[Yulcat-l] ALCTS announces New Forum On Series Authority Records

[Steven Arakawa]

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For Immediate Release May 19, 2006

ALCTS announces New Forum On Series Authority Records

CHICAGO - The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services 
(ALCTS) invites everyone to attend a new ALCTS Forum on the Library of 
Congress Series Authority Record Decision. The forum will take place on 
Friday, June 23, beginning at 4 p.m. in the Morial Convention Center, Room 
386/387 at the American Library Association (ALA) 2006 Annual Conference in 
New Orleans.

On April 20, 2006, the Library of Congress issued a memo changing a 
long-standing practice of creating series authority records. Implementation 
of the decision was to be May 1. "The Library of Congress has determined 
that it will cease to provide controlled series access in the bibliographic 
records that its catalogers produce. Its catalogers will cease creating 
series authority records (SARs)."

The decision met with unparalleled opposition as librarians and 
organizations such as the American Library Association (ALA) and ALCTS 
expressed their concerns over the decision-making process and the 
implications for libraries.

ALCTS, in its ongoing effort to encourage discussion on important issues 
such as the SARs decision, has brought together a distinguished panel of 
experts for this new Forum. Moderated by Cynthia Whitacre, chair of the 
ALCTS Cataloging and Classification Section (CCS), panelists include 
Beacher Wiggins, Director for Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access, Library of
Congress, Glenn Patton, OCLC Director of WorldCat Quality Management, and 
Mark Watson, chair of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging.

Don't miss this exciting event at the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans, 
sponsored by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services 
(ALCTS).

ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association.

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Steven Arakawa
Catalog Librarian for Training & Documentation
Catalog Dept. Sterling Memorial Library. Yale University.
P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240
(203)432-8286 steven.arakawa at yale.edu