ALCTS Network News v6n01 (July 20, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/ann/ann-v6n01 ISSN: 1056-6694 ALCTS NETWORK NEWS An electronic publication of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Volume 6, Number 1 July 20, 1993 In this issue COMMENTS ON A PRESCRIBED ORDER OF SUBJECT SUBDIVISIONS IN LSCH ARE SOLICITED CONSER CATALOGING MANUAL AVAILABLE BAILEY RECEIVES LITA/LIBRARY HI TECH AWARD ************************************************************************** [Editor's note: Reports on the Annual Conference in New Orleans, including a summary of actions of the ALCTS Board of Directors, will be appearing in forthcoming issues of AN2, under the new editorship of Karen Whittlesey, ALCTS Deputy Executive Director. Please send reports of committee or discussion group activities to AN2 at u34261@uicvm. We will publish only those reports received electronically and reserve the right to publish a summary, with the full report added to the ALCTS Filelist. Your report will be published more quickly if its format conforms closely to AN2 style (paragraphs indented 5 spaces, no blank lines between paragraphs, and a one line title).] ************************************************************************* COMMENTS ON A PRESCRIBED ORDER OF SUBJECT SUBDIVISIONS IN LSCH ARE SOLICITED In May, 1991, the Library of Congress hosted an invitational conference, held at Airlie House in Virginia, on the future of subdivisions in the Library of Congress subject headings system. The purpose of the conference, as stated in the report issued on the conference (The Future of Subdivisions in the Library of Congress Subject Headings System. Edited by Martha O'Hara Conway. Washington: Library of Congress Distribution Service, 1992) was: - To make the assignment of subject headings more efficient; - To enhance and encourage cooperative cataloging efforts; and - To improve subject access for online public access catalog (OPAC) users. In addition, several working assumptions governed the conference deliberations: - Libraries are functioning in an automated, online environment. - The current generation of OPACs accommodates and supports keyword searching, Boolean operations, alphabetical browsing, and a viable system of cross-references. - The national libraries are committed to cooperative cataloging. - The recommended technique must support machine validation of assigned subject headings. - The conference will make recommendations for the future and not be unduly constrained by current implementations and systems. - Issues such as the form and language of LCSH, the implications for multiple thesauri, and the need for a subject cataloging code are out of the scope of this conference. Four days of debate and discussion among the forty-two participants coalesced in the formulation of six recommendations to LC concerning future subdivision practice. Recommendation 1 was: Under topical headings (as opposed to name or place headings), place, chronological, and form subdivisions shall be applied as needed and on an individual basis, based upon the judgment of the cataloger as to their appropriateness to the item being cataloged. IF THE CATALOGER CHOOSES TO APPLY SUBDIVISIONS, THE SUBDIVISIONS SHOULD ALWAYS APPEAR IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER: TOPICAL, GEOGRAPHIC, CHRONOLOGICAL, FORM. This is not to suggest that each type of subdivision shall always be present under each heading; it is simply to SPECIFY A STANDARD ORDER FOR THEM WHEN THEY ARE ASSIGNED... . (Emphasis added) At its meetings during the American Library Association's 1992 Annual Conference in San Francisco, the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Subject Analysis Committee (SAC) was asked to reconsider its initial endorsement of this recommendation to implement a standard order of subdivisions. It was specifically asked: - To consider the implications of its application in the areas of art, music, and literature; - To consider the place of the subdivision --History in the prescribed order of subdivisions; and - To investigate other potentially problematic areas. SAC's response, during its 1993 ALA Midwinter meetings in Denver, was to appoint a Subcommittee on the Order of Subdivisions in Library of Congress Subject Strings to consider these problems more systematically. During the 1993 ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans, this Subcommittee met and began grappling with its charge. It was decided to produce Discussion Papers in each of the areas where potential problems were already noted (art, music, literature and the place of the subdivision --History) and to distribute them to Subcommittee members before the January Midwinter meetings in Los Angeles. This announcement is to elicit input on this issue from the library community at large while these Discussion Papers are being written. Your thoughts, concerns, and examples of problems you can identify should be directed to the following people: Subdivision --History Peter Lisbon Widener Library Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Internet: LP99@HARVARDA.HARVARD.EDU Bitnet : LP99@HARVARDA Art Bethany Mendenhall Getty Center Resource Collections 401 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 400 Santa Monica, CA 90401-1455 Internet: