Cataloging and Acquisitions
Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate of the Library of Congress
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- 04/7/2025: The Library of Congress (LC) is reducing work on LC vocabularies until the staff in the Library Collections and Services Group (LCSG) have successfully moved from Voyager to the Library’s new system, Folio. The move to Folio is a mission critical system migration, and the Policy, Training, and Cooperative Programs (PTCP) Division is responsible for organizing and providing training for all Library staff on the new system.Because the Folio transition will require significant time and labor from PTCP staff, routine monthly list work on all vocabularies will be paused with immediate effect. However, CIP proposals, and select proposals from LC staff, will continue to move forward on greatly streamlined lists. Select internal projects will continue during this phase, but external projects will also be paused.The Folio migration is anticipated to go live in summer 2025. It is our intention to restart our regular monthly list work operations as soon as possible after the migration. A pause to any of our routine operations is not a decision we make lightly, and we ask for your patience and understanding as we transform our systems.
- 02/19/2025: The Library of Congress is part of the legislative branch of the United States federal government and defers to the United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) for place names contained within our controlled vocabularies and classification. For more information, please see our Subject Headings Manual sheet H 690 Formulating Geographic Headings and visit the BGN website.
- 12/09/2024: Announcement of new instruction sheet H 1922 Offensive Words (PDF : 131 KB)
- 11/21/2024: Balinese romanization table: Proposed update (PDF : 310 KB). Comments appear at the end of the table. Please send additional comments to [email protected] by December 3, 2024.
- 06/26/2024: New Name and Scope for Library of Congress Approved Lists Newsfeed (PDF, 82 KB)
- 06/18/2024: Cancellation of LCSH Headings for Slurs (PDF, 160 KB)
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