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DATE: 01/25/2009

GROUP: Authority Control Interest Group

CHAIR: Mary Mastraccio

REPORTER: Mary Mastraccio

EMAIL: marym@marcive.com

CONFERENCE: Midwinter Meeting

MEETING: Program

PROGRAM TITLE: Current Developments

ATTENDEES: 80

CURRENT ACTIVITIES:

Authority Control Interest Group Midwinter Update Meeting

At the Midwinter ACIG reporting session, six speakers described cataloging developments that impact authority control. An opportunity for questions was provided after each presentation. Presentations are available at the ALA presentations website as well as the LITA midwinter09 wiki.

The RDA/MARC Working Group was represented by John Espley, (VTLS). He covered MARBI proposals submitted by the group to get MARC ready for RDA data.

An excellent presentation on changing the MARC authority format was given by Jimmie Lundgren (Science & Social Science Cataloging Unit Head Cataloging & Metadata Dept., Smathers Library, University of Florida). The presentation provided steps needed for others with ideas for changing the MARC authority format.

Bill Leonard (Information Standards Specialist) focused on the Library and Archives Canada cataloging services available through AMICUS and features of Canadian authority records.

Young (Policy and Standards Division) provided details on developments at the Library of Congress on issues related to name and subject authority records as well as RDA.

Philip Young (Catalog Librarian, VA Tech) covered the purpose, past activities, and future plans of the SAC-Form/Genre Implementation Subcommittee. Participants were encouraged to subscribe to the Form/Genre Discussion List [form-genre@ala.org] to help formulate future policies and practices.

The OCLC update with statistics of current or recent projects supplied by Robert Bremer was made available online. Renee Register gave an overview of the OCLC Next Generation Catalog.

A business meeting at the end discussed future conferences, up-coming elections and the need to have a greater web presence for the group.

FUTURE ACTIVITIES:

ALA Annual 2009 will be The Future is Now: Global Authority Control.