format to accommodate Resource Description and Access (RDA). All the new fields have been approved for addition to the format. These include fields: 046 (Special coded dates), 621 (Associated place), 622 (Address), 623 (Field of activity), 624 (Affiliation), 625 (Occupation), 626 (Gender), 627 (Family information), and 628 (Associated language). The proposal has been amended to replace $d "Dates" in the 62x fields with $o (Start date) and $p (End date), to provide more controlled searching. Also, at the meeting it was decided to add 2 more subfields to most of the new 62X fields: subfield $u for URI, and another subfield (value as yet undetermined), for source of the information.
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Proposal No. 2009-01/2: New content designation for RDA elements: Content type, Media Type, Carrier Type in the MARC 21 Formats http://www.loc.gov/marc/ma
Three new fields have been approved: Field 336 (Content type), 337 (Media type), and 338 (Carrier type). These fields are intended to replace the General material designation (GMD), defined in AACR2, and used in Bibliographic field 245. "Content type" will be used in the MARC 21 Authority and Bibliographic formats; "Media type" and "Carrier type" will be used only in the Bibliographic format. Also, new values for "Carrier type" were proposed and have been approved for addition to the Bibliographic 007 field; no new values were deemed necessary for Content or Media type.
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Proposal No. 2009-01/3: Identifying work, expression and manifestation records in the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority Formats http://www.loc.gov/marc/ma
Field "883": "Entity type" was proposed to identify FRBR type 1 entitles: Work, expression, manifestation, and item. This proposal was rejected by the MARBI Committee. A major problem is that clean mapping of FRBR levels is difficult in our current bibliographic records, most of which contain manifestation information (such as publication information) and work information (such as subject headings), and sometimes expression level information as well (such as many uniform titles).
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Proposal No. 2009-02: Definition of new codes for legal deposits in 008/07 (Method of Acquisition) in the MARC 21 Holdings Format http://www.loc.gov/marc/ma
The Biblioteca Nacional de Espana has proposed new codes for legal deposit. Status: Approved as amended: Code "d" will be renamed as "Deposit (Unspecified)", and the definition will be revised. Code "l" (the letter) will be added for "Legal deposit"; Proposed Code "v" for "Depository program" will be deleted.
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Proposal No. 2009-03: Definition of field 080 in the MARC 21 Authority Format http://www.loc.gov/marc/ma
The Authority Format has separate fields for many other classification scheme numbers, all of which are also valid in the Bibliographic Format. The Biblioteca Nacional de Espana has proposed the addition of field 080, for a Universal Decimal Classification number, to be used for name, series, and subject records. This field already is used in the Bibliographic Format. Status: Approved.
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Proposal No. 2009-04: Addition of Codes for Map Projections in 008/22-23
(Maps) in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format http://www.loc.gov/marc/ma
Status: The National Library of the Czech Republic has proposed two new codes for map projections. Status: Approved.
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Proposal No. 2009-05: Adding subfield $u for Uniform Resource Identifier to field 510 (Citation/References note) of the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format http://www.loc.gov/marc/ma
Status: Approved. A recommendation will be added that the URI follow immediately after the citation. Although this proposal originated from the Bibliographic Standards Committee, ALA/ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, the usage will not be restricted to rare books and mansucripts, so examples will be added for citations to other types of material.
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Discussion Paper No. 2009-DP01/1: Encoding URIs for controlled values in MARC records http://www.loc.gov/marc/ma
Currently, LC's Network Development and MARC Standards Office is working on a registry for controlled lists (such as the MARC Code List for Languages), and establishing URIs both for the list itself and for each value on the list. This paper proposes subfield "l" (the number "1"), for coding URIs in place of or in addition to using terms from a controlled vocabulary. This DP will be brought back as a proposal.
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Discussion Paper No. 2009-DP01/2: Relationship Designators for RDA Appendix J and K http://www.loc.gov/marc/ma
Appendix J lists possible relationships between the Group 1 FRBR entities: Works, expressions, manifestations, and items. Appendix K lists the possible relationships between the Group 2 FRBR entities: Persons, families, and corporate bodies. This Discussion paper recommends that subfields $e, $4, and $u be added for use in linking entry fields of the bibliographic format. It also recommends that subfields $4 and $e be added to 5XX fields in the authority format wherever they are not yet authorized. This paper will be brought back as a proposal.
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Discussion Paper No. 2009-DP02: Definition of field 588 for metadata control note in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format http://www.loc.gov/marc/ma
At the MARBI meeting, it was suggested that this field be modeled upon a similar field in UNIMARC, field 830, named "General Cataloguer's Note". It was also suggested that the field be renamed, narrowed in scope, and made more structured, with possibly a value added to allow suppression of the field upon a case by case basis. First indicators are being proposed for "blank": " Free text"; "0" Source of title; "1" "Description based on", and "2" "Latest issue consulted". Using these indicators for common messages of this type will minimize keying, lessen spelling errors, and provide useful information in a language neutral manner. Further feedback wil be sought from the MARC list. This paper will be brought back as a proposal.
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Discussion Paper No. 2009-DP03: Changing field 257 (Country of producing entity for archival films) of the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format to include non-archival materials http://www.loc.gov/marc/ma
LC's current policy is that geographic subdivisions are not allowed after film genre headings (Field 655), unless the source of the term is coded in $2 as "local". As an alternative, Field 257 has been proposed, in order to bring out what country or countries a film has been produced in. This DP will be brought back as a proposal.
Greetings OBS members,
As a service to OBS members, at least one MARC record for a legal website or electronic resource is distributed on this OBS list each month.
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, civil rights sites are featured this month.
