Standing Committee on Automation: Annual Report 2001

Oct. 1, 2000-Sept. 30, 2001

Meetings

The committee met twice as a body; namely, at ALA Midwinter on Jan. 14, 2001 -- See the Notes of SCA Meeting at ALA Midwinter, Washington, D.C., and at ALA Annual on June 17, 2001 -- See the Notes of SCA Meeting at ALA Annual, San Francisco, Calif.

Task Group Work

• Task Group on Automated Classification -- See the Final report submitted Dec. 29, 2000.
• 2nd Task Group on Journals in Aggregator Databases -- See the Interim report submitted Oct. 25, 2000, and the
  Final report submitted Oct. 23, 2001.
• Task Group on OCLC Batch Processing -- See the Final report submitted June 2001.

Current/Pending Activities

No task groups are currently active. However, the Standing Committee on Automation has been asked by the Library of Congress to play the lead role in task 4.1 of LC's action plan for Bibliographic Control of Web Resources: "Develop specifications for addressing issues related to record supply and maintenance for aggregated resources to provide mechanisms for: detecting and reporting changes in resource content; changing records; and notifying libraries when changes are made. Communicate the specifications to the vendor community and encourage their adoption." The committee has been asked for a work plan to fulfill this charge. It seems reasonable to suppose that the charge will result in the formation of a new task group.

Report submitted by Gary Charbonneau, chair 01-10-2002