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Automated Bibliographic Control Committee Minutes
June 27, 2004

Present: Inna Gudanets (Stanford), Jackie Byrd (Indiana), Brenda Carter (Pittsburgh), Joanna Dyla (Stanford), Joanna Epstein (Harvard), Beth Feinberg (UCLA), Soobum Kim (Stanford), Terri Miller (Michigan State), Mary Jane Petrowski (ACRL), Janice Pilch (Illinois), Marek Sroka (Illinois)

Minutes: The minutes of the January, 2004 committee meeting in San Diego were approved as submitted.

ABC Home Page: Soobum Kim reported on the work he has done on the ABC Home Page, including:

  • Adding the letters to and from the LC regarding the use of the Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian languages in cataloging
  • A listing of ABC members
  • A link to Soobum's email for questions
  • Useful links
  • SEES Home Page
  • Slavic Cataloging Manual
Some suggestions for other additions were made, including:
  • A link to the ABC charge on the SEES Home Page
  • A photo of the ABC
New Project: Inna proposed that ABC begins a new project, "What is happening in the world of foreign and vendor records?". The project would involve finding out:
  • What vendors of Slavic/East European materials supply bibliographic records
  • Which libraries are using these records
  • How the libraries would evaluate the records
It was decided that the project could be broken down into a few manageable tasks, each taken on by 1-2 ABC member(s):
  • Draft a survey of standardized questions to appear on a Web-form and an email that will direct recipients to the form (Marek Sroka & Brenda Carter).
  • Create a draft list of recipients for the email (in addition to posting it on slavlibs). Mary Jane Petrowski offered to provide a list of SEES members who listed acquisitions responsibilities as part of their job, and Beth Feinberg offered to provide a list of contacts for U.S. and Canadian Slavic collections (Tim Larson)
  • Create web-form (Either ACRL or Jackie Byrd--to be decided
  • Send the email out (ACRL can send a "blast" email out, if we supply the email addresses)
  • Evaluate results (Inna will seek volunteers via email)
It was decided that the survey was to be made available to recipients throughout October, so the deadlines of the preliminary work (drafting the survey and email, determining the recipients) will need to be done in time to accommodate that deadline. The entire project is scheduled to be completed and a final report given at the Mid-Winter meeting in Boston.

Slavic Cataloging Manual: Soobum Kim reported that, while at the LC booth at the exhibits, he noticed that the Catalogers' Desktop WWW Version had "(Princeton)" after the link to the Slavic Cataloging Manual. He informed LC that this is now being maintained by SEES on a server at Indiana and will send LC the new URL. Terri Miller reported that Stephanie Orphan of ACRL wants to be informed of "gems" of ACRL sections, and she will send Stephanie the URL for the cataloging manual.

Submitted by Jackie Byrd

Last updated 9/26/04