ALA Annual Chicago 2013

THURSDAY – June 27

8:30-11:00 MCP-S106a Introduction to RDR and Ontologies for the Semantic Web / presenter Steve Miller, UWM School of Information Studies See workbook

FRIDAY – June 28

Technical Services Directors Large Research Libraries IG Lorcan Dempsey – 4 things about discovery. Trends leading back to Technical Services Discovery happens elsewhere – i.e. outside the library. Ithaka s+r 2009 reported shift by faculty to non- library resources. Elsevier recently acquired Mendeley; things like Google Scholar, etc. We need active promotion: interpretation through social media; syndication - pushing metadata (putting info in Wikipedia), links, and services; search engine optimization – interoperability with the Web – how to configure institutional repositories so crawlers (Google) can find our stuff. Outside-in vs. inside-out. Look at: uniqueness and stewardardship/scarcity demonstrated in a grid. We have focused on books e-databases (outside-in). Special Collections (inside-out) are highly stewarded and unique. The stuff in between are new forms of scholarly output (institutional repositories), eprints, video being pushed out, etc. These are generally for the campus use but also available to the world. Outside-in (bought licensed): increased consolidation, move to licensed, move to user-driven models, coming together of licensed and print metadata workflows. Inside out: Institutional assets, special collections, research and learning materials – we need to make them more important and accessible. From collection to whole library. Search box searches everything (Primo). But how do we add the whole library? Research guides, information on our own web pages. Remodeling. VIAF clusters information, provides URIs, linked data. Schema.org approach, BIBFRAME. How to mark up resources to make them more useful. Exploit the network of connections, e.g. knowledge graphs in Wikipedia or Google. We need to describe things and make them linkable in different, interesting ways. mapFAST is an example – what library has a book I am interested in.

Judy. Role of Technical Services in changing role of libraries. She has a diagram with past-to-future models for service, collections, discovery, access, perpetuity. Details will vary depending on purpose of the library (public, academic, etc.) E.g. Discovery: local discovery tools, controlled vocabulary, consumptive research, national/international discovery tools, interoperable vocabulary and access, consumptive & non- consumptive research, share and non-siloed discovery tools, linked data – dynamically generated metadata, enhanced tools for consumptive and non-consumptive research. In a meeting with faculty at U of Chicago, interest was for local access of resources, not interested in discovery tools – catalog info is fine, not very focused on services because they know what they need (they think). Students don’t care if we own it as long as they get it, they valued services and role of spaces to interact with each other, 24- access, both rowdy and quiet spaces. Donors highly value locally held collections. There needs to be an investment in technology, not just the hardware, but use of it. Discovery tools have to intellectually valuable. We need to articulate needs to funding agencies. So what does this mean for technical services? Need to manage a wide range of resources – print and discovery tools. Need flexibility in staffing. Exercise shared responsibilities – in and outside library (institutional repositories). Develop new skills. Technical Services is no longer a backroom function. Technical Services provides analytical support for the resources we are providing for front-end use. Lorcan wonders if there can be shared responsibility of e-books and other digital resources rather like we share payment for licensed journals. One library mentioned decreased staff in traditional acquisitions but increasing staff in metadata management and supporting discoverability as a trend. Technical Services need to make resources findable, whether physically processing a book or creating metadata in a way a web site finds it that users are using. Aren’t we beyond find, identify, select – beyond FRBR (I still think it is outdated). We need to facilitate the finding. How do we improve reference service with the work technical services does. BIBFRAME is going to improve accessibility. Technical Services also needs to work more closely with IT. We think about serving individuals but we need to also think about servicing the “machines”, e.g. switching to BIBFRAME from MARC. Work in digital projects, technical services knows what kind of metadata scheme and standards would make those materials most findable and useful. Technical Services staff need to be on teams working with faculty on digital projects.

E-resources problems and solutions There are more interdependences than ever and it is all dependent on metadata (e.g. metadata we get for Gale One in Primo) Issues: Incomplete data: content provided does not set all holdings to a knowledge base, e-resources silently disappear from library inventory, access may be given for the new title when a title changes or when there is a new edition of an e-book, perpetual access also means we need perpetual access related to the resource. The metadata needs to be standardized so they don’t differ for the same resources - the user is presented with what looks like different resources but it is for the same article. KBart – Knowledge Bases and Related Tools – joint UKSG and NISO project. Aim to develop a recommended practice to ensure the timely transfer of accurate data to knowledge bases, ERMs, etc. Their recommendations specify metadata elements, file structure means of data transfer and frequency of updates. They are working updating the recommendations with Phase 2. What can libraries do? We need to communicate better within our institution and with others in the supply chain and other libraries using the products. When purchasing e-resources, bring metadata into the conversation, discuss with publishers the necessity for perpetual supply of metadata and KBart. We need to be able to explain why we need the metadata. In effect, it can make their product better (better sales?) We need metadata requirements in our licenses and that metadata be available to a discovery resource of our choice (i.e. EBSCO should provide to Primo). Document your entitlements carefully. Take snapshots of your holdings data – you will be surprised – and back up your data. Don’t assume the knowledge base provider is doing this for you. KBart hasn’t been picked up by very many publishers – what is the roadblock for them?

Global Open Knowledgebase (GOKb) – will be a freely available data repository that will contain key publication information about electronic resources as it is represented… It is being by a team of people of OLE, JISC, etc. It will contain publisher data, package information, standard licenses. It will identify national licenses (i.e. Australain and US versions may be different) It looks like what you see in the SFX knowledge base – package characteristics.

What keeps you up at night? Much of the discussion was on staffing compensation, knowledge levels, upward mobility.

Gale filed for bankruptcy? What does getting a subscription to HathiTrust do for you? (I heard you can print more pages but you still can’t get access to copyrighted books). If you have access, do you keep or toss your print? Columbia would still keep print.

12:00-4:00 MCP E351 NISO Forum http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/ala2013/nisobisgforum/

Presentations will be on web page. Digital content REQUIRES interoperability to function. NISO are neutral partners working standards issues. NISO feeds US concerns into ISO. Whither bibliographic data? MARC is really efficient. Many technological things we use were created before we landed on the moon. Metadata is exchanged by many players – publishers, libraries, etc. We just don’t all use the same metadata – e.g. ONIX vs. MARC There is a movement now towards linked data. Is it sufficient? Any new ILS needs to be: Demonstrably cheaper More effective for discovery and use Make staff more efficient OR the ILS become non-operable or non-interoperable NISO has initiated a bibliographic roadmap project. Some issues: semantics, interoperability, economics, rules, provenance/authority, staffing/training, users. They are trying to avoid multiple competing standards. “If you don’t know where you are going you won’t get there”

Metadata/Linked data: guiding folks to our resources – Richard Wallis – OCLC Where are our users? They aren’t looking our catalogs or even browsing the stacks. They are more likely in the café or in their dorm users. 80% of users search from search engines (Google) – not Google Scholar or Google Books Wikipedia and Google now present Knowledge Graphs with a collection of facts using linked data. We aren’t in Google because Google doesn’t understand MARC, ISBD, OAI-PMH, RDA, Z39.50 So OCLC, using Schema.org, embedded data with RDFa with links to Dewey and LCSH, LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST. In Worldcat.org you can see the linked data. These are things not strings. Data available via Content-Negotiation: RDF/XML, JSON-LD, Turtle, Triples – now it is 2 clicks in Google to get to WorldCat.org When you click below “library near you” there are links through FAST, and ? data from Wikipedia and other resources are assembled and presented to the user. Including the schema.org vocabulary has increased the retrievability of library resources. It isn’t designed to exchange data like we do with MARC. The web uses it. Schema bib extend community group. The mission is to discuss and make proposals for extending schema.org schemas for the improved presentation. BIBFRAME goal is to make bibliographic description as part of the web. Schema.org and BIBFRAME are complimentary – they have their own structure and vocabularies and the information can be taken from either one because the bibliographic data is part of the web. MARC data is too much – users want just enough to decide if it’s what they want Libraries have handled materials of all types. Our data has to be visible on the web of data so Google knows we have it. We need to be registered in the network. We are moving from cataloging to http://catalinking The author is a link to naf or VIAF, the subject id http://id.loc.gov We need to reassert our role as a discoverable resource for all materials – in the Web; we need to “look important” to Google crawlers. Card catalogs were initially designed so librarians could find their books – not for users.

