NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Barbara Vaughan, Column Editor
MIC UPDATE
The MIC: Moving Image Collections portal is now live and ready for review and comment from the archival moving image community <http://mic.imtc.gatech.edu>. MIC is built on a portal structure, to customize information for its diverse audiences. Choose a portal to find resources and perform more complex searches for moving images (Collections Explore) and organizations (Archive Explore).
We continue to welcome entries for MIC's Archive Directory, an international online guide to moving image repositories. Whether you are a moving image archive, or simply hold a few film titles as part of a larger general collection, we invite you to register your organization with MIC. By listing your institution, you join a groundbreaking initiative to provide access to moving images worldwide, and contribute to further collaboration, research, and mentoring in the archival moving image community. Any institution or individual holding archival moving image materials is eligible for a Directory entry. To complete an Archive Directory form with contact information, services and collection descriptions, and cataloging and preservation activities, go to the MIC site and choose 'List your Archive' under MIC Spotlight, or click here: <http://mic.u.washington.edu>.
Please take a look around, let us know what you think, and have fun! We welcome and appreciate your comments and questions. Please send them to <mic@loc.gov>.
[originally posted by:]
Jane D. Johnson
MIC Project Manager, Library of Congress
Phone: (732) 828-8918
E-mail: <jjohnson@loc.gov>
AACR2 ADDED TO CATALOGER DESKTOP ON THE WEB
The Cataloging Distribution Service of the Library of Congress and the co-publishers of AACR are pleased to announce agreement on the inclusion of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd edition (AACR2) in the Web version of Cataloger's Desktop. AACR2 has been in the CD-ROM version of Cataloger's Desktop for many years.
Beginning April 1, 2004, AACR2 was added to the Web version of Cataloger's Desktop, which provides the most widely used cataloging documentation resources in an integrated online system. The Web version of Cataloger's Desktop was in beta testing until April 30.
The agreement to include AACR2 in Cataloger's Desktop on the Web was signed by representatives of LC and the American Library Association on behalf of the publishers of AACR, the American Library Association, the Canadian Library Association, and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. "Now that AACR2 is included in Cataloger's Desktop on the Web, catalogers can consult over the Web practically all the resources they need to do their job", said Bruce Johnson, CDS Team Leader for Cataloger's Desktop Development. Kathryn Mendenhall, Chief of CDS, noted that "the addition of AACR2 to the Web version of Cataloger's Desktop represents a big leap forward in Web-based cataloging for librarians all over the world".
The rules in AACR2 form the basis for descriptive cataloging practice in the English-speaking library community and beyond. Their inclusion in Cataloger's Desktop on the Web ensures that Web-based cataloging will employ standardized description, which in turn makes the cataloging interchangeable from one catalog to the next. When the Web version of Cataloger's Desktop becomes available as a subscription publication in June 2004, AACR2 will be available for around-the-clock online consultation.
Contact:
Peter Seligman, Cataloging Distribution Service
Phone: (202) 707-1314
E-mail: psel@loc.gov
[originally posted by:]
Bruce C Johnson
E-mail: <bjoh@loc.gov>
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