Introduction
the Working Group recognizes the LC plays a unique role in the lirbrary community of the United States, and the directions tha LC takes have great impact on all libraries. We also recognize that there are many other institutions and organizations that have the experties and the capacity to play significant roles in the bibliographic future.
Background
LC cataloging records have traditinally been considered to represent the highest quality cataloging. Although there is no guarantee that LC records will be perfect.
LC is now faced with the need to catalog a growng variety of digital resources and to improve access to its unique and rare collections.
It is now time to reevaluate the pricing of LC's product line in order to develop a business model that allows LC to more substantially recoup its actual costs.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
The phrase bibliographic control is often interpreted to have the same meaning as the word cataloging.
Bibliographic control is increasingly a matter of managing relationships―among works, names, concepts, and object descriptions―across communities. In today's environment, bibliographic control cannot continue to be seen as limited to library catalogs.
FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
1. INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC PRODUCTION
1.1 Eliminate Redundancies
The Working Group identified three primary areas of redundancy in the bibliographic production process:
1. the supply chain, wherein some data are created by publishers and vendors and later re-created by library catalogers;
2. the modification of records within the library community, wherein such modifications are not shared, even though they could be useful to others; and
3. the expenses that are incurred when individual libraries must purchase records because the sharing of those records is prohibited or restricted.
Publishers can provide some elements of descriptive metadata in electronic format for much of their output and libraries need to capitalize on those metadata. Given the explosion of material requiring some level of bibliographic control, the model of item-by-item manual transcription is no longer sustainable. Libraries must find ways to make use of the data created by others in the supply chain, including data that can be derived from algorithmic analyses of digital materials.
Some unnecessary changes to records could be eliminated if there were a persuasive body of evidence that indicated what parts of the record are key to user access success
Recommendations
1.1.1 Make Use of Bibliographic Data Available Earlier in the Supply Chain
1.1.1.1 All: Be more flexible in accepting bibliographic data from others (e.g., publishers, foreign libraries) that do not conform precisely to U.S. library standards. 更加灵活的接收其他书目数据，不必严格遵守美国图书馆的标准
1.1.1.2 All: Analyze cataloging rules and modify them as necessary to ensure their ability to support data sharing with publisher and vendor artners. 分析、修订编目规则，以保障其支持数据共享的能力
1.1.1.3 All: Develop standard crosswalks for the conversion of vendor data to library system formats. 发展商业数据转化为图书馆系统格式的机制（包括技术）
1.1.1.4 All: Develop managed processes for creating and sharing conversion programs so that programming is not done redundantly at multiple institutions. 为编制、共享转化程序提供管理，以避免程序的重复开发
1.1.1.5 All: Work with resource providers to coordinate data sharing in a way that works well for all partners. 和资源提供者一起为共享数据提供交叉索引
1.1.1.6 All: Demonstrate to publishers the business advantages of supplying complete and accurate metadata. 向出版社证明提供完整、正确元数据的商业利益
1.1.2 Re-purpose Existing Metadata for Greater Efficiency
1.1.2.1 All: Develop workflow and mechanisms to use data and metadata from network resources, such as abstracting and indexing services, Amazon, IMDb, etc., where those can enhance the user's experience in seeking and using information. 建立一种机制，可以通过网络资源获取数据与元数据，充实用户搜索、利用信息的经验
1.1.2.2 All: Use metadata supplied by sound recording, motion picture, and other audio-visual distribution sources. 利用声像数据
1.1.2.3 All: Use descriptive cataloging provided by book vendors and non-U.S. libraries whenever available. 广泛利用书商及（美）国外图书馆提供的描述性目录
1.1.3 Automate the CIP process
1.1.3.1 LC: Require publishers participating in the CIP program to supply ONIX or other equivalent standardized XML metadata.
1.1.3.2 LC: Develop fully automated mechanisms to accept descriptive data in ONIX format from book publishers and transfer them to the MARC format for use as CIP records.
1.1.4 Re-Examine the Current Economic Model for Data Sharing in the Networked Environment 重新审视网络环境下现有数据共享的经济模式
1.1.4.1 LC: Convene a representative group consisting of libraries (large and small), vendors, and OCLC members to address costs, barriers to change, and the value of potential gains arising from greater sharing of data, and to develop recommendations for change. 召集图书馆、出版社以及OCLC成员组织在一起，共同研究成本、障碍以及潜在价值等，提出意见
1.1.4.2 LC: Promote widespread discussion of barriers to sharing data. LC广泛讨论共享数据存在的障碍
1.1.4.3 LC: Reevaluate the pricing of LC's product line with a view to developing a business model that enables more substantial cost recovery. 从发展商业模式的角度重新评估产品价格，以发现更多、更真实的成本
1.1.5 Develop Evidence about Discovery Tools to Guide Decision-Makers
1.1.5.1 All: Make use of existing, and gather additional evidence on user behavior to establish empirically the correlation between user behavior and the content of bibliographic records. 研究用户行为，建立以经验为主的用户行为与书目数据间的联系
Catalogers' time will be freed to enable increased focus on the intellectual work of providing controlled access points for discovery and retrieval of more material.
1.2 Increase Distribution of Responsibility for Bibliographic Record Production
The Program for Cooperative Cataloging： BIBCO (Bibliographic Cooperative), NACO (Name Authority Cooperative), SACO (Subject Authority Cooperative), and CONSER (Cooperative Online Serials)
Recommendations
1.2.1 Share Responsibility for Creating Bibliographic Records
1.2.1.1 LC, library and publishing communities: Share responsibility for creating original cataloging according to interest, use and ability. Consider categories of materials for which responsibilities can be distributed and categories of metadata that can be appropriately provided by each of the participants. 可分工协作
1.2.1.2 LC: Analyze the Library's use of PCC-produced data and determine how to take full advantage of the shared product. 如何充分利用共享产品
1.2.1.3 LC: Recognize the impact of LC practice on other libraries. Changes in practice must be openly arrived at with sufficient opportunity for public input, and widely announced with sufficient time to allow other libraries to consider the ramifications, if any, for their own practices and workflows.
1.2.2 Examine Current Original Cataloging Programs and Sub-Programs at the Library of Congress
1.2.2.1 LC: Identify all distinct cataloging programs and operations within the Library of Congress; determine the relative importance of each to the Library of Congress and other libraries; use these determinations to inform management decisions as to priority, continuation, etc.
1.2.2.2 LC: For those aspects of operations that extend beyond the Library's immediate mission as the Library of Congress, identify other entities or groups with the interest and ability to assume responsibility for them.
1.2.2.3 LC: Work with interested entities such as PCC, ARL, professional organizations, publishers, etc. to plan transition to new distribution of responsibilities.
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