1. LC Update to the Authority Control Interest Group
2012 ALA Annual Conference
Janis L. Young
Policy and Standards Division Library of Congress

2. Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative
LC has contracted with Zepheira
Zepheira team led by Eric Miller will provide
A model (or models) to serve as starting points for discussion
An analysis of related initiatives underway that will be useful to this effort

3. Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative
LC will enable community participation
International users and partners
Various types of information agencies and libraries
Library suppliers
Information will be posted at

4. Romanization Tables
Tables posted on the ALA-LC Romanization Tables website
New tables
Moroccan Tamazight
Shan
Syriac
Revisions to existing tables
Bulgarian
Khmer
Russian

5. Romanization Tables Tables currently under constituent review
New tables
Cherokee
Manchu
Revisions to existing tables
Arabic
Japanese
Belarusian

6. Romanization Tables Tables that will be posted for constituent review
Kazakh in Arabic script (new)
Lepcha (revision)

7. Taiwanese Place Names
Name and subject headings for geographic places in Taiwan should now be established using the Pinyin romanization scheme
Including all jurisdictions, quasi-jurisdictions, and features
Subject Headings Manual H 690 will be revised
LC staff will examine the existing headings and update them as necessary

8. LCC in Authorities & Vocabularies
Four LC classification schedules have been added as a beta test
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion
M Music and books on music
N Fine arts
Z Bibliography. Library science. Information resources (General)
Schedules may be searched by caption
Bulk download of the schedules is not available

9. LC Classification: KIA-KIK
Law of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: North America (KIA-KIK)
Draft available on LC’s web site at
Comment period closed May 20, 2012
Questions: Jolande Goldberg,

10. LCSH: Orphan Headings
Investigating the possibility of adding BTs to categories of orphan headings
To more closely align with ANSI/NISO Z
To enhance the usefulness of LCSH on the Semantic Web

11. 072 Fields in Subject Authorities
Experiment to add subject category codes (MARC 21 field 072) to subject authorities
To enhance usability of LCSH on the Semantic Web
Requires automatic heading generation
To allow systems to suggest appropriate subdivisions to catalogers
To improve automatic validation of heading strings

12. 072 Fields in Subject Authorities
072 field will contain Subject Headings Manual instruction sheet numbers for free-floating and pattern lists of subdivisions
Will indicate into which list(s) a heading falls
Will correlate to the 073 fields (subdivision usage), already present in subdivision records

13. 072 Fields in Subject Authorities
Subdivision
073 ## $a H 1150 $z lcsh
180 ## $x Patients
680 ## $i Use as a topical subdivision under individual diseases and types of diseases.
Heading
072 #7 $a H 1150 $2 lcsh
150 ## $a Autoimmune diseases
Generated heading string
650 #0 $a Autoimmune diseases $x Patients.

14. 072 Fields in Subject Authorities
Experiment parameters
PSD subject policy specialists will add 072 fields as time permits
Proposals that appear on Tentative Monthly Lists and headings that are directly encountered during vetting of the Lists will be eligible
Straightforward instruction sheets will be included
Only subject authority records may include 072 fields; 072 fields may not be added to name authorities at this time

15. 072 Fields in Subject Authorities
Will allow programmers to experiment with using the data to create linkages
Success or failure will help inform PSD’s decision on whether to continue
If successful
The project will likely be broadened to include other stakeholders
Problematic instruction sheets will be addressed

16. Genre/Form Terms Cartography project Proposal
Broaden meaning of Globes and assign it to all globes
Cancel Lunar globes
Post-coordinate with the subject heading for the body represented

17. Genre/Form Terms Cartography project Assignment of headings
Title: [Globe of Ganymede].
651 #0 $a Ganymede (Satellite) $v Globes.
655 #7 $a Globes. $2 lcgft
Title: [Globe of the Earth].
651 #0 $a Earth $v Globes.

18. Genre/Form Terms Cartography project
Discussion paper: Proposed Treatment of Globes in the LCGFT Environment
Comments accepted through July 31, 2012

19. Genre/Form Terms Music genre/form project
Collaboration between the Music Library Association (MLA) and LC
Have agreed to over 600 terms to date

20. Genre/Form Terms Music medium of performance project
Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus for Music (LCMPT)
Collaboration between LC and MLA
MARC coding
Bibliographic records: tag 382
Authority records
MARBI DP02: Authority records for music medium of performance terms

21. Genre/Form Terms Literature project
Undertaken in cooperation with the ALCTS/SAC Subcommittee on Genre/Form Implementation (SGFI)
Working Group on LCGFT Literature Terms
PSD provided a seed list of approximately 550 LCSH form headings

22. Genre/Form Terms Literature project Working Group’s tasks
Evaluate the terms provided by PSD
Identify additional terminology
Suggest the form of the authorized term and references in a report to PSD

23. Genre/Form Terms General terms project
Undertaken in cooperation with SGFI
Potential genre/form terms
Dictionaries Guidebooks
Encyclopedias Handbooks

24. Genre/Form Terms MARBI discussion papers
Inclusion of additional aspects in MARC bibliographic and authority records
DP03: Chronological aspects
DP04: Audience characteristics
DP05: Creator/contributor groups

25. Questions?