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Subject: 2001 ALA Midwinter Conference - Committee to Study
SerialsCataloging Meeting
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:28:11 -0800
From: Sally Tseng <sctseng@lib.uci.edu>

Dear Colleagues:

You are cordially invited to attend the ALCTS/SS/CSSC (Committee to
Study Serials Cataloging) meeting at the 2001 ALA Midwinter Conference.
It will be held on:

Date:   Monday, January 15, 2001
Time:   2:00-4:00 p.m.
Place:  Wyndham Hotel, West Room,
        1400 M Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20005

Featured at the meeting includes report and presentations from:

* CC:DA report, Mary Grenci, Serials Catalog Librarian, University of
Oregon Libraries, and CSSC Representative to CC:DA.
* MARBI report, Joe Altimus, Dataloads Specialist, The Research
Libraries Group
* LC and NSDP reports, Regina R. Reynolds, Head, National Serials Data
Program, Library of Congress and LC Liaison

* Dr. Lois Mai Chan, Professor, School of Library and Information
Science, University of Kentucky, one of the speakers at the November
2000 LC Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New
Millennium, will speak on “ Subject Access to Networked Resources :
Implications for LCSH, LCC and DDC”.

LCSH, LCC, and DDC have long been the main tools for subject access in
OPACs.   This presentation reviews the expanding and potential roles of
traditional tools for subject access in the networked environment.
Recent deliberations of the ALCTS Subcommittee on Subject Analysis and
Metadata and research findings suggest that in order to extend their
usefulness as subject access tools in the Web environment, traditional
schemes must undergo rigorous scrutiny
and re-thinking, particularly in terms of their structure and the way
they are applied.   Aspects of vocabulary structure that warrant
re-examination will be explored.

* Jean Hirons, CONSER Coordinator, Library of Congress.
* Karen D. Darling, Head, Acquisitions Dept., University of
Missouri-Columbia Library

A discussion of the topics and agreements covered at the harmonization
meeting, including major/minor changes, scope, basis of description and
title transcription (Jean).  Brief reports from Karen, Regina, and Jean
on how each of the standards (ISBD(ER), ISBD(S), ISSN), will
incorporate, some discrepancies, time-tables, etc.

* Regina R. Reynolds, Head, National Serials Data Program, Library of
Congress, one of the speakers at the November 2000 LC Bicentennial
Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium, will speak
on “ Partnerships to Mine Unexploited Sources of Metadata”.

If the library catalog is to play any role as a portal to Web resources,
new means have to be developed to bring the ever-increasing number of
Web resources of interest to library patrons under some kind of
bibliographic control. The potential for creation of catalog records
based on publisher-supplied metadata will be illustrated using data from
a study of records created by the National Serials Data Program (NSDP).

* Becky Culbertson, acting head of the Digital Information and Serials
Cataloging section, University of California, San Diego, will speak on “
One for Nine: the Shared Cataloging Program of the California Digital
Library”.

Becky will relate the genesis and development of the California Digital
Library's Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) based at UCSD. One of the main
foundations of the California Digital Library (CDL) is to centrally
license electronic resources for the nine UC campuses, thus making a
single university collection rather than nine separate collections.
Becky will discuss how the program works, with emphasis on the
cataloging guidelines and their adoption by the serials catalogers at
UCSD.  She will also discuss the CDL implementation of OCLC's PURL
software and how it is used in the SCP records.

*  John Attig, Authority Control Librarian, Cataloging Services
Department, Pennsylvania State University, and Chair of the
ALCTS/CCS/CC:DA Task Force to Review the Proposed Revisions to Chapter
12.

John will report on the status of the revision of Chapter 12 of AACR,
including the discussions by the Joint Steering Committee (JSC) in
September and the work of the ALCTS/CCS/CC:DA Task Force to Review the
Proposed Revisions to Chapter 12.  He will also lead a discussion of
some of the major issues, particularly those concerning the scope of the
term
"continuing resource" and the scope of Chapter 12.

Happy Holidays!  See you in Washington, D.C.

Sincerely yours,

ALCTS/SS/Committee to Study Serials Cataloging

Everett Allgood
E. Renette Davis
Mary Grenci
John R. Radencich
Rebecca S. Uhl
David C. Van Hoy
Jina C. Wakimoto
Sally C. Tseng, Chair

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Sally C. Tseng, CSSC Chair
Head, Serials Cataloging                 Telephone:  949-824-6832
Science Library #331                     Fax:        949-824-2059
University of California, Irvine         FAX (H):    949-857-1988
P.O. Box 19557                           email:      sctseng@uci.edu
Irvine, CA 92623
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