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July 17, 2001

A large number of people (55 signed in) joined in a lively discussion session in Room 201 A-B of the Minneapolis Convention Center. The open-ended format of the roundtable led the group to explore a wide range of topics.

Whether or not libraries retained 856s in records for U.S. government publications was discussed first. All the respondents indicated that they retained the 856s. This led into further conversation regarding how many libraries shared bibliographic records with other libraries in their institutions. A fair number of participants indicated that they did so.

The CORC program that was presented earlier in the conference sparked a number of discussion points . . .

• Is the "quick and dirty" record that is generated good enough? At least one CORC participant indicated that the record was deemed useful by their public services staff.
• Are there any RLIN libraries participating in CORC. No one seemed to know of any.
• The relationship between CORC and metadata was briefly discussed.
• Why are some law libraries not doing CORC cataloging? The general consensus was that there was no push to so from the public services staff in their libraries.
• Wake Forest University is working on developing a common interface for their catalog and their Web page.

Other subjects that were discussed included . . .

• Genre headings for electronic resources
• Pinyin conversions
• Web clearinghouse of copy cataloging procedures

Respectfully submitted,

Chris Long
Indiana University School of Law--Indianapolis

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