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.

Some AALL2009 programs available free on web

The Capital Crier reports that free video recordings will be available for seven of the sessions from the 2009 annual conference. I was not able to access the seven at the link given in the Capital Crier, but did find everything for sale at AALL2go. Which I suppose is also helpful.

Opening session

Here's a link to a discussion of the opening session, including a link to the slideshow at the beginning, and also the parts of Zittrain's speech that were expressly about libraries.

I'd forgotten the whole library as noun, verb and adjective thing --

Classification and Subject Cataloging Policy Advisory Working Group

The CSCPAWG met at 7:30 this morning. Thanks to the Serials Committee for sharing their coffee! We opened with a discussion of the Genre/Form Editorial Group's recent trip to meet with the PSD of LC's ABA (formerly known as CPSO)to discussion the Editorial Group's draft of the Legal Genre/Form terms. Issues resolved at the meeting include:

• Editorial Group will submit proposals to remove form terms from LCSH, essentially by changing scope notes.
  
• Since 185s ($v's) wil be around for the forseeable future, the EG will submit proposals to harmonize 185 terms with the proposed 155 (G/F) terms. (It was interesting that LC said that the trend is to make 185s as generic as possible - i.e. maps, not maps, topographic.)
• EG will submit proposals to change inverted 150 headings to direct order for terms in which the direct order term matches an inverted order 150 --i.e. there is a G/F term Legislative bills. EG will submit a proposal to change the 150 Bills, legislative to Legislative bills.
• EG should make no attempt to cross reference the G/F terms to Subject Headings -- the two thesauri are seen as different species which should not interact.
• It's okay to add terms which for us will only be archival -- i.e. Wills, Contracts -- but we should consult with the rare book people in doing so.
• We are allowed to include some non-legal terms (i.e. Periodicals) as they are needed for our reference structures. It was recognized that it was not realistic that we have a thesaurus without including some general terms.
• PSD approved of the EG's balance of common/civil law and terms as used by various groups -- catalogers, reference librarians, practitioners, students, lay people.
• There was some discussion of specific terms which resulted in some terms being bumped up to the general list, one dropped (Fiction (Law)), new references added.
• It was a very positive and helpful discussion, and left the Editorial Group with a clear picture of what to do to complete their work on the list.

Additional discussion at the CSCPAWG meeting included

• Gabe Horchler at LC Law Library Cataloging is very focussed on getting materials out (40,000 title last year). They don't want to jeopardize that progress. They are worried that applying the terms may slow then down.
• We should attempt to contact catalogers at IFLA and see what they think of the list. John Hostage and George Praeger are both going to IFLA and can take it with them.
• Implementation should be by machine as much as possible. Yael Mandelstam intends to start figuring out ways to add them to her catalog and is willing to share ways that work. We agree that they will be of little use unless applied retroactively to the whole collection.
• A cooperative project -- Perhaps AALL libraries could add them through some kind of cooperative effort on OCLC?
• Formats (i.e. electronic resources) are NOT included in new list -- that will be handled through RDA.

The second topic of discussion was what to do with the International Criminal Court, and with the developing concept of international crimes -- including, so far, genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and aggression, and possibly expanding to include crimes against social and cultural interests. Currently the ICC is in KZ, the crimes are scattered throughout K and also the individual jurisdictions. Jolande and Marie proposed developing an international crimes section at the end of KZ which would include both the ICC and theoretical discussion of various international crimes. Jolande will prepare a mockup of what the schedule might look like. We will look at our collections and see what we think about this in the contexts of our own libraries.

Descriptive Cataloging Policy Advisory Working Group

The Descriptive Cataloging Policy Advisory Group met on Monday. With the retirement of Ann Sitkin the group lacks a head, and in this interim period before LC and other libraries (including 5 law libraries -- Chicago, Columbia, Emory, Northeastern and Stanford) begin testing RDA, we're in a bit of a lull.

A few things we could start to think about, in a desultory sort of way, are the treatment of court reports, and the designation of official court reports, in AACR2 and RDA. We should start to think about the new legal rules under RDA, which are apparently not so different from AACR2 and in some respects go back to AACR. We should look at the treatment of treaties, which is said to be unsatisfactory. We should get ready to think about RDA, because it's coming.

TS-SIS Serials Committee Meeting

The TS-SIS Serials Committee Meeting was held this morning at 7:30 a.m. in the Convention Center. Under Old Business a report on the Exchange of Duplicates Program was given. There were 36 libraries in the program this year. There was also a report on the work of the Project COUNTER group. They noted that Hein has contact them about becoming COUNTER compliant. We need to speak to our reps at companies, such as CCH and BNA, about providing COUNTER compliant statistics to libraries. Under New Business ideas were discussed for possible program proposals. For TS-SIS sponsorship proposals need to be turned in to the Education Committee by Aug 10. There were ideas about the development of a library of last resort program in coordination with LIPA, what to cut when there is nothing left to cut, and looking at pricing models for electronic resources.

Monday Quote of the Day

"Everyone benefits from better data."