E-Book discovery and requirements for Metadata Summon – John Law 50% of libraries resources are now digital but less than half of users don’t know how to find ebooks. Need to optimize e-book discovery – broad content coverage, relevance, match and merge, full-text search, features to meet user expectations, accurate metadata, direct linking HathiTrust does full-text indexing – you suddenly realize you have the book you need already on your shelf What’s driving need for better e-book discovery? Collections are volatile, acquisitions models are changing (PDA), new things to manage – license, trial, change from PDA to held, disconnected management and discovery – results in duplication of data entry and endless loading of records. Libific – automate process of retrieving metadata from publishers to libraries. So rather than cataloging and bringing in records, the Summon software “exposes” titles you have acquired or packages you’ve purchased. The problem is publisher’s metadata is too often incorrect. (Sounds similar to OCLC but with OCLC you use the “better” OCLC record – not the publisher’s).

User access to e-books EPUB-3 standard for representing, packaging, and encoding structured and semantically enhanced web content. See BISG policy statement Pol-1201 Ebook sales is growing dramatically for fiction; non-fiction and children’s books is still more highly in print. Non-fiction, non-immersive often lends itself to only reading a portion or non-linear reading, e.g. cookbook. EPUB-3 grid is designed to say what is displayed how on multiple devices. Because of the multiple devices publishers often issue titles in different file formats. It assess things like paging (some don’t retain printed pagings), things that need to stay together vs. just flowing text from screen to screen, e.g. graphs, mathematical formulas, kids illustrated books; support for different file formats (RTF, Word, etc.); screen pinching, audio and video support.

Accessibility. Libraries don’t know what file formats work on what readers. For those with special needs this is very difficult. Benetech works with vendors on accessibility, things like JAWS, Read2Go, braille notetakers, (Digital Accessible Information System) talking books which contains one or more digital audio files; handles highly structured content; bookmarking; choices for print or audio or both; highlighting text while listening for dyslexics. EPUB 3 supports HTML5 which has a better semantic structure, better separation of content and style; supports mathML (math XML); provides different modes of access to visual information in an image; tactile graphics, text/audio descriptions, etc. In some cases you can find closed captioning in Google – try “moon landing” by Neil deGrasse Tyson; checkout a11ymetadata.org.

Ithaka S+R reports are showing increased use of ebooks by faculty for reading but not the same use in classes. Use various in the humanities and sciences. See latest reports.

5:30-7:00 MCP Exhibits open Picked up some books and visited the Ex Libris booth.

7:30-9:30PM Hyatt RM-Clark 22AB SAC RDA (was DuSable 21A) Notes Friday, June 28, at 7:30 in Clark 22AB, Hyatt Regency McCormick Place (http://ala13.ala.org/node/10892). We discussed Tony’s paper, which will be discussed at SAC Monday and in CC:DA by e-mail after ALA. We want to emphasize need to add genre. John Attig thinks we need to wait for IFLA to add something for genre but some of us don’t want to wait as long as this is likely to take. John provided additional comments which were included in document send to SAC.

SATURDAY – June 29

Diane Hillmann – we can already migrate MARC to XML/RDF – why bother with BIBFRAME? A comment to her email noted it is not OWL 8:30-10:00 MCP-N132 Ex Libris – Hiding in plain Cite: the growing importance of content neutrality in library discovery services Speakers: Amira Aaron - Associate Dean @ Northeastern University Libraries Wally Grotophorst - AUL @ George Mason University Libraries Lisa O'Hara - Head of Discovery and Delivery Services @ University of Manitoba Libraries Todd Carpenter - Managing Director @ NISORoger Schonfeld - Program Director, Libraries, Users, and Scholarly Practices @ Ithaka S+R

Data/content neutrality in discovery NISO is working on open discovery standards. Lisa O’Hara said it was painful to watch their students with their original discovery system. Then tried Summon, now there are doing Primo and again did usage studies. Students absolutely love. EBSCO title use went up and resources are getting used more than before. Amira Aaron (Northeastern U) – discovery is not just an add-on. It IS our interface. Discovery systems don’t replace native content interface with researchers but Primo is great for undergraduates. We can’t load all the bib records for things like HathiTrust but selecting Primo, you’ve got it. Wally George Mason University – Primo was disruptive for librarians, not users. Todd (NISO) original approach by discovery services was how fast the servers found something to show users. Now we pre-index and prepare a better result set.

What does content neutrality mean? Todd – providing equal access to a community from a variety services from a variety of directions. Not everyone has the same rights. NISO is trying to work with vendors to understand the need for access. Wally – it is similar to issues with various personal internet or TV providers – Netflix slower or restricted. Same thing happens in the discovery layer. Ex: Student seeking a PDF dissertation. Only found the print, but went to a different library and found a pdf from their services. Their discovery service can’t pull from their digital database (Dissertation Abstracts) The problems started when the providers decided to add discovery systems instead of allowing us to just buy the content. It affects how other discovery systems ranking and relevance works. Lisa – we want to provide links to our resources wherever the student may be working – i.e. in Libguides, Blackboard. Licenses shouldn’t restrict that. We need to be aggressive in insisting we can do that model. Todd – the resources need to be discoverable which leads to use which affects the vendors’ business model. We need negotiate with that in mind

API access. Lisa – API really is doing meta-search whereas Primo is doing relevance and other features from the start. Important to make people log in before they start. The Ex Libris server is doing the work; you would have to do a lot of work to maintain. Amira – API doesn’t have facets. Wally – usually slower and no control over order of result sets. It can’t scale and we’d be back to the metasearch environment we didn’t like.

Is the license where we make the impact? Amira – has anyone seen language that says we can use the resource in the discovery service of our choice. We need to raise the issue. It doesn’t make sense that we buy something we can’t display. Usage will diminish and then we may not renew the resource. Vendors need to understand content neutrality would actually benefit their business model.

Do we feel we understand how the vendors’ content affects relevancy or ranking. Amira – it is hard but we need to understand so we know to boost the resource, not the aggregator. When the metadata is thinner for discovery services other than the vendor’s own proprietary system, we don’t know what we are getting or not. It seems we are the users. It doesn’t seem right that we don’t have the control. (Veiled criticism of EBSCO). Wally – on the other hand Google does its own boosting. Todd – but with Google and Bing and Yahoo – you can do the same search and see what they are doing. You have to be able to look at multiple discovery services and compare in the same way with your needs in mind, but you can’t do that. In the past for an A&I service we asked for a list of titles indexed. With these content providers we get no similar information.

Usage Amira -We base our collection development decisions based on usage and the way discovery systems are allowed to be handled and what happens when you use facets, the statistics are bogus.

One vendor said he is frustrated that he can’t tell whether his stuff is actually being indexed well in the various discovery services. The problem is the license is with the aggregator, not the content provider.

Knowing the level of the metadata is crucial. The aggregators may have some level of metadata standards but we don’t know what they are doing.

Yale said they insisted that their metadata must be discoverable in discovery services when they negotiated contracts. They require the ability to see how the discovery system does relevancy and how it ranks their metadata.

Oren – another consideration is the author’s wishes. The vendor’s aren’t communicating with them but faculty often need to know how much their works are cited and used.

10:30-12:00 MCP-N132 Ex Libris – A day in the life of an e-resource librarian using Alma Speakers: Barbara Rad-El - Senior Librarian @ Ex Libris Group Carmit Marcus - Director of Product Management @ Ex Libris Group

Betsy – University of Minnesota not going live til Dec. Too much doesn’t work for them. The whole deleting items, can’t deal with group orders, no NLM or GOVD class reports (also no local)

Primo search widget. It has status and publishing job list if I am a system librarian. I would want for CFL – not just ODIN. Adding portfolios is under resource management. Can either work from the drop down list of options available to me or use the Quicklinks at the top of the screen in the menu bar. To place an e-resource order, check the community zone. If we already have it, the “building” institution icon will show the packages we have it in. in the Institution (Library) Zone, the “people” icon displays. There are 90,000 CONSER records (Betsy says not always good – [wouldn’t OCLC records be better?]) in the community zone.

