CLASSIFICATION AND SUBJECT CATALOGING ADVISORY WORKING GROUP (CSCAG) Annual Reports
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2016 - 2017 CLASSIFICATION AND SUBJECT CATALOGING ADVISORY WORKING GROUP (CSCAG)
CATALOGING AND CLASSIFICATION STANDING COMMITTEE
ANNUAL REPORT 2016-2017Submitted by Yael Mandelstam.
SACO LAW FUNNEL
In the past year, The Library of Congress approved the following proposals sent via the Funnel:
LCSH
- Air defense identification zones
- Terrorist organizations
- Gene therapy-Law and legislation
- Three-dimensional printing-Law and legislation
- Patent examiners
LCGFT
- Municipal ordinances (revised scope note of existing heading)
- By-laws (revised scope note of existing heading)
- Bar journals (added several 455; deleted one 555 on existing heading)
- Statutes and codes (added several 455 to existing heading)
- Town laws, Medieval (canceled heading)
GENRE/FORM RETROSPECTIVE PROJECT
Since our last meeting in Chicago, CSCAG members tackled the following terms: Legislative hearings, Hornbooks (Law), Court rules, Official gazettes, Restatements of the law, and Session laws. The group also had some discussion on Hearings vs. Legislative hearings, which will continue at our upcoming CSCAG meeting.
The Genre/Form Retrospective Project involves working on strategies for identifying bibliographic records for each genre/form term. Since none of the strategies are foolproof, the process is slow and cumbersome, and is further hampered by the small number of members with the kind of access needed to test the strategies and clean up search results. The viability of this project will be discussed at the group’s meeting in Austin.
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2015 - 2016 CLASSIFICATION AND SUBJECT CATALOGING ADVISORY WORKING GROUP (CSCAG)
CATALOGING AND CLASSIFICATION STANDING COMMITTEE
ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016Submitted by Yael Mandelstam & Suzanne Graham.
LAW GENRE/FORM TERMS
In the past year, CSCAG has tackled the following terms:
By-laws and Municipal ordinances. Since some municipalities establish bylaws, the group thought that it would be helpful to make a clearer distinction between the two terms via the following scope notes:
By-laws: Rules or administrative provisions adopted by an organization for its internal governance and its external dealings; for by-laws established by cities, towns, or other local governmental entities, use Municipal ordinances.
Municipal ordinances: Laws established by cities, towns, or other local governmental entities; for rules or administrative provisions adopted by an organization for its internal governance and its external dealings, use By-laws.
Compiled statutes. The group debated a proposal to add a new term for general (non-topical) compilations of statutes, but could not reach an agreement on the usefulness of the term or the terminology that would clearly distinguish it from other statutes and codes.
Legal Opinions. Two terms are currently available for legal opinions: Court decisions and opinions, which can only be applied to judicial decisions and opinions, and Attorneys general’s opinions. Since no term is currently available for other types of opinions such as advisory opinions, the group agreed to propose the broader term Legal opinions. The reference structure for the term has been resolved, but the scope note has not yet been finalized.
Model acts and Uniform laws. Since the fine distinctions between these terms proved difficult to understand, the group submitted a proposal to cancel Uniform laws and change Model acts to Model laws as follows:
Model laws
Drafts of laws proposed by a person or body other than a legislature, intended to be adopted by multiple jurisdictions either verbatim or with modifications.
UF Uniform acts
UF Uniform laws
BT Law materials
[Remove BT Instructional and educational works]Town laws, Medieval. During a lengthy discussion of this term, the group realized that we were trying too hard to fit a single term to a myriad of legal documents from a period that saw a great variety of local forms of government with a wide range of jurisdictional powers and authorities.
During our discussions, ‘medieval town laws’ were defined as statutes, ordinances, charters, privileges, constitutions, etc., all of which already have existing terms in LCGFT (Charters and articles of incorporation, Constitutions, Municipal ordinances, Privileges and immunities, Statutes and codes, or the more specific Coutumes, Custumals, and Rechtsbücher). The group submitted a proposal to cancel the term and recommends that if the time period is deemed helpful, catalogers can express it via the subject headings and/or the 388 field.
