Program Proposals for Summit 2010

To all TS-SIS Members:
For those who attended the AALL Annual Meeting in Washington, DC - welcome back! And for those who were not able to attend, you missed some wonderful educational programs... but we're already hard at work putting together more educational programs and learning opportunities for AALL's 2010 conference in Denver.

If you plan to submit a 2010 program proposal, the TS-SIS Education Committee would like to help give your program the best chance of being approved. Please consult the instructions found at http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/annualmeeting/2009/#programideas.

Then "Share" your program proposal with me at Carol_Nicholson@unc.edu on behalf of the TS-SIS Education Committee by Monday, August 10th.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Carol Nicholson, Chair

AALL TS-SIS Education Committee

Vendor neutral e-monograph record guide

In anticipation of an implementation date of August 1, 2009, the Provider-Neutral E-Monograph MARC Record Guide has been posted to the BIBCO Web site: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/bibco/PN-Guide.pdf. Thanks to Provider Neutral Task Force members Becky Culbertson, Yael Mandelstam, and George Prager for preparing the guide. The document contains background information, a metadata application profile (MAP), and examples to guide BIBCO and other catalogers in creating provider neutral e-monograph records.

There is a link to the Provider-Neutral E-Monograph MARC Record Guide on the BIBCO Web site, listed under the BIBCO Participants Manual http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/bibco/bibco.html

The Provider Neutral E-Monograph Task Group Final Report revised July 30,
2009 is available
from: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/bibco/PN-Final-Report.pdf. Task group members are working on an update of the PCC MARC Record Guide for Monograph Aggregator Vendors to incorporate provider neutral practices and expect to make the revised version available in the next month or so.

Also in anticipation of an August 1, 2009 implementation date, CONSER standard record guidelines
(CSR) (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/conserdoc.pdf) have been revised to incorporate PCC practices for online series qualifiers (for background please see: http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/Online-Series.pdf).

LCRI 25.5B has been revised to support the CONSER practice of not requiring a uniform title for an online monographic series solely to differentiate online from other physical mediums. This revision is included in the Cataloger's Desktop 2009 Issue 3 released today.

Thanks to Judy Kuhagen of the Library of Congress Policy and Standards Division for working on LCRI revisions and for reviewing the provider neutral record documentation.

Sincerely,
Les Hawkins
CONSER Coordinator
Library of Congress

OCLC Update available online

The OCLC Update presented at the AALL conference in Washington on July 26 is now available on the OCLC web site at http://www.oclc.org/us/en/news/events/presentations/default.htm.

Glenn E. Patton

Director, WorldCat Quality Management

OCLC

6565 Kilgour Place

Dublin OH 43017-3395

Phone: +1.800.828.5878, ext. 6371 or +1.614.764.6371

Fax: +1.614.718.7187

Email: pattong@oclc.org

Photos from TS/OBS/RIPS/CS-SIS Joint Reception

Photos from the 2009 Alphabet Soup Reception held at the Renaissance Hotel. Thanks again to Innovative Interfaces for their sponsorship again this year.

Law Library of Congress Tour

I was one of the 18-20 fortunate members to take the Law Library of Congress tour on Monday morning. I missed several valuable sessions being held at the same time, but decided it was a great opportunity. It turned out to be one of the highlights of the conference.

We left the conference center on the Metro about 8:30am in order to begin our 9:00am tour of the Law Library located in the Madison Building on schedule. This was a good introduction to the Metro rush hour traffic. We started our tour with an overview of the services provided by both the Congressional Research Service (CRS) and the Law Library of Congress itself.

• CRS provides research services by librarians and attorneys for members of congress on requested issues
• The Law Library provides Guide to Law Online (GLIN), Thomas, Directorate of Legal Research (primarily international), Ask a Librarian (online), to name only a few of their services

I was struck by the enthusiasm of the librarians we met, and came away with the feeling that this would be a great place to work.

Mark Strattner, Chief of the Collections Services Division, provided a tour of the Law Library. He is both enthusiastic and has a great sense of humor. We had a brief tour of the closed stacks and a small number of the 2.65 million volumes. His stories of cataloging backlog and limited resources made our problems pale by comparison.

As a bonus, Mark offered us a tour of the Jefferson Building. In addition to the Great Hall and a peek at the beautiful reading room, we saw the Jefferson Collection and the private Senate and House rooms. Thanks to Mark and all the library staff who made these tour possible.

Petition for free access to PACER

Hello folks,

Below is an email explaining how you can sign the PACER petition that was mentioned in Sunday’s keynote address at AALL.

Thanks,

Chris

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Chris Long

Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis

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Hey Everyone,

Erika Wayne has asked that we post the message below to our lists. It provides a like to where people can sign the petition asking the government to make PACER access free to depository libraries. Free PACER access is one of the issues being addressed by the AALL Government Relations Office, and this petition was touched on by the AALL Annual Meeting keynote speaker Jonathan Zittrain.

If anyone would like to see (and sign) the PACER petition that Jonathan Zittrain talked about in his keynote address, it is here:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/improve-pacer

And, if you can, please share this petition with your colleagues, faculty, students and alumni.

Let us make Jonathan Zittrain proud and get a *lot* more signatures!

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thanks and take care,

Erika

Training at LC

The Cataloger's Desktop and ClassWeb training sessions held at the Library of Congress on Wednesday were wonderful and well worth staying on for. Thanks to OBS for sponsoring them and especially to Karen Selden for her always impressive organizational skills in pulling it off smoothly.

On the content side, thank you to Bruce Johnson and Patricia Hayward for presenting and to Aaron Kuperman and Paul Weiss for their valuable assistance.

Unfortunately I could not stay for the Library of Congress tour in the afternoon.