Program for Cooperative Cataloging
Standing Committee on Standards
Annual Report
Oct. 2006 - Sept. 2007
Members
As reported in the FY2006 SCS annual report, no new members had been
appointed to the committee since 2003. At the end of September 2006, the
terms of the chair and two remaining appointed members expired. Four
members were appointed for three-year terms beginning Oct. 1, 2007:
Diane Boehr (National Library of Medicine)
Peter V. Fletcher (University of California, Los Angeles)
Joseph Kiegel (University of Washington)
Ann Sitkin (Harvard Law School Library)
David Reser (LC) and Jay Weitz (OCLC) continued in their role as committee
liaisons.
Diane Boehr continued to serve as co-chair and as the SCS representative on
CONSER's Access Level Record for Serials Working Group and the Working
Group on Authentication Codes and Encoding Levels for Serials and
Integrating Resources.
Peter Fletcher was appointed as the PCC Liaison to the CC:DA and
participated in the activities of that group throughout the year.
Joan Schuitema of the University of Illinois at Chicago was appointed to
serve a two-year term as chair effective Oct. 1, 2007. Additional new
members will be appointed during FY2008 in an effort to restore staggered
membership terms and to expand committee membership expertise and/or
experience to include additional areas such as non-MARC metadata.
Meetings:
The Committee met during ALA Midwinter in Seattle, Washington. Committee
members reviewed the SCS charges and the recommendations on the future of
the group as outlined in FY2006 SCS annual report. Members also reviewed
the PCC Tactical Action items developed by PoCo in an effort to identify
additional areas where the SCS should be involved (i.e., working with other
metadata communities on cooperative activities, the Virtual International
Authority File initiative, the need to move the PCC from concentrating
solely on traditional standards to new and different directions, etc.).
The SCS will be charged in FY2008 to conduct a formal review of its mission
and charges.
Committee members also discussed the establishment of a new SCS Task Group
on Series. Based on the committee's recommendation, a PCC Ad Hoc Series
Review Task Force was formed in June 2007 and charged to consider long-term
benefits, costs, and simplification of series authority control. SCS
members Joe Kiegel and Peter Fletcher were appointed to the group.
Because the committee had no new assignments or projects, it did not meet
during ALA Annual.
Respectfully submitted,
Mechael Charbonneau, PCC Policy Committee, Chair Emeritus
Oct. 25, 2007
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