Select Electronic Collection to see or place order a package. A dropdown is available to searching. Click in community zone to Order and it will take you back to my library zone. I chose a purchase type and then select what library I am ordering it for. I can have templates set up for a vendor. I create to order and a screen displays with a variety of tabs with various work options. I can see license information, check balance in the budget I want to use. I chose “save and continue” In the task list, once I have ordered a title, the task list will add that someone needs to activate it (saying “unassigned”). Once I click that it knows it is me taking care of the order/activation. Conforms to the DLF early standard (note “early” – supposedly all 69 options available – listserv libraries say no). I can look at a license and see the packages using that license. From the task list, I can see what needs activating. A dropdown shows options including activate. When I click that it takes me to a screen with step numbers at the top to make sure I carry out all the steps (like ordering online that tracks the steps 1-2-3). I activate the package and each title. It will put these titles in the institution (library) zone using bibs from the community zone. What happens if it is not in the Community zone nor is there a license - you can add a local portfolio (list of titles) – under Create inventory in Resources management. There is an option to say if you want to add the package in a way that if later it shows up in SFX it will know you want to link your local package to the new SFX package (what if you don’t name it the same?) In an e-book package, we can select titles individually. They are using bibs from vendors – the example displayed had all 650_4 – not 650_0 [wouldn’t OCLC records be better?]. These bibs may be augmented with large contents notes. If titles in packages change, Ex Libris asks vendors to notify them of adds, deletes, changes, then the packages will automatically be updated. Supports trials (before order) and evaluations (already own but need to decide on renewal). Can specify people to review the trial and submit “survey” form. I can define questions and specify content, or interface, and ask for yes-no or a scale. The questions that have used before are in a pool so I can re-use them in a new survey. Once they respond, the Analysis tab shows responses in an average. At the end you can enter your decisions. For a trial you place an order in Alma, but when you make the decision to really buy, you notify the vendor. There is a PDA profile (patron driven). I chose things like thresholds (3 views in Primo creates an order). The vendor will send invoice marked PDA. Then import EOD (order) as part of PDA and import repository as part of PDA (i.e. in Primo) Reporting – Alma analytics, Catalog, Shared folders. Alma is from Ex Libris, UND University is ones I have created, the Community zone is other libraries created if they make it shareable. Even if created elsewhere, I see my data. Can do top LC classification and top subjects search of inventory for e-resources. Not sure how useful that really is. There is a “save as” with Ex libris reports so I can add parameters, then save for me. There is no NLM and SUDOC (plus no local number). Decentralized ordering (e.g. UND and UNE buy) will be available by the end of the year – Betsy says it isn’t working for U of Minn which is one system. There are unlimited notes and they are searchable.

1:00-2:30 INTER-Seville East MAGIRT – Maps & RDA

There is going to be an RDA cataloging webinar July 22, 1pm central https://ala.adobeconnect.com/e4so1gw0qic/event/registration.html

The powerpoint will be at http://magirt.ala.libguides.com/trainingsandpresentations

There will be a chart with all the combinations of 366-368’s for maps $e – (see magirt libguide page) Authors – author, cartographer, designer Corp. – Producer, sponsoring body

Ca. or approx. now approximately Spell out color Cm no period Don’t put scale in brackets – scale approximately ###

Scale is core. It must be a representative fraction. If is verbal, 1 in. to 4 miles, multiply 63,360 by 4. See video on YouTube “natural scale indicator” with Susan Moore. First determine the type of unit, e.g. Line up the top of the scale with the unit. But if you have something an inch is 100 then multiply the number shows on the scale by 100. Exercise: top line at beginning of scale bar. It lined up with about 170,000 at the 10 mile mark or so, so 175,000 x 10 equals approximately 1:1,750,000

3:00-4:30 MCP-S100c ALA Council/exec bd/membership info President-Elect’s report – #29.1 Presidential initiative: Libraries Changes Lives. A Declaration for the Right to Libraries has been developed to serve as a strong public statement of the value of libraries for individuals, communities, and our nation. We need to get it signed in local chapters. A second area of Libraries Change Lives focuses on literacy. We know that libraries are fundamental literacy – young children developing a love of readings, older adults learning digital literacy, immigrants participating in English classes and conversations, students developing the skills of information literacy, individuals learning financial literacy, families enjoying literacy activities together.

Report to Council and Executive Board – Keith Michael Fields – CD 23.1 He commented on the work of the Digital Content Working Group which is working on library e-book lending. 439 programs and 984 meetings scheduled for this conference. Mary Biblo asked why there are no more paper petitions to be councilor-at-large. Keith noted that 75% percent are currently being done online. http://www.ala.org/liberty information on section 215 section the Patriot Act

Endowment Trustees report - #16.1 A number of items listed in the report indicate the probability the income will drop in the coming months. However, returns have been running at 8.4%. The trustees look at the returns index at every meeting. They look at the asset allocation category to select a broad range of types of investments. They believe equities will be less risky than bonds along with the Fed’s announcement on slowing down for bond purchases. There is an analysis of the fossil fuel report and document forwarded to BARC. – #16.2 Calculated if we divested in the 3 funds currently held and what we’d earn if we used clean alternative energy sources. Two personal members spoke against ALA investing in fossil fuels.

BARC There is a projected deficit in the general fund. Divisions and Round Tables in are in good financial shape. The projected deficit is 1.9 million. If Chicago does well it could close the gap between revenue and expenses. Publishing is down and we were probably too optimistic in projecting book sales. 7% expense reductions were taken across all units of ALA. That includes limited staff compensation including a 10% cut and a reduction in staff for ALA. In 2012 ALA had a 1.3 deficit that was to be covered by net asset balance. ALA budget for 2013 planned to replenish that with $300,000 but the shortfall made that impossible. (So we have no cushion) More cuts will be made to budgets for small divisions.

Treasurers report - #13 Reporting at this meeting is on strategic issues and financial trends. Political environments are not supportive of libraries. There is increased globalization of policy debates – e.g. WIPO. We have seen massive changes in the publishing industry with more focus on licensed resources. Our 3 sources – dues, publishing, conferences – are all dropping. We need to invest in technology and systems that allow us to be as productive as possible. We must look beyond core business – new products and new markets: electronic publishing, online education, more direct interactions with the public and library users. Expect 1.9 million drop in publishing and 1.7 in grants. We see a reduction in the 2014 budget down to 28.8 million. Holding open 33 vacant positions.

4:30-5:30 MCP-S100c ALA candidates ; Membership meeting Resolution on fossil fuels was voted down. The 2nd resolved indicated we would support communities affected by fossil fuels if the fossil fuel companies began to fail because we discontinue investment in their companies. Note: This made no sense. So ALA would compensate Williston for empty apartments if the oil field workers left? As a councilor and personally I support efforts to move to a greener earth but there is nothing ALA can financially support. I voted against it.

6:00-8:00 HRM-BR C&D Ex Libris reception I attended.

SUNDAY – June 30

7:30-8:30 MCP Lakeside BR (E354a) OCLC breakfast OCLC is partnering in IMLS funding and information services to help people sign up for the Affordable Care Act. OCLC now has access to 14.5 million e-books. OCLC signed agreement with Family Search to load bib records from their resources and will show a genealogical research center near them in WorldCat.org. In the Digital Public Library OCLC will be attributed to in bib records (a project in cooperation with HathiTrust and OCLC). mapFAST now has an app to find a library near you for all bibs in OCLC. Checkout http://www.oclc.org/research Soon will start testing IFM in the new ILL. Over 10,000 libraries will be moving to the new interface. 18,857 libraries are moving to the new FirstSearch. OCLC is using apache hbase (open source) – it is now processing 30 times faster (i.e. no longer Oracle). WorldShare Management (WMS) – 122 libraries up. Collections manager is now available. Record manager is in pilot (cataloging)

8:30-11:00 MCP – S100c ALA Council I (or -11:30) IMLS funding is available to help libraries provide information on the new Affordable Care Act. Message from Obama video viewed. Changes such as well-care checkups free, kids can stay on parents plan longer, you can get insurance through online interfaces. People need to sign up and libraries have internet access to provide access to healthcare.gov.