RETROSPECTIVE APPLICATION OF GENRE/FORM TERMS
CSCAG members are currently working on strategies for identifying bibliographic records for each genre/form term, with the understanding that few strategies, if any, are going to be foolproof. This means that when running a strategy on a database, the search results have to be carefully scrutinized and irrelevant records removed before globally applying a term to the remaining records. The project is challenging since very few members in the group have the kind of access needed to test the strategies and clean up the search results. So far we have created strategies for Casebooks, Constitutions, Legislative hearings, and Treaties, and plan to continue tackling other terms in the following year.
COMMENTS ON LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GENRE/FORM TERMS MANUAL, INSTRUCTION SHEET J230 (LEGISLATION AND LEGISLATIVE HISTORIES)
The group reviewed the instruction sheet (37 KB PDF) and in March 2016 sent a few proposed changes to LC’s Policy and Standards Division (PSD), including replacing some of the examples and revising the following definitions:
Background
Current: Legislation consists of texts of individual laws passed by legislatures and also compilations of such laws.Proposed: Legislation consists of texts of individual laws that govern jurisdictions and also compilations of such laws.
Law commentaries
Current: Commentaries with the text of legislation. Generally assign the term Law commentaries to a resource that contains a commentary and the text of the legislation. Also assign a term describing the text of the legislation (see sec. 2.a above) if it would provide useful access.Proposed: Commentaries with the text of legislation. Generally assign the term Law commentaries to a resource that contains a commentary and the text of the legislation. Assign an additional term describing the text of the legislation (see sec. 2.a above) if it would enhance user access to the text of the law, such as cases when it’s unique or hard to find, and/or when the entire text of the law is presented separately from the commentary.
COMMENTS ON DEMONYMS FOR LOCAL PLACES IN LC DEMOGRAPHIC GROUP TERMS: ANALYSIS OF THE ISSUES: A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT PREPARED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PSD
In January 2016 CSCAG offered feedback on PSD’s list of questions regarding the potential establishment of local demonyms for Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms (LCDGT). Generally, the group did not think that demonyms were very useful to law libraries and that establishing lower-jurisdiction demonyms would be particularly challenging and should be avoided. If the project went forward anyway, the group thought that conflicts should always be anticipated and all demonyms would need to be separately disambiguated (e.g., establish separate terms for Parisians from Paris, France, and Paris, Texas). We also commented that the more efficient form–though not necessarily the most elegant–would be [Name of place] resident, which was one of the variants considered by PSD for the disambiguation of local demonyms.
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2014 - 2015 CLASSIFICATION AND SUBJECT CATALOGING ADVISORY WORKING GROUP (CSCAG)
CATALOGING AND CLASSIFICATION STANDING COMMITTEE
ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015LAW GENRE/FORM TERMS
In the past year, CSCAG members were asked to resolve a few issues with specific law genre/form terms:
Bar journals. Originally, this term was meant to be used for the single official publication of each bar association, but no other term was available for other bar publications. After some discussion and consultation with reference librarians, the group decided to expand the scope to “periodicals published by bars and other lawyers associations”, and add a few UFs such as Law society journals and Lawyers association journals to make it less U.S-centric.
Legislative speeches. At the request of LC’s Policy and Standards Division (PSD), the group agreed to eliminate Legislative speeches and make it a UF under Speeches. The rationale was that many other types of speeches—such as Inaugural addresses, Political speeches, State of the Union addresses—have all been collapsed in LCGFT into the more general term Speeches, and there seemed to be no compelling reason to treat Legislative speeches differently.
Legal Opinions. Two terms are currently available for legal opinions: Court decisions and opinions, which can only be applied to judicial decisions and opinions, and Attorneys general’s opinions. Since no term is currently available for other types of opinions such as advisory opinions, the group agreed to propose the broader term Legal opinions. The reference structure for the term has been resolved, but the scope note has not yet been finalized.
Compiled statutes. The group debated a proposal to add a new term for general (non-topical) compilations of statutes, but no conclusion has been reached. The issue will be further discussed at the CSCAG meeting in Philadelphia.
GENERAL TERMS RELEVANT TO LAW LIBRARIES
Shortly after the new general terms were added to LCGFT, CSCAG members reviewed the terms and compiled a list of 62 general terms relevant to law libraries (e.g., Annual reports, Bibliographies, Conference papers and proceedings, Dictionaries, Directories, Encyclopedias, Finding aids, Indexes). A new document combining the law term and the selected general terms is available on the CSCAG site.