This is my nomination for quote of the day as stated by Kara Killough (Serials Solutions) in her presentation during the program on aggregator/provider-neutral records. It was a well-attended and timely program, given that the implementation of provider-neutral records for e-monographs is scheduled for August 1st. Congratulations to Karen Selden, coordinator, and to Gene Dickerson, who also spoke. Let's all make a point to extend a special welcome to Gene on his first AALL conference!

Just another thought: Why isn't anyone applying for the OBS/TS Joint Research Grant? Maybe you should apply!

Jolande's power point on linking from class schedules

As discussed today in the Cat and Class business meeting

The Library of Congress is investigating using the inherent access and linking functionality of the Library of Congress online classification system as a finding tool for web resources, taking the KIA, the new Law Classification for Indigenous Peoples in the Americas as an example. KIA works particularly well for this, since it is jurisdictionally based (allowing searching from an online maps -- very cool), and since many of the resources organized in the schedule are not published in traditional formats but rather available only through websites.

View Dr. Jolande Goldberg's poster on the new possibilities for classification schedules as reference tools here, in PDF. She will present it at the 2009 National Conference of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums to be held this October in Portland, Oregon.

Genre/Form Editorial Group meets with the Policy Standards Division

The Law Genre/Form Editorial Group, chaired by Yael Mandelstam, met with the LC Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate Policy and Standards Division today to talk about the recently completed draft of the Genre/Form Terms for Law Materials list. It was a very productive meeting. PSD liked the list. We were able to jump into a discussion of unresolved policy issues, which were quickly resolved, and then into a discussion of some individual terms. The Group left with a clear idea of how to tie up the remaining loose ends, after which the list will be handed over and the Group's work will be done.




While we were there, we got a tour of Marie Whited's office. (George Praeger had to leave before the tour.)



And a (blurry) picture of Marie.

Acqusitions Committee Meeting and Roundtable

The TS-SIS Acquisitions Committee Meeting and Roundtable was held this morning at 7am in the Convention Center - much coffee was consumed and bagels eaten. Heard reports on Old Business concerning ACQWEB and the Collection Development Policies webpage. Talked about possible proposals for AALL 2010. Discussed during roundtable issues of concern about control we have over ILS selection, vendor customer service issues, and pricing negotiations. It was noted that sometime we have to tell sales reps, "We're just not that into you."

Random Thoughts from Sunday

• Attendance at this conference was announced as 2,179. Is that on track with recent years? I know I miss seeing a number of my colleagues who are at home due to budget problems.
• Keynote: Libraries tend to let the perfect become the enemy of the good. The social, F2F aspect of libraries is our best quality. There is a huge untapped desire to be part of something.
• RDA: How much more will the timeline slip? How/when will we all be trained? How will the relationship with FRBR "manifest" itself? And what if the testing results in a decision NOT to implement?
• Library Automation: How painful will the transition from OPACs ("a dying breed") be? The good news is we are seeing innovation in the library automation industry. The bad news is, innovative change is often a challenge to weather.
• Food: Why are all the plates in this town square?

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Trapeze School

This is what's going on outside my window. In the huge vacant lot where the Convention Center used to be.

Keynote speech

Here's a link to a review of (pretty much) the keynote address. It was an interesting speech.

Link via @zittrain via @robtruman.

And here's an article (and more pictures!) of the Opening Reception last night.

A-6 Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?

Future of print periodicals session Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? (A-6) covered examples of libraries that are using online access to journal literature through HeinOnline primarily and no longer receiving or retaining print versions of these journals. "Just in Time" service seems well-excepted by patrons generally. Financial pressures and space pressures pushing libraries in this direction. Good points about LONG-Term access needs during questions, which were not really covered during the session. Also a desire for best practices from maybe AALL during questions. Should we be concerned about driving law reviews out of business? (Plug for TS-SIS Serials Committee meeting!)

Opening reception

NISO Training

Saturday afternoon I attended the NISO Training session arranged by Mary Alice Baish and sponsored by the OBS, TS, and CS SISs. NISO standards can be offputting because they are often complex and seem almost to be written in another language at times :-) But Karen Wetzel helped us see that the effort is worthwhile because in the long run standards are there to make our work easier and more efficient. Karen is determined to do whatever she can to help AALL participate more in the NISO standards process.

Stay tuned, you'll be hearing more about NISO. Thank you Karen and Mary Alice!

Pictures from Alphabet Soup (more to come)

Nice ribbons!

CONELL Marketplace

TS-SIS and OBS-SIS had tables this morning at CONELL Marketplace to introduce our sections to new law librarians. It was great to meet so many people interested in our SISs - including our CONELL Registration Award Recipients! For more information about TS-SIS and OBS-SIS stop by our tables in the Exhibit Hall - there might even be some Skittles left to track with the Skittles Tracker (come by the table to see!)

Another amazing twitter link

Mark Strattner is the 1o millionth Nationals fan.

