Facts, Stats, and Much More: The Library of Congress ALA Midwinter 2013 Update

Twice each year, as the ALA Annual Conference and the ALA Midwinter Meeting begin, the Library of Congress (LC) publishes an in-depth update about what they’ve been up to since the previous meeting or conference.

The update is loaded with facts, stats, personnel updates, and loads of other information.

Here’s a direct link to: Update for 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting: June-December 2012. The author of the document is Roberta Shaffer, Associate Librarian for Library Services.

What’s included in the report? Here’s a SMALL sample.

• Update from the U.S. Copyright Office
  • Technical Upgrades to Electronic Systems
  • Section 108 Reform
  • International Copyright
• Office Of The Librarian / Congressional Relations Office (CRO)
  • Library Appropriations
  • Legislative Branch Information Transparency
• Library Service
  • Collection Development
  • Defining Copyright Best Edition
  • eDeposit and eAcquisitions
  • New Areas of Acquisition
  • New Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative
• Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate
  • ECIP E-books Pilot
  • RDA training
  • ISSN (International Standard Serial Number)
• Policy and Standards: Bibliographic Description
  • Library of Congress-Program for Cooperative Cataloging Policy Statements
  • ALA-LC Romanization Tables
  • Experiment to Add 072 Fields to Subject Authority Records
  • Library of Congress Acquisitions and Cataloging Production (Statistics For FY 2010, 2011, 2012)
  • Collections and Services Directorate
    • FRD Country Studies
    • FRD POW/MIA Database
    • Flickr Commons Pilot Project
    • National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)–Chronicling America
  • Partnerships and Outreach Programs Directorate (POP)
    • National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
  • Preservation Directorate
    • Image-To-Sound Tools Software Development
  • Office Of Strategic Initiatives
    • LD’s Linked Data Service (ID/LDS) Project
    • LCCN Permalink
    • LC Persistent Identifiers
    • Managing the Library’s Digital Collections
    • Digital Portal Project
    • National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)
    • Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI)

  See Also: Past LC Updates From ALA Conferences Back to the 2009 Annual Conference

  • Library of Congress Update for the 2012 ALA Annual Conference
  • Library of Congress Update for the 2012 ALA Midwinter Meeting
  • Library of Congress Update for the 2011 ALA Annual Conference
  • Library of Congress Update for the 2011 ALA Midwinter Meeting
  • Library of Congress Update for the 2010 ALA Annual Conference
  • Library of Congress Update for the 2010 ALA Midwinter Meeting
  • Library of Congress Update for the 2009 ALA Annual Conference