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2013 - 2014 CLASSIFICATION AND SUBJECT CATALOGING ADVISORY WORKING GROUP (CSCAG)
CATALOGING AND CLASSIFICATION STANDING COMMITTEE
ANNUAL REPORT 2013-2014Submitted by Yael Mandelstam
Retrospective application of law genre/form terms: The WG continues to develop and test strategies for identifying bibliographic records for the retrospective application of law genre/form terms. The purpose of this project is to add relevant law genre/form terms to bibliographic records on OCLC and local databases.
Best Practices for the Application of Law Genre/Form Terms: The WG completed its work on this document. The law best practices will be incorporated into the Library of Congress Genre/Form Headings Manual, which is being prepared by the LC Standards and Policy Division (PSD) and SAC Subcommittee on Genre/Form Implementation.
Field 751: Since genre/form terms cannot subdivide geographically, the WG considered the option of using field 751 (Added Entry-Geographic Name) to record the jurisdiction associated with the work. The WG decided not to recommend this option, and instead will explore options for continuing to record the jurisdiction in the 6xx fields.
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2012 - 2013 CLASSIFICATION AND SUBJECT CATALOGING POLICY ADVISORY WORKING GROUP
CATALOGING AND CLASSIFICATION STANDING COMMITTEE
ANNUAL REPORT 2012/2013Submitted by Suzanne Graham, Chair
MEMBER QUESTION FORUM PROJECT (ASK AN EXPERT)
Cindy May, Coordinator, clmay@wisc.edu
This project established a forum where TS-SIS members could submit questions on law classification or subject headings and have them reviewed and answered by CSCP volunteers.
Members of this task group created a submission form, and webmaster Martin Wisneski linked it to the TS-SIS website. The link reads: “Get Your Classification and Subject Heading Questions Answered!” Submitted forms are automatically emailed to project volunteers, who then discuss the questions among themselves and provide answers. Over the course of the year the forum received and answered seven queries, generally after significant consultation. Aaron Kuperman has been especially active and helpful in crafting answers to submitted questions.
Member Question Forum Project volunteers: Jolande Goldberg, Aaron Kuperman, Kathy Lin, Cindy May, Karen Selden.
SACO FUNNEL PROJECT
Suzanne Graham, Coordinator, srgraham@uga.edu
The law funnel encourages law librarians to continue to develop subject headings and classification numbers for law-related topics. Any law librarian is welcome to submit a proposal by emailing the form to the funnel coordinator. The funnel administrators make initial assessments and adjustments before posting viable submissions to the CSCP electronic list for wider comment. Vetted proposals are refined, and the funnel coordinator submits them to SACO for consideration.
I’ve been reviewing the SACO manual and some of the other resources on the SACO site. I welcome and encourage TS-SIS members to review these as well:
- http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/saco/sacogenfaq.html
- http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/saco/resources.html#law
- http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/saco/documents/SACOManual2007.pdf
A TS-SIS sponsored program at the AALL Annual Meeting entitled “Creating Legal Subject Headings” is scheduled for Sunday, July 22, 1:30-2:30 in HCC-Room 202. Presenters include George Prager, Paul Frank, and me. The synopsis reads: “The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) will grow and evolve only if librarians take an active role in its curation. Through hands-on practice, participants will work together to conceive, compose, evaluate, and submit a draft proposal for SACO of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), the editorial body that ultimately adds and changes terms in LCSH, via the TS-SIS Law Funnel. This program will involve participants in the kinds of discussions in which the LCSH editorial board engages.” I hope this program spurs a flurry of submissions to the funnel.
An article about the funnel project that George Prager and I are co-authoring for a pending issue of Spectrum will further publicize the project.
SACO Funnel Project volunteers: Kathy Lin, Cindy May, Caroline Young.
GENRE/FORM PROJECT
Submitted by Yael Mandelstam, Coordinator, ymandelstam@law.fordham.edu
The Law Genre/Form Implementation Task Group is co-chaired by Robert Rendall and me. The group is developing strategies for identifying WorldCat records for retrospective application of law genre/form terms. The plan is to add the appropriate terms to WorldCat and then get a crosswalk between the OCLC numbers and the law genre/form terms so individual libraries can globally merge these terms into their existing records. Originally the group also planned to post the strategies on the AALL TS-SIS site for libraries that prefer to run these strategies locally. However, this may need further discussion since the strategies are not foolproof, requiring careful analysis and cleanup of the search results before the terms can be globally added to the records.
