BIBCO-At-Large Meeting Summary
ALA Midwinter Conference
LOEWS Regency
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
January 26, 2003
Acting Cooperative Cataloging Team Leader and Acting BIBCO Coordinator
Ana Cristán opened the BIBCO-At-Large meeting at the ALA Midwinter
Conference in Philadelphia by welcoming the audience with a review of
recent activities. The approval by the PCC Policy Committee of numerical
goals for the NACO program may have an impact on BIBCO membership. The
Policy Committee has tasked the Secretariat with conducting a cost-benefit
study of the program to see if similar production standards may be needed
for BIBCO. A second working group of particular relevance is one on documentation,
the charge for which is now being formulated by the Standing Committee
on Training. A pre-conference example of the PCC's work on cataloger
training was seen in the presentation of a Training the Integrating Resources
Trainer workshop on Friday, January 24th, 2003. A similar workshop will
also be held in Seattle later in the year.
Judy Kuhagen, Senior Policy Specialist in the Cataloging Policy and
Support Office of the Library of Congress, occupied the remainder of
the meeting with a discussion of the impact on BIBCO cataloging of the
2003 AACR2 revisions. Many of the revisions will directly affect the
daily work of monographic catalogers.
In Chapter 3 (Cartographic materials) language has been added to cover
electronic resources. In Chapter 9 (Electronic resources) language relevant
to integrating resources has been moved to Chapter 12. Some rules in
Chapter 1 (General Rules for Description) and Chapter 21 have been revised.
Some existing MARC 21 fields, formerly used only in serial bibliographic
records, will now be used in records for integrating resources. There
are also MARC 21 changes: new codes in Continuing Resources 006/008 and
the new Leader Bibliographic Level code "i".
Chapter 12 (newly named Continuing Resources) was revised to include
rules for integrating resources. A definition for integrating
resource was added to the glossary: "A bibliographic resource
that is added to or changed by means of updates that do not remain discrete
and are integrated into the whole. Integrating resources can be finite
or continuing ..." Those familiar with Adele Hallam's Cataloging
rules for the description of looseleaf publications will be familiar
with the new rules in chapter 12. The provisions in this standard U.S.
manual has been generalized to apply to all integrating resources with
few changes, generally to allow for greater cataloger judgement.
Reciprocal linking notes (MARC 21 fields 760-787) will be given in
all bibliographic records involving an integrating resource and the other
bibliographic resources with which it has a relationship. Prior to the
2002 Revision, notes and related work added entries were given only on
the record for the new resource.
Another change that most monographic catalogers will find in the new
rules is in the transcription of the series statement in the analytic
record. The effect of some Chapter 12 and Chapter 1 revisions changes
transcription practice in regard to "introductory words", typographic
errors, and the preference for the full form of series name over an acronym/initialism
of the series title. In series tracings, the differences between what
is recorded on the bibliographic record and what was transcribed prior
to the 2002 revisions will be dealt with through cross references on
the series authority record, and not as a 490/830 combination. (Cf. slide
35 of the Kuhagen presentation).
Further notes on these issues included implementation practice: the
usual policy of not changing something that was right when it was first
done. Series authority records created before December 1st, 2002 will
not be deleted or merged into other records. Kuhagen also spent some
time discussing the concept of major vs. minor title changes (rule 21.2A)
and the impact on the series authority record.
Ana Cristán concluded the meeting with some notes on topics
for the ALA annual conference to be held in Toronto, Canada this year.
The meeting will have an update on integrating resources to assure that
BIBCO catalogers are comfortable with the AACR2 revisions and their impact
on monographic cataloging and especially on series titles as well as
an update on other changes that are expected to be in place with regard
to implementation of code "i". The meeting will also feature a report
from member Robert Ellett on the survey he is conducting on the use of
BIBCO records.
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