WLIC 2021, held 17-19 August 2021, was IFLA\u2019s first entirely online conference. The Bibliography Section participated in organizing two sessions and members of the Standing Committee were speakers at two more.<\/p>\n
Towards entity management : new roles and new service models for libraries<\/i><\/strong> (Cataloguing with Bibliography)<\/p>\n Andrew MacEwan (British Library) and Iris Berbain (Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France)<\/span> spoke about \u201cUsing ISNI to manage entity identification in the publishing supply chain\u201d, detailing current work in matching ISNI with pre-publication data right at source with major publishers, and with integrating ISNI further into their libraries\u2019 workflows. This leveraging of ISNI has potential to bring authority work earlier in the workflow for creating national bibliographic descriptions for new materials.<\/p>\n Karina Esman (National Library of Russia) presented on a project to create rich cataloguing descriptions for culturally significant rare materials \u2013 the book monuments \u2013 in the collection of the National Library. Fascinating examples and tricky to catalogue!<\/p>\n Subject to Change : how to deal with changes in subject information?<\/i><\/strong> (Subject Analysis and Access with Bibliography)<\/p>\n Hollie White (Curtin University, Perth, Australia) set the stage with \u201cSubject to flexibility: Theory and history of knowledge organisation systems\u201d where she situated library knowledge organisation systems in the history of western knowledge organisation. She contrasted the grand unified systems with more flexible pluralistic approaches, and situated sociological and critical theories.<\/p>\n Violet Fox (Accessible Book Consortium, USA) used her perspective in the development of classification systems to advocate for adopting open structures in \u201cTransparency & Change in Knowledge Organization\u201d. Maintaining a history of when classes or terms were valid should be part of every KOS. Violet also points to the importance of understanding where the funding for developing our access systems comes from.<\/p>\n F. Tim Knight (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada) in \u201cUsing Linked Data to Mitigate Colonial Subject Bias\u201d showed the potential for a linked data implementation of equivalent terms as \u201cterm circles\u201d with no single preferred term. SKOS attributes allow for tagging terms by language, and this could be extended to an attribute for \u201cworldview\u201d.<\/p>\n This topic led to a lively discussion!<\/p>\n SC member Maud Henry<\/strong> (Royal Library of Belgium, KBR) presented \u201cCovid as a catalyst: towards dematerialized cataloguing at KBR\u201d at the session National Libraries: Innovating and Transforming for Today and Tomorrow<\/em><\/strong>. <\/i>Remote work during the pandemic provided the impetus to consider new workflows to maintain cataloguing of print materials received through legal deposit and allow the timely publication of the Bibliography of Belgium<\/i>. Strategies implemented in the short term, once some onsite work was possible, include scanning initial pages for cataloguers to complete bibliographic descriptions from home, and maximizing the reuse of metadata entered through the legal deposit workflow. Their positive experience is an inducement to invest further in transforming data for reuse throughout the workflow. Maud also wrote about this project in the Metadata Newsletter<\/i><\/a> (v.7, no.1, June 2021, pages 12-14).<\/p>\n