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Issues & Advocacy

ALCTS is working on these areas.

ALCTS 7 Measures Survey

• Summary of Survey Results (pdf)
• What might ALCTS do to excel at aligning our products and services with our mission?
  Comments on question
• What might ALCTS do to excel at organizational adaptability?
  Comments on question
• What might ALCTS do to improve organizational communication?

Digital Preservation

• Definition of Digital Preservation  | .pdf version

Non-English Access

• Task Force Report, Revised March 16, 2007 (.pdf) 47 pages
• Task Force Report: Comments Received and Their Disposition (.pdf) 30 pages
• Executive Summary (.pdf) 2 pages
• Non-English Access discussion list homepage
• Recommendations (.pdf) 3 pages
• Full Report, September 18, 2006 (.pdf) 70 pages
• Announcement Press Release

Bibliographic Control Issues: The Future of Cataloging

LC Working Group Report

• On the Record: Report of the LC Working Group, final report, Jan. 2008 (.pdf) 49 pages
• ALCTS Recommendations for Action, On the Record: Report of the LC Working Group (.html) | (.pdf) 16 pages
• Ten Actions for ALCTS to respond to the LC working group report (.html) | (.pdf) 3 pages

• LC Working Group Report on the Future of Bibliographic Control—draft, Nov. 2007 (.pdf) 41 pages
• Memo accompanying the LC Working Group Report (.pdf) 3 pages
• ALCTS Comments on “Report on the Future of Bibliographic Control: Draft for Public Comment, Nov. 30, 2007”
• Written Testimony for the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control Second Public Meeting: Standards and Structures (.pdf) 4 pages

Series Authority

• LC's series decision implementation Beacher Wiggins post to "Big Heads" discussion list, May 2006
• The Library of Congress decision to cease series authority work ARLIS, May 2006
• FAQ "Big Heads," May 2006
• ALCTS Issues Statement on LC’s Series Authority Record Decision press release, May 2006
• D. Marcum letter 05/27/06
• Letter SLA and AALL to LC, May 2006 (.pdf) 2 pages
• Letter ARL to D. Marcum, May 2006
• PCC Statement on LC Series Authority Record Change, Mark Watson, May 2006
• ALA Executive Board Statement: Bibliographic/Cataloging Services at LC, May 2006
• Resolution on the Library of Congress Management's Decision to Cease the Production of Series Authority Records (.pdf), adopted by the Library of Congress Professional Guild (AFSCME Local 2910) Executive Board, May 2006 (.pdf) 2 pages
• Letter regarding series authority records D. Marcum, May 2006

Issues

• Basic Values and the Future of Cataloging
  presentations from an ALCTS/CCS Forum, Jan. 2007 at ALA Midwinter in Seattle
• ALCTS and the Future of Bibliographic Control: Challenges, Actions, and Values (The "Next Report") October 2006 (.pdf) 9 pages
• ALA's Testimony Regarding the Library of Congress Oversight Hearing Lynne E. Bradley, July 2006
• International Dimensions of Digital Science and Scholarship, D. Marcum, May 2006; address to the American Association of Research Libraries
• The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools, draft 2B, Karen Calhoun, March 2006 (.pdf) 51 pages
• A White Paper on the Future of Cataloging at Indiana University, Jackie Byrd et al., January 2006 (.pdf) 31 pages
• Rethinking How We Provide Bibliographic Services for the University of California, Bibliographic Services Task Force, December 2005 (.pdf) 80 pages
• The Future of Cataloging: Address to the Ebsco Leadership Seminar, Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian of Congress, January 2005; Boston, MA

CC:DA & RDA

• Comment on the draft of RDA. Check back soon for a new request for comments.
• Announcements and Reports on CC:DA site

Reports

• Final Report: Subject Semantic Interoperability (.pdf) 113 pages

ALCTS and the Profession: Next Steps

• Next Steps: overview (.pdf) 6 pages
• The “Next Report”
  ALCTS and the Future of Bibliographic Control: Challenges, Actions and Values (.pdf) 9 pages
• ALCTS STRATEGIC PLAN 2006–2011

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