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Revision as of 14:51, 7 February 2023
, 14:51, 7 February 2023Policy on levels of cataloguing treatment 2021
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==Policy on levels of cataloguing treatment 2021==
===Intent of Document===
The intent of this document is to share Library and Archives Canada’s (LAC) new Policy on Levels of Cataloguing Treatment with Description Division staff and other interested employees at LAC, as well as senior management. Once approved, a version of this document will be developed to be posted on LAC’s website and shared with Canadian libraries.
===Introduction===
The cataloguing records created within the Description Division of Library and Archives Canada (LAC) serve a variety of purposes, including:
*to identify and provide access to published items in the LAC collection;
*to record the existence of Canadian publications within the national bibliography;
*to provide MARC-based metadata that follow internationally recognized standards and that can be re-used by Canadian and international libraries in their local systems and in their contributions to the National Union Catalogue (Voilà), to WorldCat, and to other shared databases;
*to provide cataloguing metadata to support Canada's inter-library loan infrastructure;
*to provide a valuable source of reference and research for Canadian studies; and
*to ensure that related works are brought together (by subject, creators' names, titles, geographic area, etc.) when searching Aurora and other large bibliographic databases.
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The policy on levels of cataloguing treatment was first introduced by the former National Library of Canada in 1996 and was revised in 2003 and again in 2009. The present version (2021) was created to reflect the environmental shift brought by LAC’s transition to OCLC WorldShare Management Services (WMS) in 2018 as well as the decreased ratio of cataloguing resources to publications received through various channels of acquisition.
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In 2018, Library and Archives Canada decommissioned its in-house integrated library system AMICUS and replaced it with WMS. As a result, LAC’s bibliographic data were migrated into WorldCat, a shared bibliographic environment where member libraries can use, enhance, and enrich other member libraries’ records.
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Furthermore, authority work is now done in two separate files:
*Library of Congress/NACO Authority File (LC/NAF) for English-language authority records. This file is shared with other members of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) as part of the Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO) Program.
*Canadiana Name Authorities in French for French-language authority records. This file is shared with Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) and member libraries of the Bureau de coopération interuniversitaire (BCI) as part of the Francophone Name Authority Programme (PFAN).
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This shared cataloguing environment allows LAC to leverage the contributions from other libraries to improve the efficiency of its own processes. However, as a consequence, LAC has relinquished some control over the cataloguing metadata it creates.
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