News from the Rio de Janeiro Office
New Services Added to Cooperative Acquisitions
Program
The Rio Office is now offering--on an experimental
basis--limited desk space and the use of a car and
driver for bibliographers from Cooperative Acquisitions
Program participant libraries. Only officially
designated representatives of participating libraries
are eligible. These services must be requested at
least one month prior to the date when they will be needed.
Desk space is for one week only. Use of the
car and driver for acquisitions work within the city
limits of Rio
is limited to a maximum of two working
days and is at the discretion of the Field Director.
Congressional Research Analyst Visits Brazil
Larry Storrs, specialist in Latin American Affairs for
the Congressional Research Service, visited Brazil from
July 30 through August 7 to update an annual
Congressional report on Brazilian economics and
politics. His trip took him to São Paulo, Rio de
Janeiro, and Brasilia where he met with representatives
from the commercial, economic, and political sectors,
in addition to Brazilian and American government
officials.
On your MARC, get set, go!
MARC has finally arrived in Brazil! To encourage
further adoption of MARC standards, the Rio Office
co-sponsored MARC training seminars with the United
States Information Agency (USIA) and the Brazilian
National Library, August 24-26. The seminars,
conducted in Portuguese, were for Brazilian
catalogers responsible for cataloging materials using
MARC-compatible systems.
Two sessions were held in Rio--one for National
Library catalogers only, and another for catalogers
from other Rio and São Paulo state institutions.
Additional sessions were held in Brasilia. Carla
Dewey of the MINITEX Regional Library Network in
Minnesota was selected by USIA to conduct the
seminars.
NACO Training at the University of São Paulo
The University of São Paulo (USP) was selected to
be the first site in Brazil to receive training for the
LC-coordinated NACO project for name and serials
authorities. Stuart Stone of LC's History and
Literature Cataloging Division trained USP
cataloging librarians from September 14-18.
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Comments: Rio de Janeiro Office
(02/27/03)
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