*From:*Hawkins, Les
*Sent:* Wednesday, May 09, 2012 3:56 PM
*To:* '[email protected]'
*Subject:* LCCN revived
Forwarded on behalf of Beacher Wiggins:
I'm pleased to introduce the newest issue of LCCN, the electronic
journal of the Library of Congress Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access
Directorate. LCCN was the first e-journal to be issued by the Library
of Congress. It was first published in January 1993 and ran until June
2008. After a hiatus of nearly four years, we are reviving the
publication in order to share informal news and background stories from
LC's technical processing staff with the library community. Policy
updates and other official news will continue to be posted on our
Cataloging and Acquisitions Website at http://www.loc.gov/aba/
The Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate is a very
different place in April 2012 than it was in June 2008. We have
completely redesigned our workflows and merged acquisitions and
cataloging tasks; tested and agreed to implement RDA: Resource
Description and Access in conjunction with the other U.S. national
libraries, probably in March 2013; and begun inputting metadata in
original scripts directly to our integrated library system. As staffing
has decreased from 600 in 2008 to just under 500 employees today, "ABA"
is a leaner, more efficient organization. We proved that assertion by
our record-high cataloging production in 2010 and 2011 and record
acquisitions in 2011. Moreover, a career in technical processing at LC
is more challenging and intriguing than ever, as LCCN's new series "A
Day in the Life of ..." shows. Welocme to the new LCCN!
Beacher J. Wiggins
Director for Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access
Library of Congress
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