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2012
10/01/2012
American Mathematical Society Pilot Becomes Permanent
(PDF 49 KB)
09/27/2012
Conversion of Older Authentication Codes
(PDF 48 KB)
08/01/2012
MDS Bibliographic and Authority Files from July 2012 Corrected and Re-Posted
(PDF 10 KB)
07/17/2012
More About RDA Changes to Name Authority Records
(PDF 128 KB)
04/25/2012
Advance Notice: RDA Changes to Name Authority Records
(PDF 91 KB)
02/06/2012
Non-Latin Data in Subject Authority Records
(PDF 99 KB)
2011
11/02/2011
Subjects Authorities Distribution Error
(PDF 287 KB)
05/27/2011
Subject Authority Records Enhanced with Geographic Coordinates
(PDF 95 KB)
05/03/2011
Changes to Subject Heading and Classification MDS Products
(PDF 29 KB)
2010
12/22/2010
Reissuing Genre/Form Authority Records
(PDF 21 KB)
12/21/2010
LC Will Not Change "Dept." to "Department" at This Time
(PDF 27 KB)
09/29/2010
LC ILS Upgrade Impact on MDS
(PDF 13 KB)
08/17/2010
Mongolian Cataloging Project
(PDF 21 KB)
08/12/2010
Pilot Project: AMS Subject Terms in CIP Records
(PDF 21 KB)
06/29/2010
New Bibliographic and Authority Elements, and Name Authority Testing
(PDF 420 KB)
05/26/2010
Subject Headings for Cooking and Cookbooks
(PDF 120 KB)
04/21/2010
Library of Congress Policy Statements
(PDF 103 KB)
04/19/2010
Name Authority Records Enhanced with Geographic Coordinates
(PDF 108 KB)
2009
12/07/2009
Seeding MDS-Serials Records with ISSN-L
(PDF 101 KB)
12/07/2009
Changes to Copyright Serial Registrations
(PDF 104 KB)
06/22/2009
Upcoming Record Cleaning Projects
(PDF 77 KB)
05/22/2009
New Bibliographic Record Elements
(PDF 33 KB)
2008
12/09/2008
Conversion of Obsolete Language Codes
(PDF 96 KB)
06/10/2008
New Character Sets in MDS-Books
(PDF 120 KB)
05/12/2008
Non-Latin Data in Name Authority Records
(PDF 103 KB)
04/11/2008
Availability of 2007 Retrospective Files for Distribution to MDS Customers
(PDF 99 KB)
02/19/2008
Distribution of Subject Authority Records for Validation Purposes
(PDF 102 KB)
02/14/2008
Name Authority Record Cleanup Projects
(PDF 100 KB)
2007
11/19/2007
New Character Sets in MDS-Maps, MDS-Music, MDS-Visual Materials, and MDS-Computer Files
(PDF 99 KB)
09/27/2007
Regarding Pricing on Bulk Access to Copyright Cataloging Information
09/11/2007
Problem with Extended Arabic Characters
(PDF 17 KB)
08/16/2007
MARC 21 Data Elements in LC Bibliographic and Authority Records
(PDF 44 KB)
07/09/2007
Distribution of Integrating Resource Records in MDS-Serials
(PDF 19 KB)
06/21/2007
Change in Practice for Spacing in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Language Bibliographic Records
(PDF 21 KB)
05/25/2007
Distribution of Subject Authority Records for Validation Purposes
(PDF 36 KB)
04/23/2007
Genre/Form Subject Authority Records (155) in MDS-Subject Authorities
(PDF 25 KB)
04/20/2007
Increase in Encoding Level from Prepublication Status No Longer Available
01/30/2007
Conversion of CONSER Encoding Level 4 Records
(PDF 25 KB)
2006
11/17/2006
Discontinuance of MDS-NUCMC
(PDF 17 KB)
11/09/2006
Discontinuance of MDS-HLAS
(PDF 17 KB)
11/01/2006
Discontinuance of the CDS Alert Service
(PDF 17 KB)
11/01/2006
Merging of MDS-Books Arabic with MDS-Books All
(PDF 17 KB)
11/01/2006
Merging of MDS-Books CJK with MDS-Books All
(PDF 17 KB)
11/01/2006
Merging of MDS-Books Hebrew with MDS-Books All
(PDF 17 KB)
11/01/2006
MDS-Books All to Contain JACKPHY Records
(PDF 17 KB)
07/17/2006
Changes to Copyright Records
(PDF 17 KB)
05/31/2006
New Character Sets in MDS-Serials Records
04/24/2006
MARC 21 Data Elements in LC Bibliographic and Authority Records
(PDF 26 KB)
02/06/2006
Name Authority Records Enhanced with Geographic Data
2005
10/25/2005
LC ILS Upgrade Impact on MDS
10/12/2005
MARC 21 Data Elements in LC Bibliographic and Authority Records
03/10/2005
Distribution of "OCLC Replacement Records": A Subset of PREMARC Records
01/18/2005
Machine-generated Contents Notes
2004
07/22/2004
MARC 21 Data Elements in LC Bibliographic and Authority Records
06/23/2004
LC Plan to Accommodate 13-Digit ISBN
2003
10/01/2003
Summaries for Nonfiction Juvenile Titles Suspended Indefinitely
04/28/2003
Field 017 No Longer Supplied for Maps Records
02/25/2003
Records for Copyright Paperback Collection
02/19/2003
MARC 21 Data Elements in LC Bibliographic and Authority Records
2002
11/18/2002
Field 072 No Longer Supplied for Maps Records
11/08/2002
Changes in MDS Effective January 2003
06/13/2002
MARC 21 Data Elements in LC Bibliographic and Authority Records
03/26/2002
Additions to the MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources and Description Conventions
03/12/2002
Additions to the MARC Code List for Languages
2001
12/01/2001
Additions to the MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions
11/27/2001
New MARC 21 Data Elements in LC Bibliographic Records
11/20/2001
Subject Headings that Include the Term Handicapped
11/20/2001
Name Authority Records with Field 053 Indicator Values
10/09/2001
CDS to Cease MDS Tapes and Cartridges in Favor of FTP
05/22/2001
New MARC 21 Data Elements in LC Bibliographic and Authority Records
03/27/2001
CONSER Publication Pattern Records
03/13/2001
Converted Pinyin Bibliographic Records Distributed via MDS-Books
2000
12/19/2000
Improved MDS File Names
12/06/2000
African American Subject Headings
12/05/2000
First of the Converted Pinyin Bibliographic Records Distributed
09/25/2000
Changes to MDS Services Regarding Records for Electronic Resources