Below is a message that was posted to the AUTOCAT Discussion List
regarding the availability of an online petition to the members of the
House/Senate Committee on the Library of Congress. The petition asks
them to reverse the LC decision to both cease authority control of
series titles in LC bibliographic cataloging and the corresponding
creation and maintenance of Series Authority Records.

Thought that some of you here might be interested in the petition. You
will have to go to AUTOCAT to follow the threads if you are interested
in the name trails.

Chris

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Christine W. Blackman
Catalog Librarian
Williams College Libraries
Williamstown, MA  01267
413-597-4403
cblackma@williams.edu

Date:    Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:37:07 -0500
From:    Robert Bratton <rbratton@law.gwu.edu>
Subject: Online Petition: LC's abandonment of SAR creation

I have used Elaine Sanchez's petition (with some editing and with her
permission) to create an online petition.  I thought it would be easier to
collect more signatures this way.  I would like to have all signatures by
3:00 PM EST on Friday, May 5.  After that I will e-mail and snail-mail the
petition to the members of the House/Senate Committee on the Library of
Congress, Beacher Wiggins, James H. Billington, and possibly others if
there are suggestions.  Any who wishes to, may print this petition and
mail it to your congressional representatives.

To access the petition:
http://www.petitiononline.com/MARC830/petition.html

Please cross post and share!

rbratton@law.gwu.edu
Robert Bratton
Cataloging Librarian
Jacob Burns Law Library
George Washington University