LIASA IGBIS

Call for Applications: Attendance Grants: AI-Powered Metadata and Knowledge Discovery Symposium 2026


The IFLA AI Symposium organising committee invites Cataloguers, Metadata Specialists, Interlibrary Loan professionals, and all IGBIS CoP members to apply for registration grants to attend the upcoming symposium. This is an incredible opportunity to explore the future of knowledge discovery and AI integration alongside peers and industry experts.

Symposium Details

Venue: Ponte de Val, Parys, Free State
Date: 11 to 12 June 2026

What the Grant Covers
Successful applicants will receive a grant that covers the symposium registration fee only.

Eligibility Criteria
To be considered for an attendance grant, you must meet the following requirements:
Professional Membership
Full Attendance: You must be able to attend the symposium in person for the entire duration of both days (11 and 12 June 2026).

How to Apply

To submit your application, please provide the following details:

Full Name and Surname
Email address
Current Job Title and Institution
Your Association Membership Number (e.g., LIASA membership number) You must be a registered, paid-up individual member.

A brief motivation (150 words) how attending this symposium will benefit your current role or professional development.

Submission Deadline: Monday, 8 June 2026

Please send your application via email to: [email protected]

NB: Recipients are responsible for arranging and funding their own travel, meals outside the symposium programme, and accommodation.

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Did you miss the OCLC Cataloging Community Meeting? Here's where you can access the recording and the slides https://oc.lc/cataloging-community-meetings

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Agenda highlights
We'll be joined by guest presenters for our AI panel discussions:
Northwestern University librarians will share their own ethics and AI cataloging checklist, created by adapting professional codes of ethics to potential workflow.
Co-chairs of the PCC (Program for Cooperative Cataloging) Task Group on AI and Machine Learning for Cataloging and Metadata will provide key takeaways from their group’s final report.

OCLC's cataloging and metadata experts will:
Demonstrate how you can take advantage of recent enhancements to WorldShare Record Manager and WorldShare Library of Congress International Collections Manager to improve cataloging workflows at your library.
Provide an update on the status of OCLC's BIBFRAME editor tool and share plans for the future.
Discuss OCLC's commitment to accessibility, including accessibility metadata in WorldCat records, and preview ways we're updating our cataloging interfaces to support users and meet international standards.
Spotlight how WorldCat quality continues to improve with help from our machine learning model.

OCLC cataloging community meeting This virtual community event provides an opportunity to hear about important work by community members and learn about OCLC cataloging and metadata services.

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MARC Code List for Relators: Term Sequence

https://www.librarianshipstudies.com/2026/02/marc-code-list-for-relators-term.html

The MARC Code List for Relators — Term Sequence is a standardized list maintained by the Library of Congress (LC) that provides relator terms and their corresponding codes used in MARC records to describe the relationship between a person, corporate body, or meeting and a resource.

Below is a clear LIS-oriented explanation.

1. What is the MARC Code List for Relators?
The MARC Code List for Relators is a controlled vocabulary used in MARC 21 records to specify the role played by an agent (person or organization) in relation to a work.

Examples of roles include:

Author

Editor

Illustrator

Translator

Composer

Publisher

Actor

Each role is assigned a standard three-character code.

Example:

Relator Term Code
Author aut
Editor edt
Illustrator ill
Translator trl
Actor act
The purpose is to clearly indicate the relationship between names and works in bibliographic records.

2. What Does “Term Sequence” Mean?
The Term Sequence is one of the two arrangements of the relator list.

The two arrangements are:
Term Sequence

Relator terms listed alphabetically by term

Example: Actor → Adapter → Annotator → Architect

Includes:

Term

Code (in brackets)

Definition

Variant terms (UF – Used For)

Code Sequence

Relator entries arranged alphabetically by code

Example: act → Actor, adp → Adapter

In short:

✅ Term Sequence = alphabetical by relator term
✅ Code Sequence = alphabetical by code



3. Structure of an Entry in Term Sequence
A typical entry contains:

Example:
Censor [cns]
Use for a person responsible for expurgating or suppressing material.

UF
Bowdlerizer
Expurgator
Components:

Relator term (Censor)

Relator code ([cns])

Definition

UF (Used For) references — variant or non-preferred terms

UF references appear separately in alphabetical order but without codes.

4. Code Structure
Relator codes:

Are three lowercase alphabetic characters

Usually derived from the relator term

Example:

Actor → act

Adapter → adp

Annotator → ann



5. Where Relator Codes Are Used in MARC Records
Relator codes commonly appear in subfield $4 or relator terms in $e.

Examples:

100 1_ $a Shakespeare, William, $e author.
700 1_ $a Smith, John, $4 edt
Typical MARC fields:

100, 110, 111 (Main entry)

700, 710, 711 (Added entry)

600–611 (Subject added entries)



6. Purpose in Cataloguing
The Term Sequence helps cataloguers:

Standardize role descriptions

Improve indexing and retrieval

Support authority control

Enable machine-readable relationships between creators and works

Avoid ambiguity (e.g., editor vs translator vs illustrator)

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The LIASA Annual Conference 2026 is happening!

🗓 05–09 October 2026
📍 Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg

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