LC Authority record error report form

I had difficulty finding the Library of Congress Online Catalog/Authority Record Error Report Form on the LC website so I made certain to bookmark it.

 

LCDGT terms for gender in authority records

If you create or edit authority records, you should be aware that RDA no longer incorporates the terms “male,” “female,” and “not known” for gender, and that PCC policy is now to use terms from LCDGT (Library of Congress Demographic Group Categories Term and Code List) in field 375 ($2 lcdgt).

You can access LCDGT from ClassWeb.  If you do not have ClassWeb access, you can retrieve a PDF document from the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate home page, though it will be slightly less current.  Netanel Ganin of Brandeis University has also posted the terms in a more navigable page in the style of ClassWeb, and he plans to keep his list up to date with each update.

The terms in LCDGT can potentially be used in any setting where you need controlled, single-facet vocabulary for age, educational level, ethnic or cultural identification, gender, language, medical or psychological condition or disability, national or regional affiliation, occupation or field of activity, religion, sexual orientation, or other social group identification; so we may have occasion to refer to it in the future even if we are not assigning gender designations in authority records.

(Gender in authority records and in RDA will be discussed in a little more depth in a forthcoming post on Flaming Catheads.)

 

Illinois school closings and Yearbooks

If you have a large (or not so large) collection of high school yearbooks that you have to catalog and you can’t find the school website check here. Illinois High School Glory Days website  “is a collaborative effort to preserve Illinois History, as reflected in high schools which no longer function…” Unfortunately I discovered it with the last yearbook of the project I had to catalog.