Tauranga City Council
Te Kaunihera o Tauranga Moana
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Library Enterprise Unit
Te Whare Pukapuka
Cataloguer
E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā maunga, e ngā wai, e ngā pātaka o ngā taonga tuku iho, tēnā koutou!
Kei te wātea tētahi tūranga ki Te Whare Pukapuka o Tauranga Moana. Ko ēnei e whai ake nei ngā āhuatanga me ngā whakaritenga o tēnei tūranga.
We are looking for an energetic, enthusiastic and reliable Cataloguer to join our team at Tauranga City Libraries.
You will be responsible to develop and maintain an integrated bibliographic database of all resources held in the libraries together with providing advice on cataloguing and bibliographic content.
The person we are seeking will have demonstrated cataloguing skills and experience including a good understanding of the information retrieval needs of customers. The position involves limited information service support and material selection.
You will require a recognised library qualification and LIANZA professional registration (or eligibility for registration).
Applications close at 10.00am on Wednesday 8 October 2008. All applications will be dealt with in strict confidence.
For more information or to apply online visit www.tauranga.govt.nz
A job description and application form are also available by phoning 577 7000 or by collection from our offices at 91 Willow Street, Tauranga.
Council is a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Trust.
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[Apologies for cross posting]
The following message appeared on both the RDA and Autocat listservs in the last few days.
"Dear Colleagues:
The PowerPoint presentations and speaker notes from the IFLA RDA Satellite Meeting held in conjunction with the 2008 IFLA Conference are now available on the JSC website. You can find them at:
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/rda.html#presentations
Cordially,
Marjorie
Marjorie E. Bloss, RDA Project Manager
2827 West Gregory Street
Chicago, Illinois 60625
USA
1-773-878-4008
1-773-519-4009 (mobile)
Marjorie_Bloss(a)msn.com "
I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the satellite meeting and can thoroughly recommend all the presentations. Barbara Tillett's provides an excellent background to the development of RDA and a rather lovely look at British Library catalogue book catalogue records from the perspective of FRBR.
Deirdre Kiorgaard's presentation looks more closely at RDA itself, and Anders Cato provides an interesting non-Anglo perspective on RDA.
Published formats and costs: A publisher's representative was also at the meeting and there were a number of questions about costs, the possibility of a print version of RDA, and the possibility of other versions for special use (e.g. map or music cataloguing). It was clear that no decisions had been made about any of the issues raised, but once there is a final version of RDA we may get more information about formats and costs. It did seem unlikely that a print version will be available as a first release of RDA.
International rules? Another point that I found particularly interesting was the level of interest from the European community. Germany and Sweden seemed keen to adopt RDA as their national cataloguing code and there was also interest from Japan and other countries. RDA looks like becoming an international standard to a greater extent than AACR.
MARC. There was relatively little information about MARC - although there has been a discussion paper about RDA and MARC and some decisions were announced at this year's ALA.
Library systems: The reactions of system vendors to RDA were not raised at the seminar and it seems likely that the vendors are waiting for a final release of RDA (and probably the MARC changes) before working out the implications of the new rules for their systems.
The timeline from the meeting was as follows:
Oct. 13 2008 - - RDA Final draft online for review - (doesn't contain full range of workflow and personalisation tools that will come with the final product)
Jan 19 2009 - - Review period ends
early March 2009 - Final review by Joint Steering Committee
3rd quarter 2009 - RDA release
early-mid 2010 -Implementation decisions from LC and other major libraries - Pam Gatenby's presentation includes more information about evaluation plans of national libraries.
Chris Todd
Chris (Christine) Todd
Team Leader, Monos Plus Team, Content Services,
National Library of New Zealand.
Telephone: (04) 474 3093
Fax: (04) 474 3161
Email: chris.todd(a)natlib.govt.nz
The following message appeared on both the RDA and Autocat listservs in the last few days.
"Dear Colleagues:
The PowerPoint presentations and speaker notes from the IFLA RDA Satellite Meeting held in conjunction with the 2008 IFLA Conference are now available on the JSC website. You can find them at:
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/rda.html#presentations
Cordially,
Marjorie
Marjorie E. Bloss, RDA Project Manager
2827 West Gregory Street
Chicago, Illinois 60625
USA
1-773-878-4008
1-773-519-4009 (mobile)
Marjorie_Bloss(a)msn.com "
I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the satellite meeting and can thoroughly recommend all the presentations. Barbara Tillett's provides an excellent background to the development of RDA and a rather lovely look at British Library catalogue book catalogue records from the perspective of FRBR.
Deirdre Kiorgaard's presentation looks more closely at RDA itself, and Anders Cato provides an interesting non-Anglo perspective on RDA.
Published formats and costs: A publisher's representative was also at the meeting and there were a number of questions about costs, the possibility of a print version of RDA, and the possibility of other versions for special use (e.g. map or music cataloguing). It was clear that no decisions had been made about any of the issues raised, but once there is a final version of RDA we may get more information about formats and costs. It did seem unlikely that a print version will be available as a first release of RDA.
International rules? Another point that I found particularly interesting was the level of interest from the European community. Germany and Sweden seemed keen to adopt RDA as their national cataloguing code and there was also interest from Japan and other countries. RDA looks like becoming an international standard to a greater extent than AACR.
