Library of Congress Report

toCommittee on Technical

Processing CEAL

Young Ki Lee

Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division

Library of Congress

Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division2007 Statistics

Received : 53,979 items Completed : 61,707 items Copy cataloging : 15,376 items Minimum level cataloging : 5,202 items Collection level cataloging : 52 items

Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division2007 Statistics

New Name Authorities: 12,061 New Series Authorities: 110 Modified Authorities: 4,406 New Subject Authorities: 466 Class Numbers Established: 521 Bibliographic Records Changed: 7,107

Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division2007 Statistics

Staff : 73 Working Backlog: 37,132 titles Production of regular work : 0.58 t/h

Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division2007 Highlights

Combining Cataloging and Acquisitions (Pilot Project): Effective Nov. 26, 2007, all 18 African/Asian Acquisition staff members reassigned to RCCD

SRD staff reassigned to RCCD: several serials catalogers reassigned to RCCD

Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division2007 Highlights

Transition From RLIN21 to Voyager

RLIN21 ceased: August 2007

Voyager (Library of Congress system)

Transliterator

Acquisitions 2007 Highlights

Acquired 1,073,311 (including CJK) pieces: through purchase, gift, exchange, or transfer from other government agencies

New electronic resources: includedChina Times News DatabaseDatabase of the Chinese GovernmentAsian Geospatial DatasetNorth Korea’s Newspaper & Journals Database

An official exchange agreement: with the National Assembly Library of Korea

Acquisitions 2007 Highlights

Acquire digital content

Science materials from Taiwan and for Macau publications

Digital Table of Contents2007 Highlights

Total production: 86,000 TOCs 28,692 titles added in FY07, including 2,126

Chinese, Japanese and Korean PDFs 242 English summaries: in Chinese,

Japanese, or Korean materials.

Bibliographic Data from Vendors

“Bibliographic Services Agreement”

Japan Publications Trading Company (JPTC): 200 monographs in the areas of humanities and social sciences

Kinokuniya: 70 monographs in the area of science and technology

Bibliographic Data from Vendors

China National Publishing Industry Trading Corporation (CNPITC)

Initial Bibliographic Control (IBC) records for some Chinese materials

Bibliographic Data from Vendors

Eulyoo Publishing CompanyA cooperative agreement for bibliographic

services was signed in Oct. 2006. to purchase initial bibliographic control records.

Disrupted by the closure of the RLIN bibliographic utility

Cataloging Policy and Support Office2007 Highlights

Transition From RLIN21 to Voyager

Change in Practice for Spacing in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

Frequently Asked Questions : Cataloging of Nonroman Script Materials at the Library of Congress in a Post-RLIN World

Cataloging Policy and Support Office2007 Highlights

Non-roman data in Authority recordsDiscussing with NACO nodes Implementation in April 2008, or laterWhite Paper: Issues Related to Non-Latin Characters in

Name Authority Records

CJK script data for non-book materials, such as maps, music, posters, etc.

Cataloging Policy and Support Office2007 Highlights

LC Classification Schedules

E-F (History: America) H (Social Sciences) M (Music) N (Fine Arts) PN (Literature General) Q (Science) T (Technology)

Classification Web (the official version) is updated daily, overnight

Cataloging Policy and Support Office2007 Highlights

KNN (Chinese law)

Non-roman script (Chinese) added

Chinese Team2007 Highlights

Received: 10,716 (-21%) Completed: 12,369 (-3%) Work on hand: 1,340 (-57%) MLC increased 240% to 2,213, including 1,355

microforms South Manchuria Railway Company Collection,

Taiwan Election Collection, and the Overseas Chinese Activities Collection

“Subject headings and classification: handbook for Chinese catalogers”

Japanese Team2007 Highlights

Received: 6,809 (+14%) Completed: 8,225 (+40%) Work on hand: 1,142 Cataloged 126 Japanese rare art books selected

from “Pre-Meiji Works in the Library” Processed 1,208 Japanese serial titles from South

Manchurian Railroad, published 1909-1944 LC-CEAL Cataloging Internship

Korean/Chinese Team2007 Highlights

Received: 6,667 (-11%) Completed: 7,639 (+9%) Work on hand: 546 120 titles of Rare Korean religious

materials from the late 19th century and early 20th century

Revision of the Korean romanization and word division guidelines

Reorganization of ABA Directorate (Plan)

Directorate management plan to implement the reorganization at the start of fiscal year 2009

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