July 13, 1998

Chair Carol Shapiro opened the meeting on Monday, July 13, at 5:30 p.m. by mentioning that many things are going on behind the scenes. She noted that the lack of technical services programs at the Anaheim conference was very disheartening, and the online survey conducted in the convention center did not pose the correct questions to elicit constructive comments on the quality and variety of this year’s programming. A number of SIS’s feel the same way, so the method used to put together future programs may be reconfigured.

Announcements

Ellen McGrath has received the SUNY Award for Excellence in Librarianship.

Lenore Rapkin has published "A Civil Law Lexicon for Library Classification," which links civil law terminology with appropriate LC subject headings.

Melody Lembke has agreed to be the next chair of the TS SIS Standing Committee on Cataloging and Classification. Melody said she would be willing to work with anyone who is interested in chairing the group.

Reports

ALA ALCTS Catalog and Classification: Description and Access [CC:DA]: Liaison Ann Sitkin reported on both the Midwinter and Annual sessions. Highlights included updates on the work of the seriality task groups, the Task Group on Conference Proceedings, a task group on ISBD(ER) and Chapter 9, and the Task Force on Metadata and the Cataloging Rules, as well as information on both the electronic and print versions of AACR2. Ann also mentioned that there is much interest in "globalizing" AACR2 to make it more usable on an international level.

ALA ALCTS Machine Readable Bibliographic Data Committee [MARBI]: Liaison Rhonda Lawrence commented that a combined meeting of CC:DA and MARBI showed recognition that changes in descriptive cataloging rules will have an impact on MARC codes, especially changes to Rule 0.24. There has also been some discussion about enlarging the LC authority record structure to allow for the inclusion of name information from other countries, creating a sort of megaauthority record.

Survey on Cataloging Documentation: Christina Tarr reported that she and Melinda Davis had received 97 responses to the survey on in-house cataloging documentation. Most libraries reported having some form of documentation, and most found it to be useful. When the survey results are completely compiled, the results will be posted on the Web. Christina suggested that some catalogers may be able to use survey results to show supervisors that time is needed to develop documentation.

Form/Genre Terms for Law: Bill Benemann reported on the efforts of the ad hoc committee to compile a list of legal form and genre terms. This list may end up being incorporated into another thesaurus, or, if it is lengthy enough, it may end up as a separate list to be approved and maintained by the Standing Committee on Cataloging and Classification. Bill announced that a draft list has been compiled and welcomed comments on it. The list can also be found on the Web at: http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/stndcomm/catclass/gnredrft.htm.

IGO Collection Survey: The survey showed that most of the responding libraries intershelve their collections, although a few have separately classed collections. There is some interest among a few libraries in cooperating in this area.

New Business

Program proposals for 1999 are being collected. It was noted that program proposals that are fairly complete have a better chance of being accepted.

The meeting ended at 6:40 p.m. with the group thanking Carol, the representatives, and the working group members for all of their hard work.