I have seen several comments on various email lists asking whether PCC can "do anything" about LC's decision regarding series, so thought I would share these recommendations which were made at the joint CONSER and BIBCO Operations Meeting last Friday.
Renette
X-Authentication-Warning: sun8.loc.gov: lhaw owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 09:44:07 -0400 Reply-To: CONSER Cataloging Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: CONSER Cataloging Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-PH: V4.4 (uchicago), $Revision: 1.70 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Les Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Recommendations from Operations meetings Comments: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comments: cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Help: <http://listserv.loc.gov/cgi-bin/wa?LIST=CONSRLST>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CONSRLST> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Owner: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://listserv.loc.gov/cgi-bin/wa?LIST=CONSRLST> X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 mlx=0 adultscore=0 adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-06042601 definitions=3.0.0-06050102 X-Uchicago-PMX-Id: 140.147.249.48: k41E9mqb016978 [Mon May 1 09:09:55 2006] X-Uchicago-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7% X-Uchicago-Spam-Tests: Failed='__C230066_P5 0, __CT 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' The BIBCO and CONSER Operations Committees met jointly last week and voted to make the following recommendations to the PCC Policy Committee: The BIBCO and CONSER Operations Committees recommend to the PCC Policy Committee: 1) That it officially communicate to the Library of Congress the concerns that have arisen on our email lists and in discussion at our meetings about LCs new series policy 2) That the PCC evaluate series practices in the following areas: 1. Simplify series authority creation and documentation to support it. Areas that should be covered include: a. Bib maintenance b. Unambiguous distinction of strong vs weak series c.Selcted series authority control or total 2. Assess importance of series authority control 3. Cost benefit analysis of both original series control work and copy cataloging 4. Establish a discrete time frame for this evaluation process Les Hawkins CONSER Coordinator Library of Congress Washington, DC 202 707-5185