In Appreciation of Catalogers and Cataloging Standards

Dear Colleagues,

Since I will be unable to attend the AALL Annual Meeting and participate in the TS-SIS programs in Washington, D.C., I have decided to do what is hopefully the next best thing, write an article/posting emphasizing the positive aspects and continuing relevance of cataloging and cataloging to a more general audience incluing some decision makers. I have therefore prepared a posting "In Appreciation of Cataloging and Catalog Standards," and have published it today on the Criminal Law Library Blog which reaches a broad audience of both librarians and others. It is a generalized posting which emphasizes my appreciation for, catalogers and cataloging standards rather than going into details at any depth. Joni Cassidy has agreed write a subsequent article which will cover some of the material I did not include. To see my posting go to:

http://www.criminallawlibraryblog.com/2009/07/in_appreciation_of_library_cat.html

As a member of TS-SIS I really appreciate the many e-mails and other documentation that is distributed to the membership on a regular basis. It is very informative. For example I could not have completed this posting without some of thie information provided by TS-SIS and many of its members separately.

Here's wishing all a wonderful time in Washington, D.C. and great TS-SIS meetings.

Best regards,

David

David G. Badertscher
Principal Law Librarian
New York Supreme Court
Criminal Term

MARBI 2008-2009 Report available

Esteemed colleagues,
 The 2008-2009 AALL MARBI Representative Report is now available on the TS website.  The direct URL is:
http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/representatives/2009/marbi2009.htm

(There are also links on the TS homepage and the TS 2009 Annual
Meeting pages.)

I will also be giving a short (I hear sighs of relief) report at the TS-SIS C & C Standing Committee Meeting on Monday, July 27 (9-10:30 AM; Renaissance-Room 13).

George

George Praeger, AALL rep to MARBI

TS/OBS/RIPS/CS-SIS Joint Reception

Hi All,

If you’ll be in D.C. on Saturday evening, please plan to stop by the “Alphabet Soup” Reception, sponsored once again by a generous donation from Innovative Interfaces. It’ll be held in the Renaissance Hotel, Ballroom West AB from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. I know the Reception Committee worked very hard to create a tempting menu. Please come mingle with all of your SIS colleagues.

See you soon!

Linda

Linda Tesar

TS-SIS Chair, 2008/2009

TSSIS Serials Standing Committee

TS-SIS Serials Standing Committee
AALL Annual Meeting Agenda

Washington Convention Center, Room 143-C
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
7:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.

I. Introductions (New Chair & Recorder)

II. Announcements

a. Serials Committee program sponsored by TS-SIS:

i. Sunday, 1:30-2:45 p.m. — Program A-6: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? The Future of Print Periodicals in Law Libraries — WCC, Room 146 C

b. Tuesday programs sponsored by TS-SIS:

i. 9:00-10:30 a.m. — TS-SIS Program H-3: Here's to Your (Digital Archive's) Good Health! Auditing and Evaluating Digital Preservation Projects — WCC, Room 147 AB

ii. 10:45-11:45 a.m. — TS-SIS Program I-3: Next-Gen Integrated Library System Features Relevant to the Private Law Firm Library — WCC, Room 147 AB

iii. 2:30-3:15 p.m. — TS-SIS Program: Redefining Work Roles in Response to Changing Collection Environments — WCC, Room 156

c. Full list of TS-SIS programs:

i. http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/annualmeeting/2009

III. Old business

a. Exchange of Duplicates Program

b. Project Counter Subcommittee

IV. New Business

a. 2010 Annual Meeting Program Proposals

b. Project Ideas for 2009/10

V. Open

Carol Avery Nicholson, Chair

Useful links

Strangely, I keep finding useful links via twitter -- the feed is right there on the right. I'm going to list them all here just in case anyone else finds them useful.

Here is a roundup of advice and tips on attending the conference from the Law Librarian Blog.

Here is a link to the weather in DC.

Here is a printable schedule for the conference, updated with room assignments, from Tom Boone.

And here, also from Tom Boone, is the final program.

Huh.

TS-SIS Hot topic discussion "Working With OCLC's Record Transfer Policy"

DON'T MISS the TS-SIS Hot topic discussion "Working
With OCLC's Record Transfer Policy" this coming
Monday, July 27, from 12:15-1:15 PM, in Rm. 156 of the
WCC.

As you are aware, the new OCLC policy on Record transfer
will not be implemented. The panelists on this program will bring
you up to date on the latest developments and impact on
your library's management and technical services issues. We will
have the chance to present concerns about any new policies, and
make suggestions about a future one.

The panelists are:

Michael Maben, Moderator, Chair of the OBS-SIS

Roberta Shaffer, Member of the OCLC Review Board of Shared
Data Creation and Stewardship

Pat Callahan, Chair of the OBS-SIS Special Committee
on Record Sharing

Glenn Patton, OCLC Representative, Director, WorldCat Quality Management

Keiko Okuhara and Phoebe Ruiz-Valera, Co-Coordinators

Please come, listen, speak up, and make a difference!

AALL Program - Peer Collaboration

Peer Collaboration - TS-SIS Program - AALL Annual Meeting

Monday July 27, 4:00-5:15 pm

WCC-Room 156

How many people think team management is a crazy idea? Why do you think it is crazy?

Who shudders to think about their work being dependent on others?