In the past year the group developed strategies for several terms, and Ed O’Neill from OCLC and I are currently testing these strategies on a small sample of WorldCat records. I am using MarcEdit and Excel to analyze and cleanup the data I received from Ed. Since no strategy is foolproof, the process is quite challenging and will become even more demanding when the search is done on a much larger section of WorldCat, but I believe it is doable.
Genre/Form Project volunteers: Melissa Beck, Lia Contursi, Jolande Goldberg, Suzanne Graham, Joni Herbst, Tom Latuszek, Yael Mandelstam, Ellen McGrath, Keiko Okuhara, George Prager, Robert Rendall, Pat Sayre-McCoy, Sallie Smith, Jessie Tam, Christina Tarr, Sally Wambold, Caroline Young.
OTHER NEWS
- The Classification and Subject Cataloging Policy Advisory Working Group Meeting is scheduled for Monday, July 23, 7:00-8:30 in HCC-Room 301.
- Due to employment uncertainties, I will be retiring as chair effective July 1, but fortunately the extremely capable Suzanne Graham has agreed to succeed me as chair.
CLASSIFICATION AND SUBJECT CATALOGING POLICY ADVISORY WORKING GROUP
Chair:
2011/2012: Cindy May, University of Wisconsin
2012/2013: Suzanne Graham, University of GeorgiaMembers:
Amalia Contursi, Columbia University
Pam Deemer, Emory University
Joni Herbst, University of Oregon
Aaron Kuperman, Library of Congress
Tom Latuszek, Florida Coastal School of Law
Kathy Lin, UC Davis
Yael Mandelstam, Fordham University
Ellen McGrath, SUNY Buffalo
Robert Rendall, Columbia University
Pat Sayre McCoy, University of Chicago
Sallie Smith, University of Pittsburgh
Sally H. Wambold, University of Richmond
Caroline Young, Rutgers UniversityEx-officio:
Jolande Goldberg, Library of Congress
George Prager, New York University -
2011 - 2012 CLASSIFICATION AND SUBJECT CATALOGING POLICY ADVISORY WORKING GROUP
CATALOGING AND CLASSIFICATION STANDING COMMITTEE
ANNUAL REPORT 2011/2012Submitted by Cindy May, Chair
MEMBER QUESTION FORUM PROJECT (ASK AN EXPERT)
Submitted by Cindy May, Coordinator (clmay@wisc.edu)
This project established a forum where TS-SIS members could submit questions on law classification or subject headings and have them reviewed and answered by CSCP volunteers.
Members of this task group created a submission form, and webmaster Martin Wisneski linked it to the TS-SIS website. The link reads: “Get Your Classification and Subject Heading Questions Answered!” Submitted forms are automatically emailed to project volunteers, who then discuss the questions among themselves and provide answers. Over the course of the year the forum received and answered seven queries, generally after significant consultation. Aaron Kuperman has been especially active and helpful in crafting answers to submitted questions.
Member Question Forum Project volunteers: Jolande Goldberg, Aaron Kuperman, Kathy Lin, Cindy May, Karen Selden
SACO FUNNEL PROJECT
Submitted by Suzanne Graham, Coordinator (srgraham@uga.edu)
The law funnel encourages law librarians to continue to develop subject headings and classification numbers for law-related topics. Any law librarian is welcome to submit a proposal by emailing the form to the funnel coordinator. The funnel administrators make initial assessments and adjustments before posting viable submissions to the CSCP electronic list for wider comment. Vetted proposals are refined, and the funnel coordinator submits them to SACO for consideration.
I’ve been reviewing the SACO manual and some of the other resources on the SACO site. I welcome and encourage TS-SIS members to review these as well:
- http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/saco/sacogenfaq.html
- http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/saco/resources.html#law
- http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/saco/documents/SACOManual2007.pdf
A TS-SIS sponsored program at the AALL Annual Meeting entitled “Creating Legal Subject Headings” is scheduled for Sunday, July 22, 1:30-2:30 in HCC-Room 202. Presenters include George Prager, Paul Frank, and me. The synopsis reads: “The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) will grow and evolve only if librarians take an active role in its curation. Through hands-on practice, participants will work together to conceive, compose, evaluate, and submit a draft proposal for SACO of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), the editorial body that ultimately adds and changes terms in LCSH, via the TS-SIS Law Funnel. This program will involve participants in the kinds of discussions in which the LCSH editorial board engages.” I hope this program spurs a flurry of submissions to the funnel.
