Where's the Bailout for Publishing? - The Daily Beast

Books are essential to American life, and if publishing perishes, Stephen L. Carter argues, democracy itself will soon follow. "Where's the Bailout for Publishing?"

Not really about wanting a bailout -- this interesting take on the importance of the book as a physical object is well worth your reading time.

NISO 2009 Education Program Schedule

The 2009 schedule of NISO in-person education events and webinars is listed at:

http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009

The webinar series will kick-off on January 14 (1:00-2:30 PM, Eastern Time) with "Digital Preservation: Current Efforts." Speakers include Mary Alice Baish, Director, Government Relations Office, AALL. More info at: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/digpres09

lcsh.info Update

The lcsh.info project was mentioned earlier on this blog, but it has now been taken down. Read more at: http://lcsh.info/2008/12/19/uncool-uris/

(Catalogablog)

LC Genre/Form Projects

Timeline and Plan for the Next Five Library of Congress Genre/Form Projects is at:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/genretimeline.pdf

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GPO Separate Record Cataloging Policy

November 19, 2008

At the request of the Federal Depository Library community, the Government Printing Office, Library Services & Content Services, Library Technical Information Services (LTIS) staff has formulated a policy for creating separate records for every manifestation of a document. This policy follows an internal review of the current approach of single record cataloging.

http://www.fdlp.gov/cataloging-news/new-cataloging-p.html

(Catalogablog)

"Facing Forward" Slides

Check out Diane Hillmann's slides for her presentation "Facing Forward: The Challenges Facing Cataloging and Catalogers" at: http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/11536

Abstract: This presentation discusses issues surrounding the implementation of Resource Description and Access (RDA) in libraries. It also covers the work done by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative/RDA Task Group with provisional forms of RDA Elements, Roles and Vocabularies, how these relate to existing AACR2-MARC21 based applications, and how the library community might use metadata in a more forward-looking way.

(FRBR Blog)

Why RDA?

Check out Tim Knight's slides from his presentation at the Canadian Association of Law Libraries conference on May 26, 2008. It's entitled "Why RDA?" and is at:

http://pi.library.yorku.ca/dspace/handle/10315/2486

(Bib Blog)