Committee on committees - #12 Nominees listed.

Review of actions since ALA Midwinter 2013 meeting - #15 All actions completed.

Implementation of the 2013 actions. #9 One thing they are working on is revising the organization/institution membership package.

Digital Content and Libraries Working Group - #30 Highlights: All of the 6 big publishers are working with libraries – maybe not in ideal but they are aware of issues for libraries. Authors for Libraries Ebook campaign is being launched. Accessibility group will report in the next months. Work is also going forward on business models for school libraries, a group on privacy and ethics, and preservation.

Resolutions. Support of Whistleblower Edward Snowden.#39 No policy implications though background support is from ALA policy. [Be it] resolved that ALA recognizes Edward Snowden as a whistleblower who, in releasing information that documents government attacks on privacy, free speech, and freedom of association, has performed a valuable service in launching a national dialogue about transparency, domestic surveillance, and over classification. Council approved a motion to refer.

Resolution reaffirming ALA’s commitment to basic literacy - #37 Resolved that ALA, on behalf its members:  Reaffirms and supports the principle that lifelong literacy is a basic right for all individual in our society and is essential to the welfare of the nation;  Reaffirms the core value of basic literacy as foundational for people of all ages and is the building block for developing other literacies;  Encourages appropriate ALA units and Divisions to actively participate in the Association’s Literacy Assembly; and  Urges appropriate ALA units and libraries of all types to make basic literacy a high priority by incorporating literacy initiatives into programs and services for all users Approved

Resolution – declaration for the right to libraries resolution #40 Resolved that ALA, on behalf of its members: Endorses the Declaration for the right to Libraries; and Urges that the America’s Right to Libraries Campaign be given ALA’s highest staff priority and support to engage libraries and communities across the country in signing the Declaration for the Right to Libraries Approved

NDLA SUPPORT AND SIGN? At MPLA? More information will be out soon. At Chapter Relations Committee The libraries change lives declaration naming processes will be mapped, goal is to count signatures and map them.... both physical and virtual signatures will be counted. ALA store may create posters. Libraries Change Lives Declaration will launch in July w a campaign, national signing and a toolkit. A week in October will be designated for signing ceremonies at schools.

Resolution on Library Service to the Community in a Natural Disaster #41 Resolved, that the American Library Association (ALA), on behalf of its members:  Recognizes the significant contributions of libraries and library staff who have provided effective emergency response/recovery services, and responded to the needs of their communities following hurricanes Sandy and Irene in ways that go above and beyond the regular call of duty;  Continues to encourage libraries to continue research documenting library needs and capacity to provide effective e-government and emergency response/recovery services as an essential part of library missions;  Shall direct a letter acknowledging the work and contributions of libraries and library staff to the State Chapters in the affected states of New York, New Jersey, Vermont and Connecticut to be passed on to the appropriate parties

Comments – one library getting named as a first responder in a disaster; bookmobiles were only internet access in Hurricane Sandy Needs rewriting – moved to Council II Resolution – fossil fuels - #42 Resolved, that the American Library Association, on behalf of its members: Directs its endowment trustees to begin divesting in the fossil fuel industry by excluding our three holdings in the “Filthy Fifteen” named in the Endowment Trustees’ Information Report to BARC that have “little or no significant negative impact” in the short term on ALA. Urge libraries, in addition to collecting and providing information on the environment, to take steps in assisting our communities in a peaceful transition to fossil-free energy sources, especially those communities whose economic well-being are heavily, if not completely, dependent on fossil fuels. Postponed

Resolution on Prayer in ALA meetings - #44 Resolved, that the American Library Association adopts as policy, the following statement: The American Library Association, as a secular institution in a country that is increasingly diverse religiously, refrains from having public prayers--or moments of silence substituting as prayers--during its meetings. Such prayers give the implicit message of excluding those who do not share the beliefs and an implicit message that ALA sponsors or supports those beliefs. Moments of silence should be observed during meetings only to honor a specific person or event.

Resolution Commending the Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) for Defending Videogames - #47 Resolved that the American Library Association:  Commends the FTRF for recognizing videogames as a non-print medium in libraries worthy of First Amendment protections;  Continues to support the FTRF in defense of libraries when presented with challenges to videogames included in gaming collections;  Continues to support the FTRF and support Game-RT so that it may be a “force for initiating and supporting game programming in libraries;  Continues to stand by the Freedom to RTRF in alignment with the researchers, politicians and institutions that challenge unscientific studies attributing violent behavior in videogames. Approved

Draft resolution on Digitation of U.S. Government Documents - #49 Resolved that the ALA, on behalf of its members:  Supports and encourages the preservation of Federal Depository Libraries paper collections  Opposes policies that would results in the destruction of FLD paper collections  Supports technologies that guarantee long-term, robust, verifiable, complete accurate, authentic, preservable, and usable digital formats;  Work with the Government Printing Office and the FDL community on developing procedures to authenticate and ingest digital content into FDsys digitization that come from FDL libraries and federal agencies; and  Supports the creation of an inventory of digitized government publications with records that include information on quality, completeness, accuracy, features, availability, limitations, costs, utility, and trusted preservation, and provide links to records in OCLC and GPO’s Catalog of U.S. Government Publications to that libraries can download batch MARC metadata Refer to Committee on Legislation and the FDLP Task Force

10:30-11:30 MCP-E352 BIBFRAME Update Forum

A video should be on LC website 1) Welcome; BIBFRAME in the Library of Congress context--Roberta I. Shaffer, Associate Librarian of Congress for Library Services 2) BIBFRAME with RDA WEMI and BIBFRAME profiles--Eric Miller, President, Zepheira 3) Reports from Community experimenters: Jeremy Nelson, Metadata/Systems Librarian, Colorado College—Experimenting with Bibframe & Redis Vinod Chachra, President and CEO, VTLS--BIBFRAME experimentation, linked data navigation and future OPACs Jean Godby, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Research--BIBFRAME and schema.org

The Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME) is a major community challenge to provide an alternative to the deeply embedded MARC formats that will be more compatible with the Web and Internet environment that offers new opportunities to leverage information. The program speakers will address multiple facets of the development -- how it fits into the major thrusts of Library of Congress programs and how it will attempt to span the different data models of the library and related communities. Two institutions that are experimenting with the general model have been asked to report, along with a discussion of its relationship to schema.org, the recent search engine attempt at standardization.

Shaffer - LC plans for the future and how BIBFRAME fits in. It is critical to the success of all their other projects: Knowledge navigators and human capital planning is a project to support researchers. World Digital Library, science.gov and other multi-partner global programs. There are a number of global projects LC is collaborating in. Social media / big data / non-traditional resources – we shouldn’t really label anything non-traditional because every type of resource is necessary for research. BIBFRAME – the internet of things, research, and commerce Digital resources (ingest and conversion) – print activities are going to be sub-ordinated to digital resources, but it may take 10 years One-library website development – going to be using a faceted search and a fully integrated website Center of Knowledge Reading Room and Learning Center. A project to bring together their reading rooms because we are in a trans-disciplinary world.

Eric Miller – Zephira – accommodating rule sets like RDA and profiles – “BIBFRAME community profiles” Trying to accommodate a range of “rules” not just one set of “rules” (i.e. not just RDA) BIBF aims to re-envision and implement a new bibliographic environment for librarys that makes the network central and makes interconnectedness commonplace. Need to be robust enough to deal with 40 years ago and 40 years into the future for memory organizations (libraries, museums, archives, publishers) for users can use them all. Annotation will assist the power of human computing. Work is based on recombinant data. We need to build up from simple building blocks to bigger building blocks. A community profile can be used to assemble them for a particular use. They can still be recombined into different uses. Community profiles (is this on the BIBFRAME.org page somewhere?) BIBFRAME is trying to take WEMI to a WEMI profiles to BIBFRAME in RDF graphs. Check BIBFRAME navigator They have tried using MARC records and VRA records to create an integrated interface of the two to present to users. Using profiles allows a particular community to define what they want to see – Community Profiles represent a means for projecting local meaning into a common framework. Nelson – has a site you can play with – can I see web site on video? http://discovery.coloradocollege.edu/apps/ They call their project, REDIS which is used in the naming. They are able to use multiple vocabularies. He ingested MARC21 records, MODS (digital commons), Gutenberg records (in RDF with a custom RDF vocabulary). Plan to test a couple of different user interfaces using the same data with actual users. They intend to pull in data from other sources like OpenLibrary, OCLC, etc.

