[Yulcat-l] LC Delay in Series Authority Decision (Official announcement)

[Steven Arakawa]

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Beacher Wiggins
Director for Acquisitions & Bibliographic Access
Library of Congress
101 Independence Avenue, Southeast
Washington, D.C.  20540
TEL (202) 707-5137  FAX (202) 707-6269
bwig at loc.gov


The Library of Congress Will Delay Implementation of Its Decision to Cease
Providing Controlled Series Access
May 4, 2006

The Director for Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access at the Library of
Congress recently announced that the Library would cease to provide
controlled  series access in the bibliographic records that its catalogers
produce.  The effective date for this change was announced as May 1,
2006.   Responses from constituent organizations and libraries indicated
that the short time between the announcement and the implementation date
would cause undue hardship and, in some cases, would mean that the
institutions would not be ready to accept bibliographic records without
controlled series access.  To accommodate these concerns, the Library will
delay its implementation until June 1, 2006.

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Steven Arakawa
Catalog Librarian for Training & Documentation
Catalog Dept. Sterling Memorial Library. Yale University.
P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240
(203)432-8286 steven.arakawa at yale.edu