Who has attended meetings that were dominated by one person while others were mainly silent?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, consider attending our Peer Collaboration presentation (and bring a colleague!). We hope to address your concerns and make a believer out of you. If you'd like to provide any comments or feedback on this topic, feel free to add them below. We promise to discuss them in our session.

Now here's the official description of our presentation...

Colleagues, often from different departments, must frequently work together to achieve library goals. This can be difficult to manage as neither has supervisory responsibility for the other, and therefore, cannot set deadlines or duties for the other. Tensions can occur if they don’t understand each other’s goals and deadlines. Ideally, two colleagues can share the joys and pains of working together either as part of daily work or together on special projects. Issues to be addressed include how labor is divided, issues of joint supervision of staff, or equitable split of credit.

Wendy Moore and Carol Watson will describe the team management structure that has been successfully implemented at the University of Georgia Law Library for close to ten years now. Topics to be discussed include: a description of the UGA Law Library team management system, major concepts of team management, pluses and minuses, a pecha kucha view of real life scenarios in the UGA library, as well as tips for implementing the team structure in your library.

Wendy E. Moore, Acquisitions Librarian, University of Georgia Law Library

Carol A. Watson, Associate Director for Information Technology, University of Georgia Law Library

OBS in Washington, DC

Dear OBS Colleagues:

I hope to see many of you at the AALL annual meeting in Washington DC starting this Saturday. OBS has a number of events scheduled—this list is available on our website at http://www.aallnet.org/sis/obssis/meetings/2009/OBSMeetings.html. The OBS Business Meeting is on Monday, July 27^th from 5:30pm to 6:30pm in the Renaissance Room 3. The agenda for the business meeting is in the attached file.

Also, I am pleased that our VIP for this meeting is Mr. Bruce Johnson. Mr. Johnson is with the Library of Congress Cataloging Distribution Service, and he presented the program on Cataloger’s Desktop last year in Portland. This year he will be teaching the advanced course in Cataloger’s Desktop at the OBS-sponsored program on Wednesday at LC. We are very fortunate to have Bruce Johnson as our guest this year.

Finally, the Softlink local systems roundtable on Tuesday, July 28^th has been canceled.

For those of you who will not be in Washington, we will miss you. For those of you coming, have a safe trip.

--Michael Maben
OBS Chair

AALL Program: Redesigning Work Roles in Response to Changing Collection Environments

Hello TS-SISers,

For those of you who will still be around AALL on Tuesday afternoon, I would like to invite you to the TS-SIS sponsored program, "Redefining Work Roles in Response to Changing Collection Environments" on Tuesday, July 28 from 2:30-3:15, in WCC-156.

As libraries have adjusted to their changing collection environments by taking on new roles within their institutions, by purchasing fewer resources or changing formats of resources purchased, managers have seen an increased need to reallocate some staff from tasks that are less in demand to others now in greater demand.  Ajaye Bloomstone and I will be talking about our respective experiences in the past year at Louisiana State and Northwestern, respectively.  However, we also plan to leave ample time for discussion, and encourage you to come and share your ideas and experiences from your own institutions.

Thank you, and hope to see you there.

Eric Parker
Acquisitions Librarian
Pritzker Legal Research Center
Northwestern University School of Law

Task Group on Vendor-Supplied Bibliographic Records

The Task Group on Vendor-Supplied Bibliographic Records will be meeting at AALL on Tuesday, July 28, from 12:00 to 1:15. Our meeting room is WCC room 158B. The meeting is open to any interested party, so please join us!

Our agenda for the meeting is:

n Update on VBR wiki

n Update on provider-neutral e-monograph records

n Report on conference call with Serials Solutions

n Planning for the coming year (i.e., where do we go from here?)

Hope to see you there!

Angela Jones

2008/2009 chair, Task Group on Vendor-Supplied Bibliographic Records

TS-SIS VIP Guest

TS-SIS is pleased that Gabriel Horchler, Head of the Law Section of the U.S. and Publisher Liaison Division of the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Services Directorate of Library Services at the Library of Congress, will be our VIP Guest at this year's AALL Annual Meeting. His section at LC does 90% of the law cataloging for the Law Library of Congress. Gabe has never attended an AALL meeting before, so please say hello and thank him for coming if you see him at the Alphabet Soup Reception or one of our various meetings. We are extremely fortunate to have him as our guest!

TS-SIS Business Meeting

A reminder that the TS-SIS Business Meeting will be held, Sunday, July 26, 5:30-6:30pm at the Renaissance Ballroom East.

The agenda, the minutes from last year's business meeting, and the various annual reports are available at the TS-SIS Annual Meeting website. You can also review the changes to the Bylaws, which will be voted on during the meeting. Only a limited number of copies will be available at the meeting itself, so please review them online prior to the meeting.

LC Classification as Gateway to Web Resources?

The Library of Congress is investigating using the inherent access and linking functionality of the Library of Congress online classification system as a finding tool for web resources, taking the KIA, the new Law Classification for Indigenous Peoples in the Americas as an example. KIA works particularly well for this, since it is jurisdictionally based (allowing searching from an online maps -- very cool), and since many of the resources organized in the schedule are not published in traditional formats but rather available only through websites.

