2009 Cataloging Committee Agenda

July 5, 2009 3-5:30

Committee Business

• Appreciation of Bernard Rabenstein, ז"ל (All, 5 min.)
• Approve 2008 Minutes, designate minute-taker (Jasmin, 5 min.)
• Membership rotation (Jasmin, 5 min.)
• Check on wiki use/questions/participation (Jasmin, 5 min.)
• Ideas for reporting bibliographic record errors (Jasmin, 5 min.)

RDA

• [update at LC session; John Attig’s RDA session Tues. 2:30-3:45; Heidi's work at Stanford]

Authority Control

• LC interim guidelines on non-Roman headings/references in authority & bibliographic records (Joan, 20 min.)
• Desire to move forward with subcommittee/task force to propose best practices, or wait till Policy & Standards publishes official rules to which the Cataloging Committee will respond? (All, 5 min.)

Bibliographic Description

• Desire to move forward with subcommittee/task force for standardization of vernacular description? (All, 5 min.)
• Yiddish words of Hebrew/Aramaic origin -- Prework (Joan, Aaron, 20 min.)
• “Hebrew ketiv, the catalog and the reader” : Presentation (Elhanan, 20 min.)