VTLS. Identified needed abilities: support linked records, support BIBFRAME model, display hierarchical records. Create database to support BIBFRAME ? Need to be able to handle MARC and BF XML records at the same time. In a metadata management sys – you need to be able to ingest, export, edit. How do we implement BIBFRAME. They chose to use the ISAD model rather than FRBR. FRBR is too rigid. Items can only be attached at the lowest level. ISAD can skip levels. They used identifiers e.g. [BIBFRAME WORK] which opens up record with linked authorities. Then there is an annotation attached to those records – internal or external – (looks like book cover and Amazon like descriptions) At their test side there is a visualizer to show how are the links are working. What we are doing with BF has to be woven into the fabric of the internet See final slide

Jean Godby – OCLC BIBFRAME and SCHEMA.org being used by search engine suppliers There is a report they have released on BIBRAME listserv and at OCLC: Godby, Carol Jean. 2013. The Relationship between BIBFRAME and the Schema.org 'Bib Extensions' Model: A Working Paper. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Research http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2013/2013-05.pdf

Why did OCLC chose to work in Schema.org – need to increase visibility of library resources in the major search engines, +, + Initial release of 1.2 mil records with Linked Data markup based on Schema.org. There are links to authority data. Began by trying to work strictly in Schema.org vocabularies. Then identify vocabularies that need to be added to the Schema.org ontology. Schema.org is broad but very shallow. BIBFRAME is a constellation of particular interested parties that want a set of deep vocabularies but not very broad. Analyzing them shows at a high level, some terms are similar though they don’t always mean the same thing, e.g. person and person. Representation of FRBR works and expressions in Schema.org – how to do this? There is an experimenting group working on a SchemaBibEx – check slide Some things OCLC has been able to model in a different way than Schema.org They have determined they need to drill down in data; move beyond the Dublin Core-like description of Schema.org http://www.W3.org/community/schmabibex

1:00-2:30 MCP-E350 RDA Update Forum Notes Panelists will provide updates to RDA as well as resources to consult for future updates after implementation. Scheduled presenters include: Beacher Wiggins (Library of Congress), Phil Schreur (Chair PCC), Glenn Patton (OCLC), John Attig (JSC update), and Troy Linker (ALA Publishing). MARC 250 repeatable 008/20 new music values 028 parse qualifying info for the identifier then ended up looking at 015, 024, 027 Authority 368 – other attributes of person and corporate body – added person and a $d for title of person www.loc.gov/marc/RDAinMARC.html

Reconciled MARC relator terms with the RDA list; 38 terms added and 2 deprecated; reconciled terms for concept favoring the RDA term and included the unused terms as references; revised definitions to reconcile RDA and MARC using the RDA definitions; added relationships between broader and narrower terms FRBR and BIBFRAME levels indicated in the Linked Data Service (ID) version via collections RDA appendix I terms specified in ID General RDA role types indicated via ID collections, e.g. creator, contributor, manufacturer, etc. Linkage with DC terms maintained http://www.loc.gov/marc annmarcrdarelators.html http://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/tn13053143l.html

Linked data service view: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators http://www.loc.gov/marc/relators

Library of Congress The 3 national libraries have moved to RDA. All LC records are now RDA. 400 staff were trained. There are some specialized areas still looking at how they will apply RDA They are taking steps to remain in sync with PCC practices. Music, Archives, Law Corrected to RDA structure - 370,000 authority records; earlier 435,000. It was all done with Gary Strawn’s assistance. LC then went through full database and updated 668,000 records to RDA (finished in June) Both bibliographic and authority records have been redistributed. Please attribute that the records came from LC but otherwise free to use. Policy and Standards Division is working on documentation to fine-tune it. Changes will be shared. Copy Cataloging will accept what they find except authorized entries will be checked/edited Next big test with RDA in BIBFRAME and will be looking for testers again. No determined timeframe, although people are already trying to put bib data in BIBFRAME. LC hasn’t made a decision like OCLC to add things like 336-337-338. May be only ad hoc unless a program is developed that could be safely programmatically applied.

John Attig Kathy Glennan will be the next ALA representative to JSC RDA next release in July, then Nov. May release: French and German translations are available to all users. All chapters are now reworded. Fast track changes: relationship designators. They are documented on JSC page 6JSC/Sec/8 and 6JSC/Sec/9 Changes approved in Nov. by JSC will be in the July release along with fast track changes, included typo corrections, example corrections, and new relationship designators. Check the update history list of significant changes in the Toolkit RDA continuous revision process….

Proposals Variant titles as variant access points Instructions for treaties Color content 7.17 Capitalization of hyphenated compounds (appendix A) Substantial revision of Appendix K (relationship designators for relationships between person, families and corporate bodies) Changes based on new version of the Chicago Manual of Style Discussion papers Statement of responsibility vs. performer, narration, presenter and artistic and/or technical credits – should these be given as statements of responsibility and access points Machine-actionable data elements Instructions for describing relationships Subjects in RDA Kathy Glennan is next JSC representative. http://www.rda-jsc.org/news.html http://alcts.ala.org/ccdablog [email protected] If you want CC:DA to discuss something contact a CC:DA member or liaison The JSC meeting is Nov 4-9 so approved changes should come out in 2014 Subject analysis (how to consider creation of a subject) should be in the RDA chapter on subject relationships (26?)

OCLC – Glenn Patton Revised OCLC Policy Statement came out Mar. 31. http://www.oclc.org/en-US/rda/new-policy.html RDA is not required; WorldCat continues to be a master record database, policy attempts to look forward to a post-MARC world; policy attempts to balance dual roles of WorldCat as a catalog and repository of bibliographic data. http://www.oclc.org/en-US/events/2013/rdawebinar041113.html discusses the policy, hybrid records (what can be added to AACR bibs), and conversion plans

New macrobooks: http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/connexion/oclc.mbk

READ: technical bulletin 262 http://www.oclc.org/support/worldwide/en_us/services/worldcat/documentation/tb/262.html

Updating WorldCat Updated versions of LC/NACO name authority records distributed in March 2013 Updated versions of LCSH subject authority records in April 2013 More than 2 million bib records with controlled headings were updated Now working on updating access points that are not controlled

LC‘s revised records were not loaded into OCLC. Many records in OCLC had been revised by member libraries so they instead are sticking to their original plans to revise certain types of records with certain fields. When libraries had enhanced records with validation links, the records automatically updated so the LC changes would be moot.

Most changes from technical bulletin 261 and 262 are now in the Bibliographic Formats & Standards. They are starting to include more RDA examples. https://www.oclc.og/rda.en.html

Revisions to records will be announced in OCLC-CAT Can email: [email protected] [email protected]

OCLC looking at how Schema.org (general) can work with BIBFRAME (more detailed)

Philip Schreur – PCC SEE HANDOUT 3 of the task groups: Access Points for Expressions – PCC conform to LC practice as minimum but allow careful catalogers judgment to included additional information; Hybrid Record Guidelines – usually not desirable to recatalog bibs some RDA elements can be very positive and therefore identified enhancements that can be added; Relationship Designators – recommend use of RDA but others may be used. They will be setting up a mechanism for suggesting additional designators. Task Group on Authorities in a non-MARC Environment is addressing identities in both an RDA and linked data environment. Part 1 – alternatives to undifferentiated name authorities. Authorities in a non-MARC environment will require URI’s. This will involve resources outside the LC authorities. They are looking at the role of faceted displays. They are also looking at how to identify relationship with again resources outside our local environments. LOOK FOR TG DESCRIPTION All PCC records must have RDA access points 677 fields generally mean the entry is not conformant with RDA RDA series – email for questions [email protected]

Troy Linker – RDA Toolkit Rewording is complete They document the RDA fast-track changes & LC-PCC Policy Statement changes. The AACR2 in Catalogers Desktop points to RDA which has AACR2 in it The toolkit with have an upgraded workflow and map editor Will add index back in for AACR Improve integration with the RDA registry Will include other policy statements (National Library of Australia) Will improve bookmarks Sales are up 169% over last year. Continues to run at a loss but expected to break even on a yearly basis beginning 2015 Next print Sept. 2013 They are going to experiment with an RDA ebook. Links would work but not have PCC policy statements and be updated annually. This would work on Kindle, Nook, etc.