View Dr. Jolande Goldberg's poster on the new possibilities for classification schedules as reference tools here, in PDF. She will present it at the 2009 National Conference of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums to be held this October in Portland, Oregon.

OBS Education Committee

Dear Colleagues,
The OBS Education Committee will meet Tuesday, July 28 2009, 7:00 AM - 8:45 AM in Washington Convention Center Room 158 A. Everyone is welcome with ideas and suggestions for programs for next year's conference
"Mapping Our Future" in Denver, Colorado. You do not have to be a member of the committee to propose panels. If you've never done this before, the Committee will help you. Forgive the early hour and the fact that we won't have food or coffee. I hope to see some of you then.
Pat

Patricia Sayre McCoy 
Head, Law Cataloging & Reserves    
D'Angelo Law Library                       
University of Chicago  

SAC report available

My report from the Subject Analysis Committee (SAC) is now posted on the TS-SIS site here.

See you in DC!

Yael

OBS table

Dear OBS-SIS,

I'm setting up the OBS-SIS Exhibit Table this time, so please send me info about any time you have available Sunday-early Tuesday to sit at the table. Any time you have free would be appreciated in hour or half hour stints.

Thanks and looking forward to seeing everyone,

Susan Karpuk

AALL: July 28 EOSi Roundtable Room 144C Reminder

EOSi Roundtable
July 28, 2009
Noon-1:15
Convention Center Room 144C [Check your final program to confirm that the room has not changed]

This is our second annual meeting. This year we will have light snacks only. It was decided last year that we would rather have EOSi personnel rather than a big lunch. This year we will have a speaker phone in the room to talk to EOSi personnel. They will be available for our questions and concerns.

Needed for the meeting:
1. Volunteer to write a report for OBS. Jackie Prentice will be taking notes so she will have the names of the people in her report.
2. Topics you are interested in so EOSi can schedule the appropriate personnel.

Thank you.

BETTY L. ROESKE
Technical Services Librarian
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

TS-SIS program proposals for Summit 2010: Mapping Our Future

To all TS-SIS Members:

If you plan to submit a program proposal, the TS-SIS Education Committee would like to help give your program the best chance of being approved.

Please "Share" your program proposal with me at Carol_Nicholson AT unc.edu on behalf of the TS-SIS Education Committee. Further instructions can be found at http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/annualmeeting/2009/#programideas.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Carol Nicholson, Chair

AALL TS-SIS Education Committee

Classification and Subject Cataloging Policy Advisory Working Group Meeting

Working Group Members and any interested parties are invited to attend the Classification and Subject Cataloging Policy Advisory Working Group Meeting, to be held Tuesday, July 28, 7:30 am – 8:45 am in WCC Rm. 144C. We'll be discussing issues relating to where to class the International Criminal Court (K vs. KZ) and the recently released Genre/Form projects report. In preparation, please read Marie Whited's articles for TSLL at

http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/tsll/34-04/34-04.pdf (p. 7-9)
http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/tsll/34-03/34-03.pdf (p. 10-11)


and Yael Mandelstam and the Form/Genre Editorial Group's list of Genre/Form terms for Law Materials.

Hope to see you there --

Chris Tarr
Chair, CSCPAWG

TS-SIS Serials Committee Meeting

Greetings TS-SISers:

Please plan to attend, and let me know if you are willing to serve as the Recorder.
TS-SIS Serials Committee Meeting
Tuesday, July 28th from 7:30am - 8:45 am
Washington Convention Center, Room 143-C
Preliminary Agenda:

I. Introductions (New Chair & Recorder)

II. Announcements

III. Old business

a. Exchange of Duplicates Program
b. Project Counter Subcommittee

IV. New Business

a. 2010 Annual Meeting Program Proposals
b. Project Ideas for 2009-10

Also, I hope that you will attend the educational program: A-6: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? The Future of Print Periodicals in Law Libraries — WCC, Room 146C on Sunday, July 26, 2009 at 1:30-2:45 p.m.

Other TS-SIS sponsored events and programs can be found at http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/annualmeeting/2009. Coffee and light refreshments will be served at the Serials Committee meeting. (come early, supplies are limited)

Carol Nicholson, Chair
TS-SIS Serials Committee

TS-SIS Annual Meeting Activities & Programs

Don't miss out on TS-SIS Activities & Programs during AALL in DC! The 2009 Annual Meeting Information page contains a calendar with all TS-SIS meetings and programs. There are also annual reports from various committees, proposed bylaws changes to be voted on at the Business Meeting, a form to volunteer to help at the TS-SIS exhibit hall table, and information about program proposals for next year.

Dinner with an AALL VIP!

Hi OBS & TS Colleagues,

Are you attending the Annual Meeting Closing Banquet on Tuesday evening July 28?

Are you interested in meeting a Library of Congress colleague whose work products are widely used in technical services departments throughout the world?

