Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Additions to Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and Schemes

The source codes listed below have been recently approved. The codes will be added to the applicable Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and Schemes lists. See the specific source code lists for current usage in MARC fields and MODS/MADS elements.

The codes should not be used in exchange records until 60 days after the date of this notice to provide implementers time to include newly-defined codes in any validation tables.

Cartographic Data Source Codes
The following source codes have been added to the Cartographic Data Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.

Additions:
cwg
Cambridge world gazetteer: a geographical dictionary (Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press)
edm
Enciclopedia de Mexico (Ciudad de Mexico: Enciclopedia de Mexico)
fnib
Foreign names information bulletin (Washington, D.C.: Defense Mapping Agency)

Subject Heading and Term Source Codes
The following source codes have been added to the Subject Heading and Term Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.

Additions:
ddcut
Dewey Decimal Classification user terms (Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Online Computer Center)
noram
Noram: emneord for Norsk-amerikansk samling (Oslo: Nasjonalbiblioteket)

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Bibliography in the Digital Age

News from IFLA.
The videos and presentations from the satellite meeting Bibliography in the digital age arranged by IFLA Bibliography Section and IFLA Cataloguing Section are made available online by our kind host Biblioteka Narodowa, Warsaw, Poland at: http://www.bn.org.pl/ifla-2012/presentations-and-videos/
The presentations are:
  • Aniko Dudás: Who are the users and what are their expectations?
  • Tuula Haapamäki and Sinikka Luukkanen: Cataloguing Policy in the National Library of Finland - strategies and practices for the metadata of digital resources
  • Hanne Hørl Hansen: Online materials in The Danish National Bibliography
  • Karin Kleiber: Online materials published in Austria - collecting, archiving and metadata
  • Anke Meyer: The management of a digital national bibliography at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
  • Pat Riva: National Bibliography in Canada: Two national bibliographic agencies, two approaches
  • Marcin Roszkowski: Integration of Polish National Bibliography within repository platform for science and humanities
  • Neil Wilson: Guidelines for the future: sharing best practice for national bibliographies in the digital era