The interviewing continued today.
Kathy Shore
Kathy Shore is the Monographic/Maps Cataloging Assistant. She also deals a lot with series cataloging. Authority control is not really an issue with her. Her concern are the 400 fields. She checks the series information. If the record was downloaded from Library of Congress then it is taken without question. If the record was obtained from another source then the record will be carefully checked. The only thing she has ever ran into is sometimes author names in the 100 fields do not have dates attached to them. This is a red flag because often times names without dates will not control and so they must be checked out in OCLC to make sure they are in fact correct. OCLC recently decided that the 440 field would no longer be used for series information. They are now using the 490 field. The 490 field now contains the non-authoritative version of the series and the 830 field contains the authoritative form of the series title.
Jason Alston
Jason is the Diversity Resident at Jackson Library. This is a new position that was just created and Jason is the first to occupy it. He has been working closely with Paul Hessling who is the Special Collections and Chief Monographic Cataloger. Jason has been working with finding aids for the archives and manuscripts using EAD (Encoded Archival Data). He works with EAD in NoteTab. EAD is being used now as a set standard for cataloging archival or special collections materials. Before the Library of Congress established EAD there were no set standards for cataloging archival or special collections materials. Most institutions set their own individual standards. This meant that no two institutions standards were the same. This caused many problems when information was shared or users went from one archive to another.
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