Third Quarterly Report

PCC Standing Committee on Training (SCT)
June 2008

The PCC Standing Committee on Training has been actively working on various training initiatives as outlined below.

PCC SCT committee members: Paige Andrew (Pennsylvania State University), Barbara Bushman (National Library of Medicine), Jacqueline Byrd (Indiana University), Caroline Miller, Chair (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrea Stamm (Northwestern University)

Liaisons: Glenn Patton (OCLC), Carolyn Sturtevant (LC/BIBCO)

NLM's Online Medical Cataloging Courses

Though the PCC SCT charged Barbara Bushman to gather a task group to develop a medical cataloging course for the PCC, Barbara's employer, the National Library of Medicine decided to proceed with developing their own online courses to train in NLM Classification and in MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) to be made freely available via the NLM website. NLM agreed to share all the training materials with the PCC for further development of these courses as needed by PCC libraries.

Barbara's report to the SCT:
Diane Boehr (Head of Cataloging), Sharon Willis (Senior Cataloging Specialist), and myself have teamed up with Rachel Kleinsorge from the Bibliographic Services Division of NLM to create two online courses, one on subject cataloging using MeSH and the other on using the NLM Classification. The courses will be available free online via NLM's website. The courses are being created in HTML and JavaScript using Macromedia Dreamweaver with the course builder extension. Users will be able to take an entire course or select individual modules for a refresher. Each module will consist of instructional slides followed by interactive exercises. To date we have completed a general outline for each course, Modules 1 and 3 of the MeSH course, and Module 1 of the Classification Course. Our goal is to have both entire courses completed by the end of calendar year 2008.

We plan to provide PCC with the course content in the form of unformatted slides by ALA Midwinter 2009. These slides can then be developed into an official PCC course. Additional modules could be created by experienced catalogers at medical libraries utilizing LCSH and LCC and added to the provided content.

I along with Sharon Willis presented a demo of our course at the BIBCO OpCo meeting on May 2 at LC. I am presenting an updated demo at the NACO/BIBCO Trainers and the BIBCO-At-Large meetings in Anaheim. We would be happy to present an updated demo at the PoCo annual meeting at LC in November if requested. We would be able to present a full or partial workshop of the completed course(s) as a program at ALA Annual 2009 or ALA Midwinter 2010 (similar to what was done for previous PCC SCT courses) if requested by the PCC.

Task Group to Develop Training in Map Cataloging

Report from Paige Andrew:

Pennsylvania State University will be hosting the online course. Paige Andrew is currently waiting to receive training in Course Management System (CMS) authoring, which will take place in mid-July. After 8 hours of CMS training he will begin creating the course in earnest.

Paige hopes to have something very rudimentary (text only probably) in place by the end of July, then use the following months to continue to add content, new formatting and navigation tools. He believes he is still on target to have a pretty complete "first draft" Webpage done by the end of 2008.

Task Group members:

Paige Andrew, Chair (Pennsylvania State University)
Susan Moore (University of Northern Iowa)
Mary Larsgaard, consultant (University of California, Santa Barbara)

BIBCO Training Materials Revision Group

Report from Iris Wolley:

The Group is charged to:

1. Assess the current BIBCO Training Manual (4th revised edition, 2004) and the BIBCO Participants' Manual (2002), taking into account:
   • Changes in monographic cataloging in recent years
   • Errors or clarifications in the present edition
   • Additional formats and instructional methods to make the materials more appealing and effective
   • The benefits of linking the two sets of materials more closely
   • Comments and feedback received from users of both documents
2. Prepare a revised version of the documentation for review by the SCT and appropriate LC staff.

Editors:
Magda El-Sherbini, Ohio State University
Rebecca R. Malek-Wiley, Tulane University
Caroline R. Miller, University of California, Los Angeles
Louise Ratliff, University of California, Los Angeles
Carolyn Sturtevant, Library of Congress
Iris Wolley, Columbia University (project coordinator)

Some basic changes

1. Decision made to keep both manuals: The BTM will contain only training materials and the BPM will contain only administrative materials
2. References to RLIN removed from both manuals
3. The word utilities changed to OCLC where appropriate
4. Similar text needed in both manuals, such as BPM A2 History and BTM Part 2 History PPT slides, should be referenced to one another
5. Exercises in BPM Part E removed and incorporated into the BTM Part 5 exercises
   • Brief text about the exercises will remain in the BPM
6. Most of the BPM parts relating to BIBCO training will remain, but will be brief. For example, SACO has more detailed text in Part 6 of the BTM, but mention of it will remain in the BPM as it pertains to the BIBCO program. Another example: BPM sections that contain information on adapting, upgrading, modifying existing records. We think it important to keep brief text about these in the BPM while more definitive information is given in BTM Part 5 exercises.
7. Appendices moved from BTM to the BPM
   • Appendix 4 BIBCO liaison responsibilities
   • Appendix 5 BIBCO institutional responsibilities
   • Appendix 7 Bibliography in the BTM merged with the bibliography in the BPM and the links updated due to changes to the PCC Web pages
8. Exercises in BTM Part 5 that have10-digit ISBNs will be updated to include 13-digit ISBNs
9. Retrospective conversion in the BPM will be deleted and addressed briefly in the BTM
10. Additional genre terms 655: 0: (based on LCSH topical/form headings) added to BTM Part 5 Exercises along with the current policy
11. Incorporated references to LC's 2006 change in series policy and to the PCCs continuing policy on series

Timeline:
The first draft for LC review will be available at the end of August 2008.

New PCC Standing Committee on Training Chair

Rebecca Uhl (Arizona State University) will be the new incoming Chair of the PCC Standing Committee on Training when Caroline Miller's term is over in September 2008. Welcome Becky!

Respectfully submitted,

Caroline R. Miller
Chair, PCC Standing Committee on Training
June 2008