Minutes of the PLA Cataloging Needs of Public Libraries Committee
ALA Midwinter Conference, San Antonio
January 17, 2000
Minutes submitted by Joanne Gilmore, Columbus Metropolitan LibraryThe meeting began at 2 pm Margaret Shen, chair, led the meeting.
Margaret announced that she agreed for us to co-sponsor a program at ALA Annual in Chicago about cataloging children's materials.
Winton Matthews gave a report for the Library of Congress. LC will have a stamp and silver and bimetallic coins for sale to celebrate their bicentennial. Both the stamp and coins will be available as of April 24, 2000. The Library's ILS conversion is progressing. More than 16 million bibliographic and authority records have been converted. By Fall, 2000, they hope that authority records will be retrievable. CIP is doing well but regular books are a little behind. Regene Ross, Chief of the Social Sciences Cataloging Division retired at the end of 1999. Until the position is filled, team leaders will rotate the duties. LC plans to implement the "1998 revision" of AACR2 in February or March, 2000. It had been delayed pending the implementation of the new ILS. Catalogers from the History and Literature Division are assigning subject headings to individual works of fiction as an experiment based on draft guidelines from the CPSO. Various sections of the LC Class tables have been completed or near completion. A new web-version for LC classification should soon be available by subscription. Updates on DDC include proposals for an expansion of sign language and expansion for Chinese dialects. Also, LC has begun to use the new literature period tables. The first non-US editor of DDC is Giles Martin from Australia. He is working out of the Dublin (OH) OCLC office.
Margaret reported from CC:DA: MARBI will sponsor a program at Annual. No decision was reached on music uniform titles. No decision was reached on whether "disc" or "disk" should be used. IFLA will be held in Boston in August, 2001. Amendments to AACR2 should be published in paper and electronic format simultaneously. The file can be downloaded free or one can buy a disc for $15. Map Cataloging Committee is in the approval stage for a major update of the chapter. MARBI is discussing adding a subfield z for local holdings.
Ava Smith is preparing a program for the ALA 2001 conference on Practical Cataloging, geared towards small libraries.
Dennis Winters has agreed to talk to SACO about adding cross-references between AC and LCSH headings.
"Year of the Dragon, Mandate to Change: Challenges of the Pinyin Conversion in the Online Environment " will be a program on Sunday July 9 (9:30-12:30) in Chicago. Hideyuki Morimoto requested that our committee act as a co-sponsor to this program which the Cataloging and Classification: Asian and African Materials Committee will be presenting. The committee agreed that this would be appropriate. For more on the conversion, look at http://lcweb.gov/catdir/pinyin.
A program for 2002 could relate to Web Dewey. Dewey for Windows will be phased out. Print and web will be the access for Dewey. DFW 2.0 will have a much better note feature.
In attendance:
Lisa Marie Bartusik, Allen County Public Library, IN
Virginia Overberg, Baker & Taylor
Eleanor Fanicase, Baker & Taylor
Lynn Holmgren, Baker & Taylor
Chris Grabenstatter, OCLC
Jeff Ahrens, Quality Books
Dennis Winters, Grand Rapids Public Library, MI
Maxine Sherman, Cuyahoga County Public Library, OH
Wei Jeng-Chu, Indian Trails Public Library, IL
Andrea Kappler, Evansville-Vanderburgh Public Library, IN
Mary Grathwol, Santa Fe Public Library, NM
Winton Matthews, Library of Congress
Hideyuki Morimoto, University of California, CA
Joanne Gilmore, Columbus Metropolitan Library, OH
Margaret Shen, Cleveland Public Library, OH