Further reading

• OCLC Symposium for Publishers and Librarians on Metadata—An article by Renee Register excerpted from Information Standards Quarterly, Spring 2009.
• Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
• Library of Congress Study of Bibliographic Record Publication—A study that Rick Lugg and Ruth Fischer of R2 Consulting are conducting for the Library of Congress
• RIN, the Research Information Network, has commissioned Ken Chad Consulting in partnership with Sero Consulting to identify and map the current arrangements through which bibliographic records are created and to recommend how the current complexity could be reduced and whether services could be improved through more co-ordination of this effort. More about the study can be found at Curing the Bib Data pickle.
• Editeur—The International Group for Electronic Commerce in the Book and Serials Sectors
• Book Industry Study Group (BISG)
• BISG Data Certification and Best Practices
• Book Industry Standards and Communications (BISAC) Subject Codes
• Book Industry Communication (BIC)
• BIC Standard Subject Categories
• OCLC Programs and Research
• OCLC Next Generation Cataloging Pilot
• Standards Column—Transforming Metadata, by Todd Carpenter, Managing Director NISO; from Against the Grain by Katina Strauch, February 2009
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