Appropriately, the first site is the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights. This site features the work of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR). Based in Washington, D.C., the USCCR is an independent, bipartisan, fact-finding agency of the Executive Branch that examines and endeavors to resolve discrimination issues related to race, ethnicity, religion and, more recently, sexual orientation.. This site includes the full-text of commission reports, some state advisory commission reports, and other publications
You can view the bibliographic record for U. S. Commission on Civil Rights in the University of Colorado Law Library's catalog at: http://128.138.161.92/reco
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More information from the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights is available on the Historical publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights site. This project is a partnership of the United States Government Printing Office, the United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Thurgood Marshall Law Library. The documents on this site are searchable by title, date, subject, and SUDOC number.
You can view the bibliographic record for Historical publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights in the University of Colorado Law Library's catalog at: http://128.138.161.92/reco
If you have encountered a particularly useful or interesting website that you'd like to share via the Website of the Month message, please pass the suggestion along to me at: Karen.Selden@colorado.edu.
I can't guarantee it will become a website of the month selection, but it certainly helps to have a variety of websites to choose from, especially any sites that are "tried and true" by our law librarian colleagues.
Please address any questions or comments about the MARC records or OPAC displays to: Yumin.Jiang@colorado.edu or Karen.Selden@colorado.edu
Happy 2009! ~ Karen
As a service to OBS members, at least one MARC record for a legal website or electronic resource is distributed on this OBS list each month.
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, civil rights sites are featured this month.
Appropriately, the first site is the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights. This site features the work of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR). Based in Washington, D.C., the USCCR is an independent, bipartisan, fact-finding agency of the Executive Branch that examines and endeavors to resolve discrimination issues related to race, ethnicity, religion and, more recently, sexual orientation.. This site includes the full-text of commission reports, some state advisory commission reports, and other publications
You can view the bibliographic record for U. S. Commission on Civil Rights in the University of Colorado Law Library's catalog at: http://128.138.161.92/reco
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More information from the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights is available on the Historical publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights site. This project is a partnership of the United States Government Printing Office, the United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Thurgood Marshall Law Library. The documents on this site are searchable by title, date, subject, and SUDOC number.
You can view the bibliographic record for Historical publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights in the University of Colorado Law Library's catalog at: http://128.138.161.92/reco
If you have encountered a particularly useful or interesting website that you'd like to share via the Website of the Month message, please pass the suggestion along to me at: Karen.Selden@colorado.edu.
I can't guarantee it will become a website of the month selection, but it certainly helps to have a variety of websites to choose from, especially any sites that are "tried and true" by our law librarian colleagues.
Please address any questions or comments about the MARC records or OPAC displays to: Yumin.Jiang@colorado.edu or Karen.Selden@colorado.edu
Happy 2009! ~ Karen
The Annual Meeting Program Committee (AMPC) met last month to consider the proposals submitted for consideration in Washington, DC. There were over 180 proposals for 66 slots. The following OBS SIS proposals were accepted for presentation.
MarcEdit: A Magic Wand For MARC Records
B-6: Sunday, July 26, 2009 3:00 PM 60 Minutes
Latest Trends in Library Automation: Building Creative and Inspiring Discovery Platforms
C-3: Sunday, July 26, 2009 4:15 PM 60 Minutes
Taking the Aggravation Out of Aggregators: An Update on Aggregator-Neutral Bibliographic Records
F-6: Monday, July 27, 2009 10:45 AM 60 Minutes
MarcEdit: A Magic Wand For MARC Records
B-6: Sunday, July 26, 2009 3:00 PM 60 Minutes
Latest Trends in Library Automation: Building Creative and Inspiring Discovery Platforms
C-3: Sunday, July 26, 2009 4:15 PM 60 Minutes
Taking the Aggravation Out of Aggregators: An Update on Aggregator-Neutral Bibliographic Records
F-6: Monday, July 27, 2009 10:45 AM 60 Minutes
A legal community is developing in virtual world Second Life
<http://secondlife.com/> . Discover the innovative implications of such
virtual worlds for the library services profession through the
concluding session of Law Librarians in Virtual Worlds
<http://vwlawlibrarians.wet
participants in this free, self-paced AALL/BNA-sponsored online workshop
have explored the opportunities and challenges inherent in using Second
Life to build a virtual presence for their libraries.
To be held August 27, the final seminar of the series will report on
participants' projects, usage statistics, and lessons learned, and
present conclusions about the usefulness of Second Life to law
librarians. Speakers will include coordinator Kate Fitz, public services
librarian at Sacramento County Public Law Library, and other interested
workshop participants. Register today
<https://aall.webex.com/aal
benefits of participants' findings.
Michael Maben
Indiana University Law Library
Bloomington, Indiana 47405
mmaben@indiana.edu
<http://secondlife.com/> . Discover the innovative implications of such
virtual worlds for the library services profession through the
concluding session of Law Librarians in Virtual Worlds
<http://vwlawlibrarians.wet
participants in this free, self-paced AALL/BNA-sponsored online workshop
have explored the opportunities and challenges inherent in using Second
Life to build a virtual presence for their libraries.
To be held August 27, the final seminar of the series will report on
participants' projects, usage statistics, and lessons learned, and
present conclusions about the usefulness of Second Life to law
librarians. Speakers will include coordinator Kate Fitz, public services
librarian at Sacramento County Public Law Library, and other interested
workshop participants. Register today
<https://aall.webex.com/aal
benefits of participants' findings.
Michael Maben
Indiana University Law Library
Bloomington, Indiana 47405
mmaben@indiana.edu