An article about the funnel project that George Prager and I are co-authoring for a pending issue of Spectrum will further publicize the project.
SACO Funnel Project volunteers: Kathy Lin, Cindy May, Caroline Young.
GENRE/FORM PROJECT
Submitted by Yael Mandelstam, Coordinator (ymandelstam@law.fordham.edu)
The Law Genre/Form Implementation Task Group is co-chaired by Robert Rendall and me. The group is developing strategies for identifying WorldCat records for retrospective application of law genre/form terms. The plan is to add the appropriate terms to WorldCat and then get a crosswalk between the OCLC numbers and the law genre/form terms so individual libraries can globally merge these terms into their existing records. Originally the group also planned to post the strategies on the AALL TS-SIS site for libraries that prefer to run these strategies locally. However, this may need further discussion since the strategies are not foolproof, requiring careful analysis and cleanup of the search results before the terms can be globally added to the records.
In the past year the group developed strategies for several terms, and Ed O’Neill from OCLC and I are currently testing these strategies on a small sample of WorldCat records. I am using MarcEdit and Excel to analyze and cleanup the data I received from Ed. Since no strategy is foolproof, the process is quite challenging and will become even more demanding when the search is done on a much larger section of WorldCat, but I believe it is doable.
Genre/Form Project volunteers: Melissa Beck, Lia Contursi, Jolande Goldberg, Suzanne Graham, Joni Herbst, Tom Latuszek, Yael Mandelstam, Ellen McGrath, Keiko Okuhara, George Prager, Robert Rendall, Pat Sayre-McCoy, Sallie Smith, Jessie Tam, Christina Tarr, Sally Wambold, Caroline Young.
OTHER NEWS
- The Classification and Subject Cataloging Policy Advisory Working Group Meeting is scheduled for Monday, July 23, 7:00-8:30 in HCC-Room 301.
- Due to employment uncertainties, I will be retiring as chair effective July 1, but fortunately the extremely capable Suzanne Graham has agreed to succeed me as chair.
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2010 - 2011 CLASSIFICATION AND SUBJECT CATALOGING POLICY ADVISORY WORKING GROUP
CATALOGING AND CLASSIFICATION STANDING COMMITTEE
ANNUAL REPORT 2010/2011Cindy May, Chair
Last July, I emailed CSCP members, plus non-members who had attended the CSCP meeting in Denver. In that email, I outlined the projects CSCP planned for the coming year, and asked for responses from those who would like to remain or become members in order to work on a project. My goal was a more active CSCP membership; we gained three new members, and a few resigned due to time constraints or change in job duties.
MEMBER QUESTION FORUM PROJECT (ASK AN EXPERT)
Submitted by Cindy May, Coordinator (clmay@wisc.edu)
This project, originally proposed by George Prager, was to establish a forum where TS-SIS members could submit questions on law classification or subject headings and have them reviewed and answered by CSCP volunteers.
Members of this task group created a submission form, and webmaster Martin Wisneski linked it to the TS-SIS website. The link reads: “Get Your Classification and Subject Heading Questions Answered!” Submitted forms will be automatically emailed to project volunteers, who can then discuss the questions among themselves and provide answers.
Member Question Forum Project volunteers: Jolande Goldberg, Aaron Kuperman, Kathy Lin, Cindy May, Karen Selden.
SACO FUNNEL PROJECT
Submitted by Suzanne Graham, Coordinator (srgraham@uga.edu)
At the end of March, SACO approved our application for a SACO law funnel. The funnel administrators, Suzanne Graham, Kathy Lin, Cindy May and Caroline Young, developed a process for review that includes an open period for comment by all members of the CSCP electronic list. The funnel coordinator, Suzanne Graham, is working with Paul Frank at the Library of Congress to set up training for funnel administrators. Caroline Young revised an existing funnel submission form specifically for the law funnel. The group has a web page that will be posted on the SACO site and also on the TS-SIS site. We hope to have it all live by AALL Annual Meeting.
The law funnel encourages law librarians to continue to develop subject headings and classification numbers for law-related topics. Any law librarian is welcome to submit a proposal by emailing the form to the funnel coordinator. The funnel administrators will make initial assessments and adjustments before posting viable submissions to the CSCP electronic list for wider comment. Vetted proposals will be refined, and the funnel coordinator will submit them to SACO for consideration.