EGETBRM@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU Suzanne Lorimer Yale University Library P.O. Box 1603A Yale Station New Haven, CT 06520 Internet: LORIMER@YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU Bitnet : LORIMER@YALEVM Music Arlene Taylor University of Pittsburgh School of Library and Information Science 135 North Bellefield Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Internet: TAYLOR@LIS.PITT.EDU (after July 12) Sherry Vellucci St. John's University Division of Library & Information Science Grand Central and Utopia Parkways Jamaica, NY 11439 Internet: 0004652928@MCIMAIL.COM Literature Lynn El-Hoshy Cataloging Policy and Support Office Library of Congress Independence Avenue at First St., SE Washington, DC 20540 Internet: ELHOSHY@MAIL.LOC.GOV Dorothy McGarry University of California at Los Angeles Physical Sciences/Technology Libs. 8251 Boelter Hall 405 Hilgard Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90024-1598 Internet: ECZ5CTT@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU Bitnet : ECZ5CTT@UCLAMVS General concerns, as well as the identification of other problematic areas, should be directed to the Subcommittee Chair, Suzanne Lorimer (addresses under Art, above). -- Suzanne Lorimer ************************************************************************* CONSER CATALOGING MANUAL AVAILABLE _CONSER Cataloging Manual_ is now available from the Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service. Prepared under the direction of the LC Serial Record Division, this manual brings together relevant citations from AACR2, Library of Congress Rule Interpretations, and LC cataloging practice. Used with CONSER Editing Guide, CONSER Cataloging Manual provides the complete picture for cataloging serial publications. CONSER Cataloging Manual is an ongoing effort consisting of three parts: 1. Original cataloging; 2. Adapting records for online cataloging; and 3. Special types of serials and special problems. Part 1 is available for $60 in North America ($65 outside North America). It contains 18 modules and includes more than 100 illustrations using actual serial publications. Update 1, available in the Fall, includes "Understanding and Interpreting Pre-AACR2 Serial Records" and a module covering the cataloging of CD-ROM and floppy disc serial publications. For more information contact: Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service, Customer Services Section Dept. CF, Washington, D.C. 20541. Toll-free telephone in U.S.: 1-800-255-3666 or call (202) 707-6100; fax (202) 707-1334. -- Cheryl C. Cook, Senior Library Services Analyst, Library of Congress. ************************************************************************* BAILEY RECEIVES LITA/LIBRARY HI TECH AWARD At the 1993 ALA Annual meeting, Charles W. Bailey, Jr. received the first LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for his electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. In 1992, he received a Network Citizen Award from the Apple Library of Apple Computer, Inc. for these activities. Bailey is the Assistant Director for Systems at the University of Houston Libraries. He is the founder and former moderator of PACS-L, a large discussion list on BITNET, Internet, and other networks. Bailey is the Editor-in-Chief of The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, a refereed electronic journal, and the former co-editor of Public-Access Computer Systems News, an electronic newsletter. He was the Project Manager for the Intelligent Reference Information System (IRIS) Project, which was named as one of the Joe Wyatt Challenge Success Stories by EDUCOM. Prior to his current position, Bailey was the Head of Systems and Research Services at the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Systems Librarian at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of the Johns Hopkins University, User Documentation Specialist at OCLC, and Media Library Manager at the Learning Resources Center of SUNY College at Oswego. Bailey has published papers dealing with artificial intelligence, CD-ROM networking, electronic publishing, multimedia computing, and public-access computer systems that have appeared in Advances in Library Automation and Networking, Information Technology and Libraries, Library Hi Tech, ONLINE, Reference Services Review, Serials Review, and other publications. He serves on the editorial boards of Library Software Review and Reference Services Review. Bailey holds an M.L.S. from Syracuse University as well as a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Connecticut. ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ALCTS NETWORK NEWS (ISSN 1056-6694) is published irregularly by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, a division of the American Library Association. Editorial offices: ALCTS, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; Jennifer Younger, President; Karen Muller, Executive Director. Editor: Karen Whittlesey (u34261@uicvm); Editorial Advisory Board: Liz Bishoff, Jennifer Younger, Robert P. Holley; Editorial Assistance: Karen Muller. ALCTS NETWORK NEWS is available free of charge and is available only in electronic form. Opinions expressed in the articles are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the division. 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