1:00-5:30 MCP-Hall A, meetg rm C ALCTS By-laws & Constitution After the RDA update forum I planned to catch up with this, but they were gone. It is the committee I will be attending next ALA.

4:30-5:30 MCP – E351 PCC Participants implementation 2012-12-16 "Where the Wild Things Are." … featuring four innovative projects involving PCC institutions or members: Penn's VCAT and facets, the latest developments at ISNI, web archiving, and a linked data project focused on jazz.

Relationship designators and facets: vcat – Beth Picknally Camden They continue to use $4 for some types of entries, e.g. Director, Producer, etc. Their catalog can’t have very many facets because it slows down the system. They made a separate catalog for 25,000 video recordings because they needed more facets for $4. They used the set of $4’s they chose to always use as facets and display a label for each, e.g. Director: They will switch to RDA terms. They are going to use style sheets to display the new terms rather than changing the bibs.

ISNI – Thurston Young International Standard Name Identifier ISNI will support linked data. OCLC (Leiden) is responsible assignment agency. ISO 20779 – identifies public identities of all persons and organizations playing a role in created works 16-digit unique identifier Acts as a bridge identifier across multiple domains: rights management, more accurate discovery services spanning all domains, provide an infrastructure for generating links It does bridging – matching following process in VIAF 6,531,791 assigned. ISNI is doing matching using 3 or more VIAF sources matched. Corrections are made and fed back into VIAF Unique name – 3,223,809 Linked data: http://isni-url.oclc.nl/isni/ Schema.org can retrieve data with isni IDs There is consideration of loading ISNIs into NACO with the British Library responsible for management ISNI is working with many different sources and different metadata – libraries, vendors, organizations, etc. Isni is working on parallel developments for discrete audiences: researchers – articles theses, isni in relation to ORCID (open researcher & contributor ID), institutional….., music ETOC and other uncontrolled sources: the challenge – looking at 30 million articles and 90 million names ORCID is alive people; there is also ODIN including dead people Ringgold – first institutional ID registration organization CHECK OUT http://www.isni.org NOTE: this is cool. It fits into what I think would be cool with authority records. Authority records should be able to be used for my library to show images when available for an author, pertinent data, etc. in a knowledge graph and then list books and e-resources we have. The problem is names in a discovery tool like Primo have different forms of the name but couldn’t we use VIAF to cross check works with names. ISNI is working on that! Cool!

Web Archives as research library collections. Alex Thurman – Columbia University They are doing something like Internet Archive but with more quality control

Linked jazz project – Hilary Thorsen – Stanford Linked jazz project is an application of linked open data (LOD) technology to digitize archival jazz history They are taking a new approach – it relates data between different repositories Includes transcriptions of oral interviews Created a name directory and created name triples Subject-predicate-object Take five – creator – Dave Brubeck URI – URI – URI They queried dbpedia with sparql to find data The linked jazz API outputs in JSON, RDF triples, gephi GEXF files http://linkedjazz.org/api

MONDAY—July 1

8:30-11:30 MCP-S100c ALA II

International Relations Committee #18.3

Committee on Organization #27 Two resolutions were proposed. One was to reduce the number of committee members. Approved. The other is to retire the current Committee Information Update Form, and ask that each ALA committee and Council committee provide a semi-annual report listing a list of issues to be included. Approved. If they meet annually and are done, just refer to the previous report.

Policy Monitoring Committee #17.1 Three action items were presented to revise the text for these items in the ALA policy manual: 1. Protecting Library User Confidentiality, and 2. Guidelines for Preparation of Resolutions to Council. The items were approved earlier, but committee has identified where in the manual the items go. 3. Membership meetings.

Constitution and Bylaws Committee #25 The Committee had a request for approval of application for affiliate status for the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Otorrora. The other action item was related to confidentiality which said “the category to which personal member belongs, except Honorary and Life Members, shall not be specified in the Directory”. Since there is no directory, that part of the statement should be removed. Text regarding filling vacancies was reworded to obtain consistency in wording.

International Relations Committee #18.3 WIPO Treaty for Improved Access for People Who are Bind, Visually Impaired, and with other Print Disabilities. At Midwinter Council passed a resolution supporting the WIPO Treat to assist the Library Copyright Alliance in its efforts to get the U.S. delegation to WIPO to support a treaty that will achieve the goals of libraries. The work now needs to be done in the US Congress. In Canada, a code of conduct was issued by LAC that appeared to muzzle staff from involvement in organizations. The issuer of the code has been let go, so the code presumably no longer restricts librarians from involvement in organizations but has not been removed.

Freedom to Read Foundation #22 Check FTRF.org for their report

Resolution on Prayer in ALA meetings #44 Resolved, that the American Library Association adopt as policy the following statement: The American Library Association, as a secular institution in a country that is increasingly diverse religiously, refrains from having public prayers during its meetings. Moments of silence may be observed during meetings to honor a specific person or event. Approved

Resolution in support of whistlerblower Bradley Manning #38 Resolved, that the American Library Association opposes the prosecution of Bradley Manning. A motion was made to refer to the Committee on Legislation. They are already working on something and we should see it at Council III. Referred to COL and IFC

Resolution on Library Service to the Community in a Natural Disaster #41 Resolved Resolved, that the American Library Association (ALA), on behalf of its members:  Acknowledges that many libraries across the country have provided library and emergency services in disasters including storms, fires, earthquakes and floods and applauds those actions;  Recognizes the significant contributions of libraries and library staff who have provided effective emergency response/recovery services, and responded to the needs of their communities following hurricanes Sandy and Irene in ways that go above and beyond the regular call of duty;  Requests that ALA Divisions research library needs and capacity in order to provide effective e- government and emergency response/recovery services as an essential part of library missions  Shall direct a letter acknowledging the work and contributions of libraries and library staff to the State Chapters in the affected states of New York, New Jersey, Vermont and Connecticut at this time to be passed on to the appropriate parties, and in the future ensure that such a letter is sent whenever libraries lead community recovery. Passed

Resolution on Divestment of Holdings in Fossil Fuel Companies, CD #42 Revised 7/1/13 Resolved that the ALA on behalf of its members: Begin divesting in the fossil fuel industry by excluding our three holdings in the “Filthy Fifteen” named in the Endowment Trustees Information report to BARC that have little or no significant impact in the short term in ALA. This is being supported by criticism of fracking and the goal is to “attack” such industries – a negative action on the North Dakota economy. Much support was voiced for a greener earth which I do support, but the technical ability of the Endowment Trustees to pick away at how money is invested, which might be impossible, I believe this really has little effect. Greener earth can be approached other ways than this resolution. I voted against, and it failed.

Motion to refer CD #39 Support of Whistleblower Edward Snowden to IFC and COL Already tweeted and Facebook’d that ALA supports this.

1:00-4:00 INTER-Valencia SAC speaker Eric Miller: Future of Subject Analysis in the BIBFRAME Model He sees the work on BIBFRAME as trying to develop a platform on which to include our data in the web. There are key fundamental principles to the web but when used cooperatively, can do amazing things. It is uniquely identifiable things that have a single-directional link to another thing. Underlying it all is a protocol – http. You send a request, the application receives, and if it finds a something okay to send back, you see the data. In the mean time in the background a little bookmark tracks the activity. These logs can track “if-then” and work as web triggers. It is being integrated into how we use the web. It starts to make predictable links between things that have been searched. Based on certain actions, there are triggers to do certain other things. E.g. Twitter can be fed to Facebook. This is a powerful way to do actionable things in the Web. BIBFRAME – the network of it is where the triggers can work for us. We as a group have the opportunity to work together. BIBFRAME is a core model for defining web control points…. Ex: Andrea catalogs 101 tips for supporting campers with autism; ‘camps for children with mental disabilities’ and ‘autism spectrum disorders’ are okay subjects but not quite. So in BIBFRAME she describes the book, connects to the author, to the publisher, and she creates a new local subject. She can define it and relate it to the already defined subjects. If a user follows from her term to the authorized headings, it leaves bread crumbs. In the background you can see that all this occurred and others could use them too – hence they are shared even though not in the controlled vocabulary. Once you see this, you could prepare a formal new subject request and when you see the choices others made, that could inform your proposal. Once the decision is made for a new heading, it can be propagated back. This is not just recasting MARC. It is about taking advantage of the power of the web.

