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Automated Bibliographic Control Committee Minutes
January 10, 2004

Present: Inna Gudanets (Stanford), Diana Brooking (Washington), Mischa Buczkowski (Oregon), Jackie Byrd (Indiana), David Chroust (Texas A & M), Steve Corrsin (Wayne State), Beth Feinberg (UCLA), Jared Ingersoll (Columbia), Soobum Kim (Stanford), Tim Larson (Indiana), Sandra Levy (Chicago), Tatiana Lorkovic (Yale), Miranda Remnek (Illinois), Terri Miller (Michigan State), Dan Pennell (Pittsburgh), Janice Pilch (Illinois), Adam Siegel (San Jose State), Andy Spencer (Wisconsin), Marek Sroka (Illinois), Keith Westover (BYU), Cathy Zeljak (George Washington)

Status of Request to LC's CPSO for Clarification on Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian Languages for Cataloging: Chairperson Inna Gudanets distributed copies of the last letter to go from ABC to the Library of Congress, sent May 1, 2003, regarding the use of the Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian languages for cataloging purposes. She also distributed the reply, dated Sept. 8, 2003, from Milicent Wewerka, Library of Congress Senior Cataloging Policy Specialist. Inna asked the committee and others in attendance for input into what ABC should do now. The comments included:

• Maybe ABC would have better luck if it worked via its PCC catalogers, rather than through CPSO
• There are a lot of incorrectly coded records input into RLIN and OCLC after the changes were made in the language codes
• It would have been better if new language codes were used, rather than using the old scc and scr codes and assigning different meanings to them
• It may be too late to have input into this decision, but it would be good if our input had an effect in future changes
• The languages are assigned by political division, determined by the place of publication
• Older books have Croatian literature published in Cyrillic. Are these considered translations now?
• Will Montenegrin be a new language soon?

ABC's Home Page: Inna announced that Soobum Kim will be taking over the ABC website (http://www.stanford.edu/~soobum/ABC ), and it will be hosted on a Stanford server. Copies of the current website were distributed for comments. Comments included:

• The website will be linked on the SEES site
• Should we add the charge?
• Who should serve as contacts for cataloging questions? The committee roster?
• Should language expertise be noted for committee members?
• Should there only be one contact who would route questions?

Slavic Cataloging Manual: Jackie Byrd distributed printouts of changes made to pages of the Slavic Cataloging Manual.

• The changes to the page for "Geographic Subjects: Yugoslavia and the former Yugoslav Republics" were approved, and Jackie was given the OK to post the revisions. [Update: This has been done.]
• The changes to the page for "Biography Subject Headings: Former Yugoslavia" were not seen as desirable, since the use of subjects in this area are still somewhat in flux.
• Changes were suggested for the page for the "Russian Dash". Jackie will revise the page and request input from ABC.
• Future changes to the website will be made public when approval comes from the ABC chair.

• The committee will continue its work on the Slavic Cataloging Manual
• Soobum gave some input for Joanna Dyla who wanted a discussion about Slavic Cyrillic vernacular cataloging. The Queens Borough Public Library has started doing this. Is anyone else? This led to a discussion of the upcoming SEES program in Orlando in June, which is on this very topic.

  Submitted by Jackie Byrd

  Last updated 5/17/04