If so, RSVP for one of the limited seats available at the table with OBS-SIS VIP (Valuable Invited Participant) Bruce Johnson. Mr. Johnson is a prominent member of the Policy & Standards Division of the Library of Congress and is very active in the American Library Association (ALA). He is a former Chair of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), ALA’s home for catalogers and technical services librarians. During his nearly 25 year tenure at the Library of Congress, he developed the LC Rule Interpretations looseleaf service. His efforts for the past fifteen years have been largely focused on Cataloger’s Desktop, which has revolutionized how many catalogers find answers to their cataloging questions. Mr. Johnson presented a program highlighting tips and tricks for using Cataloger's Desktop at the AALL Annual Meeting in Portland in 2009, and is offering free training sessions on this product on July 29, 2010 at the Library of Congress (a few slots are still available; contact Karen Selden (karen.selden@colorado.edu) for details). In addition, Mr. Johnson is an avid and accomplished sailor who regularly participates in regattas on Chesapeake Bay.

Don't miss this unique opportunity to meet, welcome, and introduce this special guest to our law library community! RSVP to Karen Selden (karen.selden AT colorado DOT edu) by Friday July 24!

You are invited!

OBS Sponsored Program
Tuesday, July 28, 2:30-4:00 pm

TOC Market Report :

Undervalued TOCs Yield Huge Dividends

OCLC Committee Update and Roundtable

Aloha Washington DC Conference Participants,

Just a quick reminder that OCLC Committee Update and Roundtable will be held on *Sunday, July 26* in* WCC Room 143-A.*

*Update session (Noon-1:15 pm)
*
OCLC's Glenn Patton will give a report and update as follows:

1. A Brief Update on the Record Use Policy (3 min)
The most updated report on Review Board of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship.

2. Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want (20-30 min)
A report based on a number of focus groups and surveys conducted during 2008.

Main web page:
http://www.oclc.org/reports/onlinecatalogs/default.htm

Executive Summary:
http://www.oclc.org/reports/onlinecatalogs/summary.htm

Full report:
http://www.oclc.org/reports/onlinecatalogs/fullreport.pdf

3. Library Management Services to Web scale (15 min)
What's Web-scale management services and what are the benefits of the services.
http://www.oclc.org/productworks/webscale.htm

A & Q Session

*Roundtable discussion (1:30 pm-2:45 pm) *

1. WorldCat Local (20 min)
Effective communication protocol to make suggestions to OCLC for enhancing your WorldCat Local.

2. Expert Community Experiment (15 min)
How we can share our expert to OCLC's cooperative cataloging.
http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/catalog/quality/expert/

3. xISSN OCLC Web Service (15 min)
The xISSN Web service provides ISSNs and other information associated with serial publications in WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/asiapacific/en/xissn/default.htm


Please join us!

OCLC Committee Co-Chair
Ming Lu
Keiko Okuhara

OBS programs and meetings

Dear OBS Colleagues:



Here is a list of the OBS programs and meetings at AALL. I hope to see many of you there!



OBS-SIS Meeting List in Washington, D.C.

* OBS-SIS & TS-SIS Joint Research Grant Committee Meeting
Saturday, July 25, 2009, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Renaissance-Room 1
* OBS/TS/CS-SIS NISO Training Session
Saturday, July 25, 2009, 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Renaissance-Room 2
* OBS-SIS Executive Board Meeting (outgoing)
Saturday, July 25, 2009, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Renaissance-Room 5



* OBS-SIS OCLC/RLIN Update
Sunday, July 26, 2009, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
WCC-Room 143 A
* OBS-SIS OCLC/RLIN Roundtable
Sunday, July 26, 2009, 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
WCC-Room 143 A
* OBS-SIS Roundtable: MarcEdit
Sunday, July 26, 2009, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
WCC-Room 156



* OBS-SIS Local Systems Committee Meeting
Monday, July 27, 2009, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Renaissance-Room 10
* OBS-SIS Special Committee on Record Sharing
Monday, July 27, 2009, 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
WCC-Room 159 B
* OBS-SIS Business Meeting
Monday, July 27, 2009, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Renaissance-Room 3



* OBS-SIS Education Committee
Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 7:00 AM - 8:45 AM
WCC-Room 158 A
* OBS-SIS & TS-SIS Research Roundtable
Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
WCC-Room 142
* OBS-SIS ALEPH Law Users Roundtable
Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
WCC-Room 142
* OBS-SIS EOSi Law Users Roundtable
Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
WCC-Room 144 C
* OBS-SIS InMagic Users Roundtable
Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
WCC-Room 148
* OBS-SIS Voyager Law Users Roundtable
Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
WCC-Room 143 C
* OBS-SIS Program: The TOC Market Report
Undervalued TOCs Yield Huge Dividends
Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
WCC-Room 143 A
* OBS-SIS Program: The TOC Market Report
Undervalued TOCs Yield Huge Dividends (Discussion)
Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
WCC-Room 143 A
* OBS-SIS Executive Board Meeting (incoming)
Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
WCC-Room 142



* OBS-SIS Classification Web and Catalogers Desktop Training at the Library of Congress
Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
OFFSITE-Library of Congress

