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Library and Archives Canada (LAC) helps Canadians gain a better understanding of who they are. It serves as the continuing memory of the federal government and its institutions and as the guardian of Canada’s distant past and recent history.<br>
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These pages contain information regarding cataloguing standards, practices and policies as they apply to published heritage    at Library and Archives Canada's (LAC). This is a working tool for LAC cataloguing employees, as well as  a resource for all library professionals who would like to learn from it. For further information, please contact 
 
These pages contain information regarding cataloguing standards, practices and policies as they apply to published heritage    at Library and Archives Canada's (LAC). This is a working tool for LAC cataloguing employees, as well as  a resource for all library professionals who would like to learn from it. For further information, please contact 
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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.
 
===Context===
 
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:  
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*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 [https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/naco/index.html 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 [[PFAN - Francophone Name Authority Program]].
 
 
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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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===Principles===
 
===Cataloguing priorities===
 
==Bibliographic work==
 
===New records===
 
===Existing records===
 
===Other workflows===
 
=====Direct-to-shelf=====
 
=====Metadata ingest=====
 
===Backlog cataloguing===
 
===Canadiana number===
 
==Authority work==
 
==Monitoring and review==
 
==Appendix A - Defninition of level of cataloguing treatment==
 
==Appendix A.1 - Required data elements by level of cataloguing treatment==
 
==Appendix A.2 - Additional required data elements by type of resource==
 
 
 
==Procedure 2==
 
==Procedure 3==
 

Latest revision as of 16:21, 24 March 2023

Intro Policy Statements Library Classification Schedules Authority Records (to come) Subject Cataloguing Descriptive Cataloguing Procedures (to come) News and Updates (to come) Other Documentation


Library and Archives Canada (LAC) helps Canadians gain a better understanding of who they are. It serves as the continuing memory of the federal government and its institutions and as the guardian of Canada’s distant past and recent history.

These pages contain information regarding cataloguing standards, practices and policies as they apply to published heritage at Library and Archives Canada's (LAC). This is a working tool for LAC cataloguing employees, as well as a resource for all library professionals who would like to learn from it. For further information, please contact normesdecatalogage-cataloguingstandards@bac-lac.gc.ca.

For more information about Library Services, we invite you to consult our website: Library and Archives Canada