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The New York City Art Catalogers Discussion Group (CDG) met on January 24th =
at
Bobst Library, New York University. The principal topic on the agenda was
reports from ALA Midwinter in San Antonio. The big news was the approval by
MARBI of a subfield (X00 =24j) to codify the =22school of=22 part of a =
heading such
as School of Rembrandt.
The group also discussed the education of catalogers.
A fuller report of the meeting is available at
http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/9783/cdg/cdg0001.html
That report includes a link to more ALA reports at
http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/9783/alagen.html
The report of the CDG meeting is also copied below. If you have questions, =
do
not hesitate to ask me (sherman.clarke=40nyu.edu) or the other catalogers
mentioned in the report.
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Catalogers Discussion Group
24 January 2000
Bobst Library, New York University
Twenty art catalogers gathered at Bobst Library to hear reports on ALA
Midwinter which was held in San Antonio from 14-17 January 2000.
After introductions, several items of business were discussed. Danny =
Fermon,
our fearless coordinator, is at home, recovering from major surgery. In the
short term, it was decided that CDG notices and queries would be put on
ARLIS-L. Support was expressed for using ARLIS-L more generally for
cataloging issues, where the messages will mix with the other messages of
broader and narrower interest. Carol Pardo invited volunteers to be =
moderator
of the Cataloging Section for next year since Emily Roth has indicated that
she won=92t be able to do it.
Sherman had heard from a colleague at ALA that there had been a discussion =
on
AUTOCAT about the LC proposals for changes in art subject headings. No one
had any information about the messages. It was suggested that the AUTOCAT
archive would have the messages. =5BThe AUTOCAT archive is at
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/autocat/=5D
Liz O=92Keefe led off the ALA reports with a discussion of MARBI Proposal
2000-04 which established a subfield (X00 =24j) to handle attribution
information in anonymous personal names, a.k.a. the =93School of =
Rembrandt=94
issue. This proposal came from ARLIS/NA. Other suggested means of =
expressing
this information were corporate phrase which was eliminated because these
headings refer to individuals=3B 720 for uncontrolled names because these =
are
controlled or at least the artist name part of the heading is likely to be
controlled=3B X00 =24g for miscellaneous information because this is a known=
type
of information. While a heading like =93Rembrandt, School of=94 might refer=
to
more than one unidentified artist, it is like an undifferentiated personal
name. The subfield was also approved for the authority format because the
qualifier would be needed in artist/title records for individual works of =
art
and references. ARLIS/NA has volunteered to work on a list of codes for =
=24j,
recognizing that it will never be complete and that some catalogers will use
the term that appears in the source data, whether museum collection catalog =
or
image vendor list. MARBI also approved the renaming of the subfield =24u in=
856
as =93Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)=94 rather than =93Uniform Resource =
Locator
(URL)=94 which is only one of the uniform resource identifiers. A =
discussion
paper on integrating the Community Information Format and the Bibliographic
Format led to a consensus that the formats should not be integrated at this
time -- their 008s are very different, CIF records often don=92t have =
titles,
different staff may input the records, they can be searched in an integrated
way even if they don=92t share a format.
The proposals are linked to the MARBI agenda at
http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marbi/mw2000=5Fage.html
Daniel Starr then reported on the Cataloging Advisory Committee response to
the proposed changes in LC subject headings for art. The implementation
schedule of any changes is not known. CAC will be meeting on Saturday, =
5:30-7
p.m. during ARLIS/NA in Pittsburgh to discuss such topics as building names =
as
names vs. subjects, =24j terminology, and a core record and/or policy =
guidelines
for art exhibition catalogs.
Daniel then reported on the Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access.
Barbara Tillett reported on LC activities, including digital initiatives for
which they plan on being the library of last resort as they are for other
resources and implementation of the new Voyager library system. Brian
Schottlaender reported on Joint Steering Committee activities, including the
approval of the 1999 amendments package which will be available in both
electronic and print form. JSC approved an appendix for initial articles, a
much looser treatment of British terms of honor, parts of the seriality
proposals, a rearrangement of AACR2 by area of description, the report on =
the
cardinal principle (rule 0.24), and a new appendix describing the major and
minor changes which should be considered when determining whether to make a
new record for an item. JSC also discussed the spelling of =93disk.=94 =
Americans
had proposed sticking with the status quo, i.e. disk for magnetic disks, =
disc
for optical discs. They also discussed again a lost proposal clarifying the
definition of =93work=94 in general and in reference to musical works. =
CC:DA will
sponsor a pre-conference workshop on metadata (6-7 July in Chicago before =
ALA
Annual=3B approx. =24235). With the implementation of the new LC system and=
the
closing of the old system, authority records are no longer accessible in the
LC database (references do show) and LC is working with Endeavor and hopes =
to
have them accessible again by the end of 2000. They are also working on a
thesaurus view of LCSH records.
There was a SACO workshop on classification numbers (no attenders were =
present
and the workshop will be repeated in July) and on events and buildings.
Including classification numbers on subject heading proposals is encouraged =
in
SACO. Claudia Hill and Sherman both attended at least part of the
events/buildings workshop. The vast bulk of the time was devoted to events
which can be topics, corporate bodies, or conferences. Daniel noted that =
CAC
is working, as invited by LC, on a proposal to move building names from SAF =
to
NAF.
Sherman also mentioned some of the highlights of other meetings (fuller
reports on web page mentioned below). None of the prototype gateways for
subject access via metadata seemed to be simultaneously searching multiple
thesauri. At a forum on subject analysis and metadata, a new project at =
OCLC
called FAST (faceted assignment of subject terminology) was described.
Subject headings will be deconstructed for post-coordinated searching. The
terms will be controlled terms taken from LCSH and coding will indicate the
function. Technical services directors of large research libraries =
discussed
=93Technical services in the new millennium.=94 It was noted that with =
vendors
doing the easy tasks, there is no =93bib nursery=94 to get new catalogers =
started.
This led to a discussion of library education for cataloging. Alison =
Dickey,
now an assistant dean at the Palmer School, discussed some of the challenges
of teaching she sees, and invited catalogers to consider giving guest visits
to classes in the =93organization of knowledge=94 as they are now calling =
their
=93introduction to bibliographic control=94 course.
More detailed reports of some of these meetings may be found at
http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/9783/alagen.html
The next meeting of the CDG will take place at the Whitney Museum, hosted by
Carol Rusk, on 3 April 2000. The major topic on the agenda at this time is
followup from the ARLIS/NA conference which will take place in Pittsburgh in
later March.
notes compiled by sherman.clarke=40nyu.edu
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