The meeting was chaired by Carol Shapiro. The speakers from the Library of Congress included Mark Strattner, Aaron Kuperman, and Jolande Goldberg.

Mark Strattner is the Legal Collection Development Specialist at the Library of Congress Law Library. Mark replaced Marie Whited as the liaison between the Law Library of Congress and the LC's law cataloging team.

There are several major changes in the Law Library of Congress. One is the loss of Marie Whited's cataloging expertise in the Law Library; she has left LC to work at Yale Law Library. The Library of Congress Law Library still has a large amount of uncataloged materials including microforms, rare books and law titles shelved in the general collection. Law serial titles cataloged before 1968 still need to be classified. Like other law libraries, the Law Library of Congress also eagerly awaits the completion of the class K schedules: JZ, KZ, and KB. LC is committed to reducing backlogs, and hopefully, 80 percent of the arrearage will be cataloged by the year 2000.

As of June 27, LC had recataloged all Shepards as serials. CD's, disks, and other computer files held in the "Machine Readable Reading Room" before its closure in December 1995 have been redistributed to the reading rooms. They have also been assigned LC class number plus a simplified cutter number. Louisiana codes are now being cataloged together in KFL30. With Marie's help the BNA Labor Relations Reporter is being recataloged and reclassified in KF3315. The American State Papers and the United States Congressional Serial Set are now classified in KF. The Law Library of Congress hopes to have all reading room materials classified in the K class by year 1999. LC will cooperate with other law libraries in reclassifying foreign materials or will simply make use of other library's records. LC froze their foreign approval plans to cover the serials cost overrun.

Aaron Kuperman has been a Subject Cataloger with the Law Team at the Library of Congress Social Science Cataloging Division since 1987. There are three subject catalogers on the Law Team. They catalog about 12,000 new titles each year. The Law Team has always enjoyed support from AALL and the Law Library of Congress; vacancies on the Law Team have always been replaced. The Law Team is also the most productive one among LC cataloging teams. A third of the materials that the law team is responsible for requires only subject cataloging (classification and subject headings). LC uses cataloging records produced by other libraries as much as possible and will upgrade the copy record as needed. Aaron asked all law catalogers to let LC know if they see anything wrong with the classification schedule or with LC's classification numbers. LC will revise a record, if needed and will revise subject headings retrospectively to 1968. Catalogers at LC particularly need other catalogers' help in understanding local headings. Please send proposed subject headings or classification to LC. Any law library which is interested in joining LC's program for cooperative cataloging, should contact Aaron Kuperman.

Jolande Goldberg, the Senior Cataloging Policy Specialist in the Cataloging Policy & Support Office at the Library of Congress, found this conference very productive. At the TS-SIS Cataloging and Classification Committee meeting and the Cataloging and Classification Forum meeting, she received valuable input from committee members and other law catalogers. The law catalogers generally prefer to see a "revised" KF schedule, not just a new KF schedule with accumulated changes. In the process of converting the class K schedules to LC MARC format, she discovered inconsistencies in the form tables. She plans to clarify and to eliminate repetition in the form tables in subclass K and the European schedules. Many form tables have been incorporated into the schedule. After returning to LC, Jolande will finalize the form tables. The final version will be published in the Cataloging Service Bulletin.