ACORD
The recording of ACORD’s October BIBFRAME webinar is now available to view here.
Trove Strategic Advisory Committee (TSAC)
A one-page summary from TSAC’s October meeting is available here.
ORDAC
The proposals from the Extent Working Group are significant and worth reading through in detail. Full details are available here: Ready for Feedback: Proposals from the Extent Working Group | ALA RDA Toolkit
The discussion paper looks at soft-deprecated parallel elements (eg parallel title proper, parallel statement of responsibility relating to title proper). It also discusses approaches that do not use these elements such as implementation undertaken at the National Library of New Zealand and the MARC2RDA project. Details are available here: Discussion Paper on Soft-Deprecated Terms Out for Community Review | ALA RDA Toolkit
These will be discussed at the January meeting. To allow time for ORDAC to finalise their response, all feedback should be sent to Jack Ennis-Butler jack@rdatoolkit.org before Monday 5 January.
Australian Subject Analysis Project (ASAP)
Our friends at the American Library Association Core Subject Analysis Committee’s Working Group on Local Headings (they agree it’s a long name) are conducting two surveys to assess both (1) needs for implementing local subject headings and (2) existing methods utilised for implementing local subjects. The working group welcomes international perspectives.
- Take the survey on local heading needs to share what support you think your institution would need to make changes to subjects, genres, and other authority data in the local catalogue.
AND/OR
- Take the survey on methods used for local headings to share what methods your institution uses or has used to make changes to subjects, genres, and other authority data in the local catalogue.
The surveys will close on 5 December 2025. If you have questions about the survey or the Working Group, please email working group chairs Allison Bailund abailund@sdsu.edu or Rebecca Saunders rlsaunders@email.wcu.edu.
US Library of Congress
Now that LC is off Voyager and on FOLIO, a 100% Unicode-compliant environment, they and OCLC can more fully support non-Latin scripts in cataloguing. Users sourcing records from LC and OCLC may encounter records with more non-Latin scripts. More info here.
Other
Videos are now available from the recent SWIB25 (Semantic Web in Libraries) conference on their YouTube channel. The conference explored the use of linked data formats and platforms in a variety of library and non-library contexts.
OCLC’s upcoming webinar From Research to Reality: Cataloging Through Three Lenses, featuring presentations from Brian Lavoie and Anne Washington at OCLC and Nina Whittaker at Museums Victoria, is in an Australia-friendly timeslot: Tuesday 2 December, 12pm AEDT. Register here.