NACO Coordinating Committee Minutes

Date: 1 May 2006

Present: Steven Arakawa, Ellen Ellickson, Sarah Elman, Maria Hunenko, Mickey Koth, Cécile Mandour, Rick Sarcia, Stephen Young, Manon Théroux (chair and recorder).

1. NACO Training

Manon will be doing NACO Names Training in May-June for the following staff: Kathy Adams, Kathleen Burns, Ellen Cordes, Robert Killheffer, Youn Noh, Martha Repp, and Britta Santamauro.

2. NACO Independence Guidelines

The second revision of the draft guidelines for granting independence to NACO catalogers was distributed on the YUL-NACO list for comment in March. No responses were received. Committee members signed off on the guidelines after suggesting the following additional edits:

1) correcting the math in the Quantitative Standards section (a 10% error rate means 54 out of 60 records must be of acceptable quality) and
2) making an incorrect subfield in fields 640 and 641 be a major error (to be consistent with the other 64X fields)

The final version is here: http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/authorities/independence_policy.htm

3. Draft Revision to LCRI 22.1B

Committee members discussed LC's proposed revision to LCRI 22.1B. It was thought the sentence "Treat artists and persons involved in the graphic aspects of cartographic materials (cartographers, engravers, etc.) as non-authors" did not make it sufficiently clear that *all* artists were to be so treated. Suggestions for revision included:

"Treat artists, including persons involved in the graphic aspects of cartographic materials (cartographers, engravers, etc.), as non-authors"
or
"Treat persons involved in the graphic aspects of cartographic materials (cartographers, engravers, etc.) and artists as non-authors"

One committee member wondered whether the new revision would be problematic for cataloging films that were originally created in a country that used a nonroman-script language but then reissued by a distributor with romanized credits. Would the cataloger establish the name based on the romanized form even if that form did not follow the ALA-LC romanization schemes? The consensus was that this situation was analogous to cataloging any translated work and the cataloger would not base the heading on usage in such a case.

Manon will convey the committee's respinse to CPSO before the May 12 deadline for comments.

4. LC Series Decision: Yale Impact

Committee members discussed the potential impact of the LC decision to stop tracing series in preparation for a larger discussion to take place May 5 in the Lecture Hall. The larger discussion will include staff from the Cataloging Coordinating Council, the SML Catalog Department, the Acquisitions Department, and Research Services and Collections.