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> I'm forwarding the following on behalf of Heidi Hass: > > > > Daniel Fermon > Assistant Librarian > Museum of Modern Art > 11 W. 53rd St. > New York, N.Y. > (212) 708-9434 > > > > > New York Catalogers' Discussion Group > > July 1, 2002 at the Pierpont Morgan Library > > Minutes > > The meeting began with a report from Liz O'Keefe on the Machine-Readable > Bibliographic Information Committee (MARBI) meeting at the American > Library > Association conference in Atlanta. Particular topics of interest were the > addition of URI subfields to 506 (Restrictions on Access Note) and field > 540 > (Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note), and the addition of MARC tag > 563 > for binding information. Discussion focused on the possible uses of the > 563 > tag, particularly as it might relate to artist's books. LC will be > implementing > new fields once per year, but Sherman Clarke was not sure whether this > will > follow ALA's annual or mid-winter meeting. The placement of copy-specific > information into Holdings records was discussed, and generally thought to > be > unsatisfactory, as it's not searchable there, and doesn't't get loaded > into the > utilities. > > OCLC's proposed FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) was > reviewed. > It is based on LCSH, but headings are broken up into their various > subdivisions, > and applied separately. It grew out of OCLC's CORC project (Cooperative > Online > Resource Catalog), and is intended to facilitate subject analysis of > electronic > resources, but some members of the group were skeptical as to its utility. > (See > http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2002/2002-13.html for more information). > > Sherman spoke about the CC:DA meetings; he has posted Anne Champagne's > notes at > www.artcataloging.net. LC has begun receiving snail mail again, however > much of > it is damaged from the irradiation process. Serials, electronic resources > and > the new category of integrating resources were discussed; examples given > include > a museum website and databases. . LC will implement the revisions to AACR2 > on > Dec. 1, 2002. LC's authority file is available on the web from July 1: > Maria > Oldal passed around some printouts taken from the site. It can be found at > http://authorities.loc.gov. > > Sherman has also posted links to round robin reports of the "Big heads" > (aka > ALCTS Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries Discussion > Group). They discussed a study of e-journals, among other things. (Minutes > for > the Atlanta meeting are not yet available). Members of the CONSER Task > Force on > Publication Patterns and Holdings made a presentation to the Big heads on > the > publication pattern initiative (more here: > http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/meetings.html). Compliance with MARC > Holdings is > still not complete. > > OCLC is previewing its new cataloging interface called Connexion at > http://www.oclc.org/connexion. It will eventually replace both Passport > and Cat > ME, and is intended to be the single route to OCLC cataloging services. > > Sherman then described the joint meeting of MARBI and CC:DA on the FRBR > (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) model and how it > relates to > possible changes in the cataloging rules and the MARC 21 formats. See > http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.htm and > http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/personal/jca/ccda/207-ann.html#marbi > for > more information. He also mentioned its counterpart, the Functional > Requirements > for Authority Numbers and Records (FRANAR), and pointed out that AACR2 was > weak > when dealing with works of art, whereas the "work, expression, > manifestation, > item" approach of FRBR could be more flexible. > > Changes to chapters 9 and 12 were discussed at an ALCTS meeting. (See > http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/conser/aacr2002/A2slides.html for Jean Hirons' > power > point slides for a presentation at the NASIG meeting in June) > > John Maier attended the Authority control in the online environment > discussion > group of LITA (minutes to be available at www.lita.org). The revised Bath > profile for testing Z39.50 compliance by vendors were discussed by Larry > Dixon > (LC). Glenn Patton (OCLC) described international efforts to improve > authority > records and mapping. Tony Olson (Northwestern) described mapping MeSH to > LCSH. > > Sherman attended Subject Advisory Committee where Lois Chan's paper on > semantic > interoperability for IFLA's Glasgow meeting was discussed (see the paper > at > http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla68/papers/008-122e.pdf) > > Liz reported on the RBMS session on Second generation library systems, > which was > narrowly focused on details. The consensus was that systems are better, > but > that there's no guarantee that 3rd generation systems will make cataloging > easier. > > The next meeting will be at NYU's Bobst Library on Sept. 23. > > -- > V. 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