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AJL RAS Cataloging Committee Virtual Annual Meeting Minutes

17 June 2021, 12:30-2pm EST

 

Old Business

 

  1. Welcome (Neil)
  2. Winter 2021 minutes were approved. (Neil)
  3. Updates on committee membership: Recognition of outgoing members, welcoming new ones (Neil) 

 

New Business

 

  1. Catalogers’ forum – a place where catalogers can talk, maybe once a month, about cataloging issues (Haim)

 

       2. New RDA Toolkit's Community Resources section and the Judaica/Hebraica community (Ahava)

 

       3. Use of Wikidata in creating NARs (Yossi)

 

       4. Update on BM201-449 class schedule expansion (Haim, Marlene; Gabe, absent)

 

       5. Topics for discussion in different forums (workshops/panels/round-tables):

               a. succession planning for Judaica catalogers (Neil, all)

               b. Christian bias in LCSH; Anglo-Centric taxonomies; bias in cataloging; reactions to Cataloging Code of Ethics (Marlene)

 

Future Business

 

  1. New RDA Toolkit's Community Resources section and the Judaica/Hebraica community (Ahava), continue discussion
  2. Updating HCM-RDA to reflect the approved proposal to allow inclusion of patronymic in NARs regardless of the placement of the patronymic element (Jasmin, Neil)
  3. What constitutes "Sacred Works?" Should we have a list of such works (Robert). Ahava has a list from NLI, which she will post for contributions and comments
  4. Update on BM201-449 class schedule expansion (Haim, Marlene, Gabe)
  5. Romanization: updates on Dicta automation and other projects (Ahava and others) 
  6. Helping libraries that have a Hebraica/Judaica collection but no cataloger (Haim)

 

In attendance

 

Sharon Benamou (UCLA)

Jackie Benefraim (AJU)

Ahava Cohen (NLI)

Nahid Dayanim Gerstein (LC)

Jerry Anne Dickel (Yale)

Neil Frau-Cortes (Broward County, FL)

Vanessa Freedman (Univ. College London)

Yossi Galron (OSU)

Haim Gottschalk (LC)

David Levy (Touro)

David Roth (NLI)

Daniel Scheide (FAU)

Marlene Schiffman (YU)

Jasmin Shinohara (UPenn)

Avrom Shuchatowitz (YU)

 

Draft by Neil Frau-Cortes  

 

The task force started looking at BM292-283 (Europe and part of Asia).