Update on the changes at the Library of Congress. I have written about them before. The American Library Association weights in in a Congressional Committee:
ALA’s testimony emphasized that any diminution of the quality or quantity of cataloging provided by the Library of Congress will force the nation’s public, school, and academic libraries to take on this work themselves or abandon it altogether. “When the Library of Congress decides to cut cataloguing services to our nation’s libraries, thousands of Americans’ ability to locate and identify desired information is diminished,” Gorman said. The ALA requested that the Library of Congress return to its former practice of broad consultation with the library community prior to making significant changes in cataloging policy. Further, the association urged the Library of Congress to “re-dedicate itself to cooperative cataloging programs and cooperative standards efforts, in which both the Library of Congress and partner libraries can benefit from standards established together.”
Link (via Library Juice, again)
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