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February 3, 2017 Sarah Stacy, Library and Archives Canada

Your Government, Your Publications! Adding New MARC21 Records to Your Catalogue with Help From Library and Archives Canada. February 3, 2017 Sarah Stacy, Library and Archives Canada. Overview. Introduction. LAC Mandate.

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February 3, 2017 Sarah Stacy, Library and Archives Canada

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  1. Your Government, Your Publications!Adding New MARC21 Records to Your Catalogue with Help From Library and Archives Canada February 3, 2017 Sarah Stacy, Library and Archives Canada

  2. Overview Introduction

  3. LAC Mandate LAC has a legislated mandate to be “the permanent repository of publications for the Government of Canada” - Library and Archives of Canada Act (S.C. 2004, c. 11) New senior management : LAC on new path forward • Recent internal realignment has created new Published Heritage Branch Bibliographic Description Section • GoC team : 8 cataloguers (librarians and technicians)

  4. Government of Canada Publications “Government information is a national resource, vital to the country’s social, cultural and economic development” -Dr. Marianne Scott, former National Librarian of Canada

  5. Where we fit

  6. LAC MARC21 Cataloguing Records We are producing high-quality, authoritative metadata in a timely manner. • LAC has a 10-day service standard for the newest GoC publications • Describes new publications at full, core and abbreviated levels • Searches for gaps weekly, with focus on pre-1970 publications • Using Resource Description and Access (RDA) descriptive standard • Assigns LCSH/CSH subject headings • LAC has the country’s most accurate and up-to-date authority records for GoC entities Approximately 4,000 titles described each year

  7. A time of transition Canadian Libraries: • Major shift from print to electronic • Change in information seeking behaviour

  8. Out with the old: 1995

  9. In with the new: Batched MARC21 records

  10. Batched MARC21 records http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/services/MARC21/Pages/introduction.aspx http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/fra/services/MARC21/Pages/introduction.aspx

  11. Descriptive Challenges Challenges specific to cataloguing GoC publications :

  12. GoC collections http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/royal-commissions-index/Pages/index-federal-royal-commissions.aspx http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/fra/decouvrez/commissions-royales-index/Pages/index-commissions-royales-federales.aspx

  13. Support to the community Government Information Day: October 26, 2017 at LAC “Bad libraries build collections, good libraries build services, great libraries build communities” -R. David Lankes (2012) Contact us: http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/services/cataloguing-metadata/Pages/cataloguing-metadata.aspx http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/fra/services/catalogage-metadonnees/Pages/catalogage-metadonnees.aspx

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