Is provenance part of this and is that what the bookmark collects? Provenance is not really part of the triggering – it is just pointing. But you have created a new subject with a new identifier but through linking it could come back and update it once formally approved. Our ILSs don’t do well with our hierarchical relationships that we have already developed. Will BIBFRAME do a better job because of the links? You look up something and should be able to follow the links. BIBFRAME is trying to be broader than just libraries that can cause an issue with specifics in a particular community. There are more off-the-shelf tools available to us if we are using web linking rather than the current structure in our ILSs using MARC records. We need to separate the data issue from the interface issue. Couldn’t we search “songs” and then see a list of other terms in our hierarchies or have check boxes to select several, etc. The user may be interested in terms from several vocabularies, eg. LCSH and lcgft and aat. [ How these get connected is a semantic issue – when does one mean the other, and how specific do we need to define that? ] How can we apply patterns in the subject manual and which terms fall under them and reapply the principles for each to other terms. What about people who click wrong things but the bread crumbs have tracked that – right? There is something called “stickiness” which analyzes when that happens and can show where you need to improve your interface and/or data. There is testing in industries that can study this. When we have a CD compilation we have never been able to link a subject to the title that is that subject? No, unless you go ahead and identify it, i.e. create work records for each (and work records can have subjects). So when you catalog the CD you have identifiable parts and you identify the whole. LC has being trying tackle some contents notes and see if they can create a work record for each and you could then attach the subject to. “Functional granularity of description” Now what about expressions with performers that are different? John Attig brought up the fact that many of the relationships we talk are about are semantic relationships. The socializing aspect of how we utilize the web to contruct the BIBFRAME platform will push the boundaries – that’s good. The meanings we care about are in work records, in subject records, and then your MARC record is an assemblage of those and how will BIBFRAME show the semantics? It has control points for where you graft these things into. In the BIBFRAME context there is no primary entry point thought an interface that may chose one of them. [But doesn’t this give us a choice in how we design interfaces or even given the user the choice of where to start?] BIBFRAME - Make the simple things simple; make the complex things possible. At the W3C level a person can be something can enter into a contract (law), but we think of a human who writes, [etc.] [ BIBFRAME is BIBLIOGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK so we are defining in that realm.]

Conclusion The web is the most powerful communication ever conceived The web is becoming the powerful data management platform ever imagined BIBFRAME provides a set of constructs to advantage of the Web to enable Libraries to cooperate far more effectively than ever before

Demographic proposal – both fields possible in bibliographic and authority records but for BIBFRAME it makes most sense in Work/Expression authority records. 385 audience 386 creator While trying to work on genres it became apparent that some existing terms aren’t going to work very well. Chinese-American poets mean you have poets, Chinese, Americans. How do get natural language phrases without subdivision? Categories that the terms/concepts belong to, could be in the record. What she has brought to SAC hasn’t been yet approved by LC to actually go forward. If it seems doable she will go back and try to get approval. At this time there aren’t very often appropriate terms at all. The idea would be the vocabulary would start based on LCSH, but once established it would be open to the SACO proposal process. Adam thought hierarchies should be included in these terms, i.e. BT NT – then BIBFRAME would have relationships to work with. What about some terms that could have multiple roles and cases where pre- coordinated strings are semantically necessary but the proposal is avoiding strings. In the authority record there would be pre-fix to the number, 040 $e (f), … but what about the tag? Janis asked if she could put it somewhere other that MARC and Kevin Ford said to put it in MARC. If we put them in 150 will some systems shove them into 650 rather than the 385 and 386. What about geographic descriptors – American poets – Californians or do we use something like 751 California, Calif.

Library of Congress report to SAC summary: Integrated Library System. The Library is working to resolve performance problems in the redesigned LC Online Catalog. That new interface is available to staff and patrons at: catalog2.loc.gov The Library is planning to upgrade to Voyager 8.2 later in 2013. Cataloging Publications. LC is transitioning to online-only publication of its cataloging documentation and will cease printing new editions of its subject headings and classification schedules, and other cataloging publications. Instead, LC will provide free downloadable PDFs of these titles ID's Linked Data Service (ID/LDS) Project. Twenty-one new vocabularies related to the PREMIS standard for preservation metadata were added to the Linked Data Service - Authorities & Vocabularies (http://id.loc.gov). This portal is primarily for developers to enable them to programmatically interact (as “linked data”) with vocabularies commonly found in standards promulgated by LC. New Bibliographic Framework Initiative. The Library of Congress published on the Web in November 2012 a high level model for BFI: “Bibliographic Framework as a Web of Data: Linked Data Model and Supporting Services” at http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/bibframe-112312.html. LC also made available for download two software code sets that convert current MARCXML records to BIBFRAME. The Library now also offers a demonstration area at http://bibframe.org/demos/ Two discussion papers, on BIBFRAME Authority and the BIBFRAME Annotation Model, were issued in May 2013 and are available at URL http://bibframe.org. Cataloging in Publication Program E-Books Pilot. Since the ALA Midwinter Meeting in January 2013, LC has moved forward in developing a mechanism for ingesting e-books delivered through the Cataloging in Publication program for preservation purposes and eventual access by users on-site. Cataloger’s Desktop. Several RDA-related resources have been added to Cataloger’s Desktop to assist with RDA cataloging implementation. The latest addition is RDA training resources RDA Implementation. LC fully implemented RDA: Resource Description & Access for all authority work and most bibliographic records on March 31, 2013. Course materials included trainee manuals in Microsoft Word for lecture and discussion, complementary PowerPoint presentations, and online quizzes to enhance retention and recall. All course materials and supporting documentation are being shared freely with the cataloging world through the Catalogers’ Learning Workshop website at http://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/ . BIBCO RDA webinars following the use of online RDA training modules available at http://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/RDA%20training%20materials/index.html Library of Congress-Program for Cooperative Cataloging Policy Statements. The first update to the Library of Congress-Program for Cooperative Cataloging Policy Statements (LC-PCC PS) for 2013 was published in May. Programmatic Changes to the LC/NACO Authority File for RDA. Changes to the LC/NACO Name Authority File known as “Phase 2” of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) project to make certain headings acceptable under RDA, were begun on March 4 and successfully completed on March 27, 2013. A total of 371,942 name authority records were changed. For details on the types of changes made to headings, see the website of the PCCAHITG at http://files.library.northwestern.edu/public/pccahitg, or a summary of those changes at http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/pdf/lcnaf_rdaphase.pdf . Classification and Shelflisting Manual PSD has now completed its review of the CSM in light of RDA instructions. Revisions to the instruction sheets that were most heavily impacted by the changes have been posted in PDF form on ABA’s website at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/csm_instruction_sheets.html. They are: F 175 (Editions); F 275 (Biography); F 603 (Government Documents); F 632 (Literary Authors); F 633 (Literary Authors: Subarrangement of Works); F 634 (Literary Collections); G 100 (Filing Rules); G 140 (Dates); G 145 (Editions); G 150 (Translations/Texts in Parallel Languages); G 220 (Corporate Bodies); G 230 (Conferences, Congresses, Meetings, Etc.); and G 340 (Criticism/Commentaries). Revisions to LCSH Due to RDA Phase 2 A list of all of the headings that were revised as part of this project may be found at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/subjects-RDA-changes.html. Fictitious and Legendary Characters, and Animals with Proper Names. Historically, headings for fictitious and legendary characters and animals with proper names have been established as subject headings in LCSH. With RDA, these entities can now be considered creators or contributors to works. According to the current LC-PCC Policy Statements, when a fictitious or legendary character, or named animal, is a creator or contributor, a name authority record should be made in addition to the subject heading. That instruction will change with the July 9, 2013 update to the RDA Toolkit. The new policy will state that a name authority record should be created if an individual character or an animal with a proper name is needed for the descriptive access point. LC has been collaborating with the Music Library Association on medium of performance vocabulary, Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus for Music (LCMPT). The vocabulary is intended to be used, at least initially, for two bibliographic purposes: 1) to retrieve music by its medium of performance in library catalogs, as is now done by the controlled vocabulary Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH); and 2) to record the element “medium of performance” of musical works, as represented in individual music resources cataloged according to RDA: Resource Description and Access (RDA). 4:00-5:30 HIL-Buckingham Rm Chapter Councilors Forum Discussed: reduction in size of Council – we of course believe the state chapter councilors play a key roe and should be retained; chapter relevance in the Chapter Relations program; Declaration of Library Rights – just how are we to use it – just in state convention or in our cities or what?; whistleblower resolutions we kept seeing with revisions we didn’t know how got there; how are we to vote – our “conscience” which I interpret to mean what I believe best serves libraries in North Dakota; listservs – be careful about replying to everyone when a person is just asking for input