MARC. There was relatively little information about MARC - although there has been a discussion paper about RDA and MARC and some decisions were announced at this year's ALA.
Library systems: The reactions of system vendors to RDA were not raised at the seminar and it seems likely that the vendors are waiting for a final release of RDA (and probably the MARC changes) before working out the implications of the new rules for their systems.
The timeline from the meeting was as follows:
Oct. 13 2008 - - RDA Final draft online for review - (doesn't contain full range of workflow and personalisation tools that will come with the final product)
Jan 19 2009 - - Review period ends
early March 2009 - Final review by Joint Steering Committee
3rd quarter 2009 - RDA release
early-mid 2010 -Implementation decisions from LC and other major libraries - Pam Gatenby's presentation includes more information about evaluation plans of national libraries.
If anyone wants to follow up with me on any of the points above please feel free to get in touch.
Chris Todd
Chris (Christine) Todd
Team Leader, Monos Plus Team, Content Services,
National Library of New Zealand.
The following message appeared on both the RDA and Autocat listservs in the last few days.
"Dear Colleagues:
The PowerPoint presentations and speaker notes from the IFLA RDA Satellite Meeting held in conjunction with the 2008 IFLA Conference are now available on the JSC website. You can find them at:
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/rda.html#presentations
Cordially,
Marjorie
Marjorie E. Bloss, RDA Project Manager
2827 West Gregory Street
Chicago, Illinois 60625
USA
1-773-878-4008
1-773-519-4009 (mobile)
Marjorie_Bloss(a)msn.com "
I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the satellite meeting and can thoroughly recommend all the presentations. Barbara Tillett's provides an excellent background to the development of RDA and a rather lovely look at British Library catalogue book catalogue records from the perspective of FRBR.
Deirdre Kiorgaard's presentation looks more closely at RDA itself, and Anders Cato provides an interesting non-Anglo perspective on RDA.
Published formats and costs: A publisher's representative was also at the meeting and there were a number of questions about costs, the possibility of a print version of RDA, and the possibility of other versions for special use (e.g. map or music cataloguing). It was clear that no decisions had been made about any of the issues raised, but once there is a final version of RDA we may get more information about formats and costs. It did seem unlikely that a print version will be available as a first release of RDA.
International rules? Another point that I found particularly interesting was the level of interest from the European community. Germany and Sweden seemed keen to adopt RDA as their national cataloguing code and there was also interest from Japan and other countries. RDA looks like becoming an international standard to a greater extent than AACR.
MARC. There was relatively little information about MARC - although there has been a discussion paper about RDA and MARC and some decisions were announced at this year's ALA.
Library systems: The reactions of system vendors to RDA were not raised at the seminar and it seems likely that the vendors are waiting for a final release of RDA (and probably the MARC changes) before working out the implications of the new rules for their systems.
The timeline from the meeting was as follows:
Oct. 13 2008 - - RDA Final draft online for review - (doesn't contain full range of workflow and personalisation tools that will come with the final product)
Jan 19 2009 - - Review period ends
early March 2009 - Final review by Joint Steering Committee
3rd quarter 2009 - RDA release
early-mid 2010 -Implementation decisions from LC and other major libraries - Pam Gatenby's presentation includes more information about evaluation plans of national libraries.
If anyone wants to follow up with me on any of the points above please feel free to get in touch.
Chris Todd
Chris (Christine) Todd
Team Leader, Monos Plus Team, Content Services,
National Library of New Zealand.
Telephone: (04) 474 3093
Fax: (04) 474 3161
Email: chris.todd(a)natlib.govt.nz
[Apologies for cross posting]
Nga Upoko Tukutuku / Maori Subject Headings
E nga mata waka o te motu, tena koutou katoa.
We are pleased to announce the arrival of an updated version of Nga Upoko Tukutuku. The principal changes are:
o A clearer display, including the interfiling of words with and without macrons
o Easier navigation within the list of headings
o Some new scope notes and the revision of several existing ones (see below)
o The addition of new terms requested by users (see below)
We would also like to alert people that, owing to the software upgrade, any bookmarks to individual terms will be lost. We apologise for the inconvenience and are working with the vendors to try and prevent this happening with further upgrades.The website is still found at http://mshupoko.natlib.govt.nz/
We would like to thank people for their ongoing suggestions for new terms. We are shortly to begin assembling a team to develop the next group of headings, so please keep sending suggestions to reo(a)natlib.govt.nz.
Scope notes
Scope notes have been added to some terms which have the potential to be applied as either an example of the topic or about the topic. For example:
Pakiwaitara. Fictional stories of Maori as opposed to historical or legendary, modern fiction. This heading can be used for examples of fiction or for works about fiction.
Purakau. Traditional, historical and legendary stories of Maori. 'True' stories as opposed to fictional. Can be used for examples of traditional, historical and legendary stories, or for works about these stories.
We have difficulty with macrons in email, so please excuse their absence.
Noho ora ra, na matou, na Kim me te ropu o Nga Upoko Tukutuku.
New terms - http://mshupoko.natlib.govt.nz/mshupoko/recent.htm
Manager, Collection Description
National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa
Wellington, New Zealand
DDI: +644 474 3085
Kim.gutchlag(a)natlib.govt.nz
http://www.natlib.govt.nz
