TS-SIS Standing Committee on Cataloging and Classification		Minutes

July 19, 1999

Report of the Chair and Old Business:

Chair Melody Lembke opened the meeting on Monday, July 19, at 7:05 am by introducing several sub committees being formed. Her goal is to have a vehicle for continuing work from year to year and for giving feedback to the Library of Congress as needed. She asked for volunteers for several standing sub-committees and there were sign-up sheets available for those interested. The several groups are: Description and Entry, Subject Analysis, and Administration. Some concrete tasks were set for these groups. The Subject group will be discussing the creation of a list of inherently legal subject headings that as yet do not have a law and legislation subdivision with the end goal of making suggestions for enhancements to LC. The Administration group will be handling issues relevant to the use of paraprofessionals for copy cataloging. An additional sub-committee was set up to discuss the issue of the use of the geographical subdivision Great Britain versus England in subject headings. John Hostage will chair this group. The other committees still need Chairs.

Reports

ALA ALCTS Subject Analysis Committee [SAC]: Liaison Marie Whited reported on the work of this committee. Her full reports from both the Midwinter and the Summer meetings are available at the TS-SIS Web site: This was Marie’s last report. Melody Lembke will follow her as the AALL representative to this ALA committee.

ALA ALCTS Cataloging and Classification: Description and Access [CC:DA]: Liaison Ann Sitkin’s report is also available at the TS-SIS Web site. One of the topics the committee is working on is the revision of AACR2R to accommodate seriality. Ann invited all present to attend the program with Jean Hirons based on her paper on seriality with special emphasis on loose-leafs. This program will be followed by a rountable discussion. Ann also announced that she has a draft of the legal serials module for the CONSER manual if anyone is interested in looking at it. This was written by Rhonda Lawrence and revised by Ann Sitkin and John Hostage.

ALA MARBI committee. Our liaison Rhonda Lawrence would like to set up a committee to give a response to MARBI discussion paper 114. Rhonda sent around a sign-up sheet for those interested in this committee. The paper is available on the Web at: http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marbi/dp/dp114.html.

Jolande Goldberg of LC reported on the development of the LC classification schedules for religious legal systems. She is almost finished with KBR, KBS and KBP. KB will be comparative religions law. KBR is for Canon Law. KBS is for the Catholic Church and Modern Canon Law. Drafts of both schedules are on the Web and are being reviewed by Pontifical University and the Vatican. KBP for Islamic Law is mostly approved. She is working in partnership with Lesley Wilkins and the Islamic Legal Studies program at Harvard Law School. This schedule is not yet available on the Web. She will begin working on a schedule for Jewish Law in the fall and will be finished by next year in time for the bicentennial of the Library of Congress.

New business

There was a very lively discussion on program planning for AALL Philadelphia 2000. Aaron Kuperman of LC suggested a program on the new religious law classification schedules along with or in addition to a program on religious law for non-specialists. Aaron will propose this program. It was also suggested that we put together another “Cataloging a la Carte” type program. Reggie Wallen implored the group to write well developed and thought out proposals. This year’s programs were accepted because they were good and not because there was a technical services track. She explained the process the education committee goes through to select programs, stressing that they have a tight time schedule and need to see catchy, well written proposals which are not full of jargon.

The RFP’s sent to the TS-SIS from the AALL Professional Development committee and distributed at the Business Meeting were discussed. The question was what do we as a committee want to do. Several suggestions were made, but nothing concrete was decided. Much of the discussion revolved around the short notice surrounding these RFP’s. It was mentioned that much time and work goes into planning something like a Basic or Advanced Cataloging Institute. Others mentioned programs that have already been planned and could be recycled.

Final announcement

The meeting ended at 8:30 am. with Melody introducing Chris Long as the new chair of the Cataloging and Classification committee.