Date: 15 November 2004
Present: Sarah Elman, Maria Hunenko, Mickey Koth, Cécile Mandour, Rick Sarcia, Manon Théroux (chair and recorder).
Absent: Steven Arakawa, Fanny Hsieh.
1. RLIN Save File Status Report
Committee members reported on the number of "save" records for their units (and any units whose records they review) and the approximate date of those records. Almost all records were less than one month old; many were less than one week old. Reviewers will contact those catalogers who are responsible for the few records older than 60 days. If they cannot be contributed right way for some reason (e.g., waiting on responses from LC or a NACO Funnel Project), they should be updated to reset the 60-day clock.
2. NACO Goals
Teams in the SML Catalog Department have been asked to set goals for the coming year by the end of January 2005. At a recent team leaders' meeting, it was suggested that these team goals should include NACO goals. Team goals relating to NACO might include such things as:
Each team will decide the goals that are most appropriate for them based on their team's size, expertise, the types of material cataloged, and other mitigating factors. Individual catalogers will then be expected to set NACO goals that are in line with their team's goals.
3. NACO Names Training
Starting this month, Manon will be conducting NACO Names training for four catalogers: Thomas Bolze, Chris Smith, Penny Welbourne, and Fereshteh Molavi. The training will consist of eight half-day sessions at the SCML from Nov. 30-Dec. 10.
4. NACO Series Training Manuals
Copies of the latest version of the NACO Series Training Manual have been ordered for all catalog librarians who have received NACO Series training or are scheduled to received it in the coming months. Estimates for the printing costs were solicited from Tyco and RIS; RIS was significantly cheaper. Catalogers will be expected to re-use their old binders.
5. RLIN21 Status Report
Nothing has changed in the RLG timeline since the last meeting. The NACO-enabled client should be released sometime in December. We should then have a month to practice NACO inputting in a test database. The committee will offer training in January (Manon will cover NACO searching; Mickey will cover NACO inputting). The cutover date for moving to RLIN21 NACO work is scheduled for January 31.
6. SACO Coordinating Committee
A new committee is currently being formed: the SACO Coordinating Committee. Manon distributed a draft charge for comment. The charge is modelled on the charge for the NACO Coordinating Committee. The draft charge will also be distributed for review by the Cataloging Coordinating Council, the group to which it will officially report. One motivating factor in the formation of the committee was the subject cataloging expertise of Daniel Lovins and Steven Arakawa, who have recently become trainers in the joint PCC/ALCTS "Basic Subject Cataloging Using LCSH" workshop. Among other things, the new committee will review Yale SACO proposals and help to develop advanced subject cataloging training on special topics.
7. NACO-Music Project Survey
Mickey reported that a library science student working in the Music Library has designed a survey that is being administered to members of the NACO-Music Project <http://www.musicoclcusers.org/nmp.html>. The survey will compare the amount of time it takes to create local authority records in a local system vs. the amount of time it takes to create NACO authority records.
8. CPSO Proposal for Government-Designated Parks and Forests
The committee discussed the recent CPSO proposal on headings for government-designated parks and forests <http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/parks.html>, taking into account the various comments made by catalogers on the PCC and Autocat discussion lists. Committee members voted unanimously to reject the proposal. Manon will send out a summary of the discussion and ask for votes on the various alternative options identified. We will then draft a Yale response and share it with Yale catalogers before sending it on to CPSO. The deadline is December 31.
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