Present:
Sue Neumeister, Chair Linette Koren (SEL)
Lara Bushallow-Wilbur (UGL) Ellen McGrath (Law)
R. Ellen Greenblatt (CTS) Rick McRae (Music)
Gayle Hardy-Davis (LML) Diane Ward (CTS)
Don Hartman (LML) Lori Widzinski (HSL)
Judith Hopkins (CTS)
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEWSue described the OCLC Cataloging of Internet Resources project and how this committee had been created. Since it was CTS which had volunteered to be a participant in the OCLC project the question was raised as to whether all records input should be done under the one UB symbol or should each of the other units interested in participating apply for its own project participant status? If the former Sue said that her CTS ACQ Bibliographic Control Section would be willing to input the records created by other units. A related question is Who will maintain the records created as part of the project?
Sue provided the address of the Intercat list @ OCLC.ORG for those committee members who had not yet subscribed to it. She also distributed some handouts, including "Guidelines for cataloging internet resources" by Vianne Sha, University of Missouri-Columbia Law Library; and a list of documentation to review. Rick McRae provided copies of LC's "Guidelines for the use of field 856".
SELECTION PROCESS TO IDENTIFY SOURCE RECORDS
The committee first considered Why we should want to catalog internet resources. The consensus was to enable our patrons, both local and remote, to find materials that they might otherwise overlook.
It was agreed that the following criteria should be applied in selecting Internet resources to catalog:
The committee called up the Academic Departments menu on Wings and parcelled them (plus local research centers) among the committee members to review to try to identify candidate records to catalog.
PROCESS TO PROVIDE ACCESS THROUGH OCLC AND BISON
Sue said she would distribute the OCLC "Guidelines for
Bibliographic Description of Internet Resources" as soon as they
became available. [1992 Draft was distributed on 3/15]
It was agreed that committee members would practice
cataloging the identified sources, using worksheets. Worksheets
that would be useful for the non-cataloger members of the
committee would have to be devised. Several people would catalog
each one. A suggestion was made that composite records should
first be entered into BISON to assess the resulting public mode
display. Only after any changes resulting from this assessment
had been made would records be sent to OCLC.
MISCELLANEOUS
Sue will ask Jim Gerland to set up a LISTSERV list for the
Committee. The next meeting was scheduled for Monday, 3 April at
2:00 pm in 220 SEL.
Minutes prepared by Judith Hopkins.
Diane Ward - Philosophy, Arts and Sciences
Ellen McGrath - Law, Engineering
Ellen Greenblatt - Anthropology; Great Lakes Research
Gayle Hardy-Davis - Communications, Information & Library Studies
Don Hartman - Management; Center for Applied Public Affairs
Lori Widzinski - Pharmacy, Ophthamology
Linette Koren - Physics, Computer Science; NCEER
Lara Bushallow-Wilbur - Architecture and Planning;
Undergraduate degree programs
(to be shared with Ellen Greenblatt)
Judith Hopkins - Geography
Sue Neumeister - CEDAR
Rick McRae - Geology, Mathematics;
Stochastic and Computational Mechanics