1)  Discussion on the Library of Congress’ decision to cease providing series authority control; with guests David Banush and Karen Calhoun

2)  Discussion on Karen Calhouns’ final report prepared for the Library of Congress, “The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools,” with guest Karen Calhoun

3)  Instruction Registration Calendar discussion with guest Tony Cosgrave

4)   Reference and Outreach Committee membership

Attendees:  Eleanor Brown, Kathy Chiang, Anne Kenney, Zsuzsa Koltay, Xin Li, Pat Schafer, Kornelia Tancheva, Kizer Walker

Guests:  David Banush, Karen Calhoun, Tony Cosgrave

1)  Discussion on the Library of Congress’ decision to cease providing series authority control; with guests David Banush and Karen Calhoun (David sent out a handout explaining the situation before the meeting)

§   Effective June 1, the Library of Congress (LC) is no longer tracing series statements for those monographic titles issued as part of a series

§   What are the options?

• Manually edit items with series statements out of the fastcataloging stream; this option would need 3 more full time employees
• Continue to accept LC catalog records for fastcataloging, which will cause a gradual reduction in the users’ ability to search by authorized forms for series titles
• Look into the software tool for the Voyager system that Gary Strawn (Northwestern University) is developing; it will use algorithms to compare series statements in LC records with the authority-controlled form and flip the untraced statements to traced headings
• Make a list of items in series that will always need to be tracked

ACTION ITEMS:

ü   Support the pursuit of Gary Strawn’s program

ü   Mark off series for special consideration

ü   Review/update in a year

2)  Discussion on Karen Calhouns’ final report prepared for the Library of Congress, “The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools,” with guest Karen Calhoun

§   Karen and PSEC discussed the differing opinions this paper has caused in the community

§    Then the future of library collections were discussed

3)  Instruction Registration Calendar discussion with guest Tony Cosgrave

§    PSEC agreed to have Mann Library and IRIS jointly fund the calendar system for another year to encourage participation

§   Next year the cost will be divided between participating units

4)   Kornelia presented her concerns to PSEC about the Reference and Outreach Committee membership, which PSEC proposed solutions to