Why would you want to join the SACO Program?
There are proven benefits to SACO members as a result of the program’s mission and goals:
- Involvement in a program that is shaping the future of subject cataloging practice
- Participation in the review and development of cost-efficient national and international subject cataloging standards
- Opportunity to design and develop training course material
- Participation in PCC standing committees and task forces that define and extend the SACO Program's policies, objectives, and standards
- Reduction in the costs of cataloging operations
- Reduction in the burden of cataloging commonly-held materials
- Reduction in the amount of local authority creation and maintenance
- Representation on the PCC Policy Committee
- Increase in the number of catalogers working globally at defined cataloging standards
- Increase in the number of cataloging records that can be used with little or no local editing
- Increase in the number of authority records available to the larger library community
- Access to free online training materials and selected cataloging documentation
- Participation in career development opportunities through interaction with colleagues around the world