6:00-7:00, 10:00—12:00 Aleph fiscal year roll over completed

TUESDAY—July 2

7:45-9:15 MCP-S100c ALA Council III

Treasurer’s report #13.2 In fiscal year 2013 we have implemented a budget reduction of $1.9 million mostly due to losses in publishing; 2014 budget was reduced by $1 mil due to expected losses in conferences. ALA will hold open 33 positions and not give raises. Our budget must be focused on our programmatic priorities. Budgetary ceiling will be $28,821,439. The budgetary ceilings are increased for Divisions due to 2 having conferences this year. The Roundtables have 3.5 times their asset balance so Divisions and Roundtables are in good financial shape. Motion was to approve budgetary ceilings. 63,944,617. Jim Neal listed a number of ideas for considering the future of financial stability for ALA. They were very good. Check ALA treasurer’s site.

Elections Council on Committees Julius C Jefferson, Roberto Carlos Delgadillo, John C. DeSantis, Ebony M Henry Planning and Budget Pamela Hickson-Stevenson, Patty Dudley, Elena Rosenfeld

Committee on Legislation #20.3-5 Resolution in CD 19.2 and 20.4 – that the whistleblowers resolutions that were referred to COL and IFC be replaced by CD#19.2 and 20.4 and be adopted. Resolved, that the American Library Association (ALA): 1. Reaffirms its unwavering support for the fundamental principles that undergird our free and democratic society, including a system of public accountability, government transparency, and oversight that supports people's right to know about and participate in our government, 2. In light of present revelations related to NSA's surveillance activities conducted pursuant to orders issued by the Foreign Intelligent Surveillance Court (FISC) under Sections 215 and 702 of the USA PATRIOT Act the American Library Association calls upon the U.S. Congress, President Obama, and the Courts to reform our nation's climate of secrecy, overclassification, and secret law regarding national security and surveillance, to align with these democratic principles; 3. Urges the U.S. Congress and President Obama to provide authentic protections that prevent government intimidation and criminal prosecution of government employees and private contractors who make lawful disclosures of wrong doing in the intelligence community; and be further resolved; 4. Calls upon the public to engage in and our members to lead public dialogues discussing the right to privacy, open government and balancing civil liberties and national security; 5. Encourages the public to support bills and other proposals that both secure and protect our rights to privacy, free expression and free association and promote a more open, transparent government and be further resolved, that 6. Expresses its thanks and appreciation to the members of Congress who work to protect our privacy and civil liberties. Frustration over the process was expressed as it came up because it came up multiple times and was referred and was confusing to councilors attending the meeting. Those that felt we should be protecting Manning and Snowden, were upset because they supported those resolutions and this one eliminates them. However, the new resolution elegantly states ALA’s position. Approved.

Resolution urging Congress to Designate the Government Printing Office as the Lead Agency to manage the lifecycle of digital United States Government Information #20.5 Resolved, that the American Library Association (ALA): 1. and web sites; 2. urges Congress authorize the Government Printing Office to develop and administer standards and procedures for the United States federal government which include rules for dismantling sites and archiving web content, including the preservation of all pertinent data protocols, documentation, and software programs for evaluating and manipulating the content for permanent public access; 3. urges Congress require that the Government Printing Office consult with the United States federal publishing agencies, the National Libraries, and professional library and archiving groups in the development of these standards and procedures; 4. urges Congress provide the Government Printing Office sufficient funding to handle the archiving of web content, to perform its duties on an ongoing basis and additional funding as necessary to fully assist agencies when they are forced to decommission a web site. COL has a task force on government documents. Their work is on ALA CONNECT

Intellectual Freedom Committee #19 Resolution Supporting Librarians Sued for Doing Their Professional Duty #19.3 Resolved, that the American Library Association: Most strongly urges publishers to refrain from actions such as filing libel suits when in disagreement with librarians who have publically shared their professional opinions and instead to rely upon the free exchange of views in the marketplace of ideas to defend their interests as publishers

Patriot Act 215 report. This had been request on the listserv. When will we get the requested report about the work of the Washington Office’s lobbying activity?

Resolution to Decrease Printing for Council Meetings #50 Resolved, that the American Library Association, on behalf of its members: 1) Requests that the ALA Executive Director to develop and implement an opt-in program for Councilors to elect to receive electronic-only Council documents and reduce the number of regularly printed copies of documents.

15918 registered 4319 complimentary 6125 exhibitors Total: 26,362 attendees

All of the Annual Conference Council documents are now posted on the Council page at: http://www.ala.org/aboutala/node/567.

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Faceted Subject Access Interest Group

FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) Activity Report ALCTS CCS Subject Analysis Committee 2013 Annual Meeting

FAST is an enumerative faceted subject heading schema derived from the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). Easier to apply and capable of successful application by non-professionals, FAST provides a rich LCSH vocabulary that is available as a post-coordinate system in a Web environment. OCLC Research has been working to develop FAST for over a decade. A range of prototype applications is now available:  assignFAST This Web Service, new in July 2012 and currently being integrated into production, automates the manual selection of FAST Subjects based on autosuggest technology. http://experimental.worldcat.org/fast/assignfast  mapFAST A Google Maps mashup that provides map-based access to bibliographic records using FAST geographic authorities.  mapFAST allows users to access FAST headings for specific locations, as well as FAST headings for surrounding locations that also are FAST subjects.  Top three user countries: United States, Netherlands, Spain  Available at http://experimental.worldcat.org/mapfast/  We recently released a mobile version, accessible via browser at http://experimental.worldcat.org/mapfast/mobile/, and also available as an Android app.  SearchFAST searchFAST is a full-feature user interface for identifying and accessing FASTauthority records. http://fast.oclc.org/searchfast/  Top three user countries: New Zealand, United States, Netherlands  Available at: http://fast.oclc.org/searchfast/  FAST as Linked Data This experimental Linked Open Data service provides access to the FAST data set under the Open Data Commons Attribution License.  Total headings: 1.7 million  Facets: – Personal names: 704,143 – Corporate names: 357,625 – Events: 11,915 – Uniform titles: 61,633 – Chronological: 676 – Topical: 392,593 – Geographic: 148,722 – Form/Genre: 1,905  Deprecated/deleted: 46,719

– More information: http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/fast.html

 Access FAST as Linked Data at: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/

 The FAST data set is available for download at: http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/fast/download.html

 FAST in WorldCat FAST headings have been successfully added to an off-line copy of OCLC's WorldCat database.  WorldCat contained 1,678,279 distinct FAST headings (excluding chronological) each controlled with a single authority record.  WorldCat contained 26,425,717 distinct LCSH headings (including names valid as subjects) with approximately 7.5% controlled by a single authority record. For additional details, visit the FAST activity page at http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/fast/ or contact either Ed O’Neill at [email protected] or Eric Childress at [email protected].