-Michael Maben

OBS VIP -- Bruce Johnson

Hi OBS Colleagues,

Each year AALL allows each SIS and chapter to invite a VIP (Valuable Invited Participant) to the AALL Annual Meeting. The OBS-SIS Board was pleased that Bruce Johnson, a very prominent member of the Policy & Standards Division of the Library of Congress, accepted the inviation to serve as the OBS VIP at the 2009 AALL Annual Meeting. Mr. Johnson is very active in American Library Association (ALA) activities (he is a former Chair of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), ALA’s home for catalogers and technical services librarians), and during his nearly 25 year tenure at the Library of Congress he developed the LC Rule Interpretations looseleaf service. His efforts for the past fifteen years have been largely focused on Cataloger’s Desktop, a web-based cataloging knowledge system, which has revolutionized how many catalogers find answers to their cataloging questions. Mr. Johnson very generously presented a program highlighting tips and tricks for using Cataloger's Desktop at the AALL Annual Meeting in Portland in 2009, and is also offering free smaller training sessions on this product on July 29, 2010 at the Library of Congress (a few slots are still available; contact me for details).

Mr. Johnson will be attending many programs and sessions at the Annual Meeting, but if you would like the opportunity to meet him personally, he plans to attend the Annual Meeting Closing Banquet on Tuesday evening July 28. If you or someone you know would be interested in joining Mr. Johnson at the closing banquet, please RSVP to me and I'll make arrangements to reserve a table for our group.

Looking forward to seeing many of you in DC in less than 2 weeks!

Karen

InMagic Roundtable

Colleagues:



Elliott Blevins (who through the magic work of IT folk is unable to post himself) would like me to draw your attention to the Inmagic Rountable, to be held at the AALL Annual Meeting. Details follow:


OBS-SIS INMAGIC ROUDTABLE

TUESDAY, JULY 28; 12 nooN-1:15pm

WALTER E. WASHINGTON CONVENTION CENTER (WASHINGTON D.C.)

WCC-Room 148


Elliott suggested that participants bring their lunch and noted that he plans to offer “show and tell” with his laptop. You may reach him at eblevins@sandbergphoenix.com if you have specific questions.

Caitlin Robinson

Voyager Law users Roundtable

The meeting of the Voyager Law Users Roundtable is scheduled for Tuesday, July 28, 2009, from noon until 1:15 PM, in the Washington Convention Center, room 143C. We will be sharing the Ex Libris representative (as we did last year) with the Aleph users' group, which is meeting at the same time. The Ex Libris rep will have about 35 minutes to spend with us, and the rest of the time is open for us to use as we wish.

If you have any particular Voyager-related issues you would like to have the Ex Libris rep address during her time with us, please email me at jmp8@cornell.edu and let me know, so I can let her know. Also, if you have any ideas for discussion topics for the remainder of the meeting time (without the rep), please email them to me as well. The two suggestions I have received so far are:

* A review of enhancement recommendations from law libraries (you can see the list here: http://lawmail.pepperdine.edu/voyager/supplemental/revised_law_enhancement_recommendations.shtml )
* A discussion of non-Roman (Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, plus some others) cataloging in Voyager

Additional discussion topics are welcome. We also need to be thinking about selecting a convener or conveners for next year.

Thank you.

--Jean Pajerek
Cornell Law Library

TOC Market Report

The TOC Market Report: Undervalued TOCs Yield Huge Dividends



at the AALL Annual Meeting in DC



Tuesday, July 28 • 2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. (presentation)

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. (discussion)



Mary Whisner moderates; Chris Mitchell of Blackwell and David Williamson of LC speak.

Rare Book cataloging Roundtable

RARE BOOK CATALOGING ROUNDTABLE

Tues. July 28 10:45-11:45 a.m.
WCC -- Room 158 A

Please bring any and all questions and concerns about rare materials you have to deal with.

Susan Karpuk will talk about cataloging 17th-18th century German dissertations.
Monica Kauppi will talk about a local implementation of genre terms for rare books.

Books for Business

Books for Business, which AALL has engaged to be the at the AALL book
store in D.C. and provide all book selling services in the Exhibit Hall
at our 2009 Meeting, has agreed to give its full support to our book
drive! Jane Cooper, Books for Business founder, has agreed to stock
books from the Book Drive amazon.com wish list at the Books for Business
booth in the exhibit hall during the meeting. She will be pricing the
books the same as Amazon.com and there is no additional shipping cost.

Books for Business is a retail/wholesale/consulting business with
offices in Toronto Canada and Niagara Falls N.Y. Books for Business
founder, Jane Cooper, started the business 20 years ago after a long
career as a librarian. Jane was recently named the Canadian Bookseller
of the Year! Jane writes: "We are looking forward to being at AALL
this year and hope that our selection of books supporting the conference
program and supporting the work of law librarians will appeal."

For more about Books for Business and its guiding force Jane Cooney,
check out: www.booksforbusiness.com. Jane's amazing journey from
librarian, to professor at the University of Toronto, to manager of
information resources worldwide for the Canadian Imperial Bank of
Commerce, to vice president and director of Information Services for the
Bank Marketing Association in the U.S., and finally to the executive
director of the Canadian Library Association is described in: "Network,
know your customers, and sell: former librarian, now a bookseller, has
the same advice for information professionals and entrepreneurs" - See article here.

