The meeting was called to order at 7:05 a.m.

» Guerilla catalogers and multiversions: A short discussion took place regarding the use of one bibliographic record for multiple versions of an item; approximately 50 percent of those present currently use this practice. A few catalogers were interested in using latest entry records for serials rather than successive entry, but none was actually cataloging this way.

» NACO in Baltimore: Alva Stone spoke about the Library of Congress' Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), which invites libraries from all over the world to contribute high quality bibliographic and/or authority records to the national file. She urged roundtable attendees to consider participating in a four day training session on the NACO Program to be held next year before the annual conference in Baltimore. Aaron Kuperman of the Library of Congress gave out informational packets to those interested in the program. The BIBCO Program was also mentioned, and clarification was made that a library must be a NACO member in order to participate in the BIBCO Program. Jacqui Paul made the point that individual libraries would be able to create authority records for their respective state corporate bodies and other headings, which would be very useful to the law library community at large.

» Revised K schedules form tables: Pat McCoy summarized Regina Wallen's notes on the draft of the regional K form tables revisions(K, KD, KDZ, KG-KH). Jolande Goldberg then opened the floor to debate on several important concerns raised by the notes. The following amendments were finalized as a result:

1.  Keep breakdown in serials and monographs
    .A15 Periodicals -- refers to mixed materials;

2.  Drafts of treaties will be separate; 

3.  .A75 General works, Treatises (term added);

4.  Get rid of mention to Addresses, essays, lectures;

5.  Intergovernmental congresses -- refers to both serial
    and ad hoc congresses;

6.  Clean up language in general
     Add term "Official" to Annual reports;

7.  Take out mention of law reports; replace with term
    "Official journals" for journals of legislation;

8.  The Cutter form tables will be replaced by the
    following:
     Statutes
         Monographs
         Serials
     Cases
     General works.  Treatises;

9.  Under Texts of treaties, annotated editions:
     .A3-Z8       Works on the treaties
     .A4 [date] A4 [date]   Related agreements;

10. Societies formerly classed under
 	.A54A-Z will now be moved to
 	.A75-Z and placed under General works;

11. Dictionaries and encyclopedia will be referred in a
    scope note to the specific branch of law and withdrawn
    from the form tables.

The Committee determined that Jolande had gotten a good sense of our concerns, and that she should use her judgment to finish the revisions. She will post the final revisions to LAW-TECH on Monday, July 26, with comments due within a week. A reminder on how to subscribe to LAW-TECH will be posted on AUTOCAT and LAW-LIB.

Aaron Kuperman made the point that, although the terminology can be standardized and some numbers can be omitted, it really isn't feasible to have one table for all schedules.

There was a discussion about where to class conference proceedings, with some dispute as to their value (should they be considered as minor works). Carol Shapiro commented on the lack of standardized title page information. Ann Sitkin reported that NISO is preparing a standard for conference proceedings title pages. CC:DA has a task group which is currently examining conference proceedings with regard to the following:

1. To define what is a named conference;
2. To remove the word "prominently" from defining what constitutes a named conference (RI 21.1B2).

Rhonda Lawrence reported that CONSER is also looking at the definition of conference proceedings for serials, which may allow more proceedings to be cataloged as serials. Pat McCoy expressed concern that information (i.e., table of contents) would be lost as a result.

The anticipated revision of the KF, KD, and KE tables was discussed. Nothing has been done with the form division tables yet. According to Aaron Kuperman, the schedules need large amounts of revision; there is a cooperative project to update terminology and provide more explanatory notes. John Hostage stated that he would like to see it issued in a timely manner, but that it would need to be proofread first. The H schedules were not proofread before being submitted.

» Law and Legislation: free-floating? There was virtually unanimous agreement that the subdivision Law and legislation not become free-floating. Marie Whited explained the history of the term, which was free-floating several years ago. As a result of misuse of the term, the reference structure to several major branches of law was completely lost and quality control suffered. The term was removed from the free floating list within a year. Aaron Kuperman suggested that law catalogers submit subject heading modifications to the SACO program for any inherently legal terms that might need a cross reference with the Law and legislation subdivision. The question of what is an inherently legal subject heading was discussed (terms with most of the works in the LC database classed in law; terms defined in Black's Law Dictionary). Rhonda Lawrence asked that this topic be the focus of a working group to come up with proposals and suggestions for next year on how to identify what is inherently legal and when to use Law and legislation. Carol Shapiro stated that this group would be set up. In addition, mention was made regarding the formulation of standing subcommittees for classification, cataloging, and subject headings, inasmuch as the size of the C&C Committee has grown so large as to be unwieldy. Nothing was finalized on this subject.

The meeting adjourned at 9:30 A.M.