Cataloging and Acquisitions
Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate of the Library of Congress
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- 05/27/2026: The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) was launched in 1959. Over the past 67 years, the program has collaborated with more than 1,800 institutions and repositories, creating bibliographic and name authority access for over 139,000 collections. Through this work, participating institutions and repositories have developed new ways for end users to discover and access their valuable collections. In the past three years, only four institutions have remained active in the NUCMC program for collection access support: America's Packard Museum (Ohio); the Maine Historical Society; the Swiss Center of North America (Wisconsin); and the University of Montana-Missoula. With the retirement of NUCMC's last librarian, Roberto Sicre, at the end of May, the Library of Congress will sunset the NUCMC program. The participating institutions have established contingency plans to continue supporting user access to their resources through online finding aids. Questions about the history of the NUCMC program can be sent to [email protected].
- 04/16/2026: A new version of the Hindi Romanization Table has been approved.
- 02/19/2026: Library of Congress: Moving Forward with Additional Scripts: Announcement (PDF, 154 KB)
- 01/05/2026: Library of Congress to Expand Use of LC Genre/Form Terms (LCGFT) and Implement Subject Heading (LCSH and CYAC--Children & Young Adult) Cataloging Simplification: Announcement (PDF, 127 KB) | FAQ (PDF, 114 KB)
- 12/30/2025: Hindi Romanization Table (2025): Proposed table (PDF: 278 KB)
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