{"id":9911,"date":"2015-02-01T14:23:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T19:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=9911"},"modified":"2015-02-06T17:57:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T22:57:01","slug":"snowy-library-conferece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/snowy-library-conferece\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowy library conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’re having a blizzard in Chicago. I’m listening to a librarian update us on LoC cataloging stats – 77K more new person records, 3K new subject headings, and so on.<\/p>\n

It’s a big deal because library cataloging standards are undergoing big changes. The rules changed, from one acronym to another, AACR to RDA, and that took about 10 years – from 2003-2013 – but even bigger, the format and the way cataloging is done is changing. We’re going from creating database records – into systems originally designed to print cards – to a more webified, data-in-encoded-xml documents, method.<\/p>\n

Now that I’m sitting here, I remember sitting in basically the same meeting last year, in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

I go to all this stuff so I can teach it.<\/p>\n

But most people would run screaming.<\/p>\n

And, from the tweets, I might’ve selected the wrong meeting – this alternate sounds good:<\/p>\n

Remember, #BIBFRAME<\/a> is only the bucket for data! RDA is only one type of description standard it can hold #alamw15<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Gloria Gonzalez (@InformaticMonad) February 1, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n