Date: 5 June 2006
Present: Ellen Ellickson, Maria Hunenko, Mickey Koth, Rick Sarcia, Stephen Young, Manon Théroux (chair and recorder).
Absent: Steven Arakawa, Sarah Elman, Cécile Mandour.
Guest: Patricia Thurston.
1. NACO Trainees: Reviewer Assignments
NACO Names training will be finished next week. Reviewers will be assigned to the trainees as follows:
2. Final Revision of LCRI 22.1B
LC has issued a final version of their proposed revision for LCRI 22.1B. This version is much changed from the original proposal. Artisits and cartographers are now to be treated as authors. Although this means NACO catalogers will no longer need to determine the form of name used in reference sources when establishing post-1800 artists and cartographers, it may also result in headings that more frequently use $q rather than full forms of name, given that artists often use abbreviations when they sign their works.
Manon will send a message to YUL-NACO.
3. LC/NACO Delay in Implementing New Characters
LC has announced a delay in the implementation of new characters for use in bibliographic and authority records. LC will make an announcement once an implementation date has been determined. The new characters will include the degree sign (to be used rather than superscript 0 when making 670 citations for geographic names), the musical sharp, the inverted question mark, the inverted exclamation mark, the Euro sign, the copyright sign, the phono copyright sign, the spacing circumflex, the spacing underscore, the spacing tilde, and the spacing grave. Later on, possibly the eszett.
4. LC Series Decision: Yale Response
Manon, Steven, and Joan are drafting proposed changes to Yale policies for series in response to the LC decision to stop tracing series in bibliographic records and stop creating series authority records. The draft will be issued later this month.
5. Migrating Yale NACO Activities to OCLC
Patricia Thurston joined the group for a discussion of our plans for migrating Yale's RLIN activities to OCLC given the announcement that RLIN will soon be merged into OCLC. Patricia will be overseeing the migration. The group brainstormed on how the NACO piece of the migration should happen, decided to invite Michael Scott (a cataloger on the Latin American team who used OCLC Connexion for NACO activities when he worked at Vanderbilt) to give a demo to the committee, and set a tentative goal of completing the migration of our NACO operations to OCLC by mid-to-late August, and decided that a phased approach to implementation would work best (e.g., Catalog Department first, then other units in SML, then units outside of SML). Apparently, NELINET offers no authorities training so we will probably have to do it in-house.
[Postscript update: The training will happen not happen before September; we might be able to arrange NELINET training after all or bring in a NACO coordinator from an OCLC institution to do the training].
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