SACO Funnel Project volunteers: Kathy Lin, Cindy May, Caroline Young.
GENRE/FORM PROJECT
Submitted by Yael Mandelstam, Coordinator (ymandelstam@law.fordham.edu)
In November 2010, the Library of Congress announced the incorporation of the law genre/form terms into the Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT). The following January, the AALL Law Genre/Form Implementation Project began. A team of law catalogers joined forces with Ed O’Neill from OCLC to develop strategies for identifying WorldCat records for retrospective application of law genre/form terms. Our first step was to develop criteria for the creation of a subset of law-related WorldCat records and we are currently putting the final touches on those criteria. The AALL team also began working on strategies for specific terms like “Law reviews,” “Restatements of the law,” and “Casebooks,” and will soon start testing these strategies with Ed O’Neill.
Once the terms are added to WorldCat, we hope to get a crosswalk between the OCLC numbers and the relevant terms so we can globally merge these terms into our existing records. We will also publicize our strategies on the TS-SIS website for libraries that prefer to run these strategies locally.
Genre/Form Project volunteers: Melissa Beck, Lia Contursi, Monica Espitia, Jolande Goldberg, Suzanne Graham, Joni Herbst, Alan Keely, Tom Latuszek, Amy Lovell, Yael Mandelstam, Ellen McGrath, Keiko Okuhara, George Prager, Robert Rendall, Pat Sayre-McCoy, Sallie Smith, Jessie Tam, Christina Tarr, Sally Wambold, Marie Whited, Caroline Young.
CLASSIFICATION AND SUBJECT CATALOGING POLICY ADVISORY WORKING GROUP
Chair:
- Cindy May, University of Wisconsin
Members:
- Amalia Contursi, Columbia University
- Pam Deemer, Emory University
- Suzanne Graham, University of Georgia
- Joni Herbst, University of Oregon
- Elizabeth Geesey Holmes, Partridge, Snow & Hahn, Providence, RI
- Aaron Kuperman, Library of Congress
- Tom Latuszek, Florida Coastal School of Law
- Kathy Lin, UC Davis
- Ellen McGrath, SUNY Buffalo
- Robert Rendall, Columbia University
- Pat Sayre McCoy, University of Chicago
- Sallie Smith, University of Pittsburgh
- Sally H. Wambold, University of Richmond
- Caroline Young, Rutgers University
Ex-officio:
- Yael Mandelstam, Fordham University
- George Prager, New York University
- Marie Whited, Law Library of Congress (retired)
- Jolande Goldberg, Library of Congress
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2006 - 2007 CLASSIFICATION AND SUBJECT CATALOGING POLICY ADVISORY WORKING GROUP
CATALOGING AND CLASSIFICATION STANDING COMMITTEE
JULY 16, 2007 REPORTThe Classification and Subject Cataloging Policy (CSCP) Advisory Working Group has experienced some recent personnel changes. Ellen McGrath assumed the role of Chair when Robert Rendall left the Columbia Law Library for the Columbia general library in May. Fortunately Robert is still a member of the group. Elizabeth Holmes stepped down as a member in June when she relocated to Rhode Island. Masako Patrum also stepped down as a member in June when she began to focus on her new position outside of technical services.
Current group members are:
- Denise Glynn
- Tom Latuszek
- Michael Maben
- Brian Provenzale
- Robert Rendall
- Elisheva Schwartz
- Ellen McGrath (Chair)
Ex officio members:
- Jolande Goldberg
- Yael Mandelstam
- Jean Pajerek
- Marie Whited
There were two projects worked on by the CSCP during this past year:
- An update of Bill Benemann’s Genre Terms for Law Materials. This was requested by AALL’s SAC representative, Yael Mandelstam, as a contribution to LC’s project to establish genre terms in LCSH.
- Marie Whited’s proposal to revise the KF1 form table.
The KF1 form table proposal was posted to the TS e-list for public comment and a few comments were received by the June 1, 2007 deadline. A compilation of those comments, along with the discussion of the CSCP members was then posted on the TS website and announced on the TS e-list. This was done to allow Cataloging & Classification Committee members to prepare in advance for a brief discussion and vote on the KF1 form table proposal at the Committee meeting in New Orleans.
Work on the genre terms list is still underway. More will be announced about this soon.
For further information, please refer to the CSCP Working Group website.
Submitted by:
Ellen McGrath
Chair, TS CSCP Working Group