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AJL RAS Cataloging Committee Virtual Midyear Meeting
3 March 2021, 12:30-2pm EST | Zoom
New Business
1. Welcome, Introductions (Neil, all, 30 minutes)
a. Approve minutes from 2020 AJL RAS Cataloging Committee meeting (Neil, 2 minutes)
2. Incoming coordinator of Hebrew NACO/BIBCO/SACO funnels (Neil, Heidi, 5 minutes)
3. Patronymics in NARS (Haim, Aaron, 5 minutes)
4. New class number schedule for history of Judaism by region or country (Marlene, 15 minutes)
"The current schedule (BM201-449) reflects some general geographic approach, which allocates some sparsely populated countries with little Jewish presence a full class number, while Hungary has just one cutter under 'Other European countries'."
5. Other business
Future (2021 Summer) Business
a. What content should be in the section?
b. Who should be responsible for it?
2. What constitutes "Sacred Works?" Should we have a list of such works (Heidi, Robert)
3. Use of Wikidata in creating NARs (Yossi, 5-10 minutes)
a. See: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page
b. Example: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6560822
4. Update from Marlene on class schedule expansion
5. Christian bias in LCSH
6. Other business