So, stop by the Books For Business booth, meet Jane and buy a book for
the 2009 Book Drive! And, remember, purchasing books in the exhibit
hall directly from "Books for Business" supports an independent,
librarian-owned bookstore and also avoids shipping costs! A true
win-win for all.

If you are not going to get to the meeting, you can still support the
drive: Here's how:

1) Order a book online from the "AALL Book Drive 2009 Wish List"
on Amazon.com, by searching the Wish Lists for the keyword "aall", or by
going straight here. Books
ordered this way will be delivered directly to Heather Hill Elementary
School.

2) Send check [made out to AALL] or online bookstore gift card to
our Book Drive team:
Leslie M. Campbell
Law Library Program Administrator
Administrative Office of the United States Courts
One Columbus Circle, NE
Room 4-513 South
Washington, DC 20544

Lawberry camp

A new Saturday afternoon in DC activity ...
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WHO: You. Yes, you. It doesn't matter if what type of librarian you are,
how long you've been a librarian, if your management or not, or what
type of library you work in (or if you're employed at all!). If you are
coming to AALL, you are the right person to attend Lawberry Camp.

WHAT: Lawberry Camp, an unconference before AALL. What's an
"unconference?" An unconference is a participant driven meeting. There
are no planned presentations and the topics of discussion will be
decided on by attendees on that day. Facilitators are present to keep
the conversation flowing.

WHERE: WCC-Room 144 C

WHEN: Saturday, July 25 3pm - 6pm

WHY: Because you have something to share. Because you want to hear
what others have to say. Because you want to meet with other law
librarians in an informal setting. Because you have nothing to do the
Saturday afternoon before AALL starts.

HOW: More information and registration can be found at
Lawberrycamp Attendance is limited to 50 people, so don't
delay!

TS Hot Topic

Aloha the SIS member,

This year's TS-SIS hot topic is "Dealing With OCLC's Record Transfer
Policy." The program will be held on *Monday, July 27, 12:15 -1:15 pm
in* *Room 156 of the WCC.*

Come to the Hot Topic session and pose any questions to a panel of
experts who can clarify the direction we are heading in. Program
proposal was made by Phoebe Ruiz-Valera at the Cleary Gottlieb Steen &
Hamilton LLP. The program will be featured by the following individuals:

Moderator: Michael Maben, Chair of the OBS-SIS

Panelists: Roberta Shaffer, Member of the OCLC Review Board of Shared
Data Creation and Stewardship
Pat Callahan, Chair of the OBS-SIS Special Committee
on Record Sharing

OCLC Representative: Glenn Patton, Director, WorldCat Quality Management

Meetings of interest to catalogers . . .

Technical Services Special Interest Section
Cataloging and Classification Standing Committee

2009 Meetings at a Glance

Below is a summary of the meetings and programs scheduled for the annual meeting in Washington, DC that may be of interest to catalogers. It is not a comprehensive list of TS-SIS-sponsored programs.


Sunday, July 26, 2009
12:00-1:15 p.m.
Heads of Cataloging in Large Libraries Roundtable
New Catalogers Roundtable

3:00-4:00 p.m.
Program B-6: “MarcEdit: A Magic Wand for MARC Records”
Cataloging and Classification Roundtable with guest Beacher Wiggins (LC)

Monday, July 27, 2009
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Cataloging & Classification Standing Committee Meeting

10:45 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
Program F-6: “Taking the Aggravation Out of Aggregators: An Update on Aggregator-Neutral Bibliographic Records”
TS-SIS Program: “Cataloging Video Recordings-AACR2 Chapter 7”

12:00-1:15 p.m.
Descriptive Cataloging Policy Advisory Working Group Meeting
TS-SIS ‘Hot Topic’ Program: “Working with OCLC's Record Transfer Policy”

Tuesday, July 28, 2009
7:30-8:45 a.m.
Classification and Subject Cataloging Policy Advisory Working Group Meeting

10:45-11:45 a.m.
Rare Book Cataloging Roundtable

12:00-1:15 p.m.
Task Force on Standards for Vendor-Supplied Bibliographic Records Meeting

2:30-3:15 p.m.
TS-SIS Program: “Redefining Work Roles in Response to Changing Collection Environments”

Agenda -- TS-SIS Cataloging and Classification Standing Committee Meeting

TS-SIS Cataloging and Classification Standing Committee Meeting
Agenda
July 27, 2009
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Renaissance-Room 13
Washington, D.C.


Announcements (5 minutes)



Representatives’ reports
• ALA ALCTS CCS Subject Analysis Committee (SAC) – Yael Mandelstam –also Task Force on Inherently Legal Subject Headings (15 minutes)


• Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information (MARBI) – George Prager (15 minutes)


• Cataloging and Classification Section: Description and Access (CC:DA)- John Hostage (15 minutes)


Task group reports
• Task Group on Standards for Vendor-supplied Bibliographic Records – Angela Jones (10 minutes)


• Classification and Subject Cataloging Policy Advisory Working Group – Chris Tarr (10 minutes)


• Descriptive Cataloging Policy Advisory Working Group – Chris Tarr (5 minutes)


LC Update – Jolande Goldberg (15 minutes)