STANDING COMMITTEE ON AUTOMATION
ANNUAL REPORT
OCT. 2006-SEPT. 2007
Task Group on Normalization: The task group’s report,
entitled Authority File Comparison Rules, was submitted
and posted on the PCC Web site. After the report was posted, the
Steering Committee asked what the next steps should be. Task group
chair Gary Strawn suggested that they should be to:
- Decide to implement the report.
- Figure out some mechanism to use for disambiguating references
that are now clearly in conflict.
- Set up a schedule.
- Fix problems that result from the change.
In Sept. 2007, Gary Strawn noted that he was still unsure whether
the report had been adopted as official policy. BIBCO Operations
Committee chair Carolyn Sturtevant investigated at LC and learned
that “about half of the new NACO normalization elements were folded
into the Unicode implementation.” However, a revised table to reflect
the recent revisions was lacking. Carolyn suggested that the task
of creating such a table might be assigned to someone on the original
task group.
Monographic Aggregator Task Group: A number of
steps were taken to publicize this task group’s MARC Record
Guide for Monograph Aggregator Vendors:
- A notice about the availability of the guide appeared in the
Apr. 2007 issue of ALCTS Newsletter Online. The notice
included a link to the guide on the PCC web site.
- A message announcing the guide was sent out to the NISO AVIAC
(Automation Vendor Information Advisory Committee)
list.
- A message announcing the availability of the guide on the
PCC web site was sent to the ALCTS Publisher-Vendor-Library Relations
list.
Members of the task group and of Standing Committee on Automation
were asked if there were specific aggregators who should be alerted
to the existence of the guide, but no suggestions were forthcoming.
Meetings: Because the committee’s two active task
groups had completed their charges early in the year and because
the committee had no new assignments or projects, it did not meet
at either ALA Midwinter or ALA Annual.
Membership: The terms of committee members Gary
Charbonneau (chair) and Liz Brown expired at the end of September.
Adolfo Tarango of the University of California, San Diego, was
appointed to serve as chair for 2007-2010. The Steering Committee
requested that the committee add two new members in each of the
years 2007/08 and 2008/09 to bring its size up to the level of
the other standing committees. Gary Charbonneau agreed to serve
as a regular member for the single year 2007/08 and to represent
the committee at the November Policy Committee meeting, since incoming
chair Adolfo Tarango will be unable to attend. One additional new
member needs to be identified for a 2007-2010 term to fulfill the
Steering Committee’s request.
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