Everyone, Beginning March 6th, 2013, Phase 2 of the automated changes to the LC NAF is due to commence. In Phase 2, authority records whose access fields (1XX, 4XX and 5XX fields) are subject to mechanical manipulation to make them conformant to RDA will be modified. Examples of these changes are the expansion of the abbreviations for department or arranged, the replacement of "Koran" in subfield $a with "Qur’an," etc. Approximately 400K headings will be affected. Processing will be complete before the PCC Day 1 for RDA Authority Records on March 31, 2013. Sometime after this point, PCC will finalize the planning for Phase 3 of the authority file manipulation. During this phase, those headings that are RDA acceptable but still coded as pre-RDA will be explicitly coded as RDA. We strongly feel that the indication of RDA compliance for RDA acceptable headings being the lack of the 667 note added which states THIS 1XX CANNOT BE USED UNDER RDA UNTIL THIS RECORD HAS BEEN REVIEWED AND/OR UPDATED is unacceptable as a permanent condition. However, we also acknowledge the impact that this explicit recoding will have on various data processing pipelines. It is most likely that this change will occur over the span of multiple years in order to make the processing of these records acceptable to the NACO nodes and local authority files. -- Philip E. Schreur Chair, Program for Cooperative Cataloging Head, Metadata Department Stanford University 650-723-2454 650-725-1120 (fax)
