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AJL RAS Cataloging Committee Virtual Annual Meeting

16 June 2025, 12:30-1:30 pm EDT (11:30am CDT, 9:30am PDT, 7:30pm IST) | Zoom

Old Business

1. Welcome and designate note taker (Daniel)
2. Approve minutes from 2024 Summer meeting (Daniel) 
3. Committee membership updates (Daniel)

New Business

1. Hebraica cataloging documentation (Tali)
2. HCM-RDA updates (Lili and Jasmin) 
• Cosmetic consistency, unifying text ("vernacular" vs "Hebrew script" versus "In resource") and styles (bolding or not bolding)
• Linked Table of Contents with breadcrumbs to the TOC at the end of every page
• Corrections to some romanization examples 
• Added Hebrew script in examples that illustrate construction of parallel fields
• Checked links & updated where necessary
• Rearranged or added sections based on RDA policy changes
• Edited: 6.2.2.10.3 compilations of two or more works by one agent to reflect current PCC policy
• Moved previous policy instructions to Appendix as a reference for legacy records
• Added: 6.30.3.2 authorized access point representing an expression of the Bible
• Updated Yiddish personal names to be current with the wiki
3. NLI updates (Elad)
4. PCC updates (Jasmin)
1. NACO update: PCC's Policy Committee (PoCo) approval of the recommendations of the Standing Committee on Standard's (SCS) Task Group (TG) on Evaluation Guidelines for Non-Latin Script References in Name Authority Records. The TG has been discharged and SCS will be creating a new task group to work on the implementation of the recommendations.
1. Final report here. Approved recommended guidelines here. All TG docs here. 
2. SACO update: projects paused, https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/saco/projects.html