Annual Report of the Standing Committee on Training

September 12, 2002

The Standing Committee on Training (SCT) continues to work to identify the need for training programs, workshops, and institutes aimed at developing cataloging skills that support the Program goals for both new participants and for continuing education and to identify, develop as necessary, and promote the distribution of easy-to-use documentation in support of Program goals.

Outgoing members of the Standing Committee on Training are: Carol Hixson (Outgoing Chair), Cecilia Botero, Valerie Bross, and Jerry Saye. Continuing members include: David Banush (Incoming Chair), Bill Garrison, Louise Rees, Frieda Rosenberg, Heather Rosie, Adam Schiff. Liaisons include: Ed Glazier, RLG Liaison, Glenn Patton, OCLC Liaison, and Ana Cristán, BIBCO Liaison. Banush, Rosenberg, Rosie, and Schiff were appointed in fiscal year 2001/2002.

BIBCO Participants' Manual

With the assistance of the BIBCO Operations Committee, individual BIBCO catalogers, and numerous staff at the Library of Congress, the BIBCO Participants' Manual was completed this year and delivered in August 2002 to CDS for distribution. It is available on the Web at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/bibco/bpm.pdf. A new section on the cataloging of Integrating Resources is being prepared by Diane Boehr and Alice Jacobs of NLM and should be available by summer 2003. This document will be included in the CONSER and BIBCO Manuals
and may also be made available as a stand-alone document.

Full and Core Standards

The SCT requested a review of Core standards and an articulation of Full standards from the Standing Committee on Standards (SCS). As drafts were made available, SCT members provided feedback and later endorsed the standards developed by the SCS.

Integrating Resources

Working closely with the BIBCO and CONSER coordinators, the Standing Committee on Training and the Standing Committee on Standards commissioned Steven Miller (University of Wisconsin) to develop a workshop on integrating resources for the BIBCO/CONSER Operations Committee meeting in May, 2002. The workshop was well-received and more in-depth training has been developed for an SCCTP course. The presentation is available on the BIBCO Web site.

SCT/SAC Training Effort

The SCT/SAC effort to develop training materials on the use of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) continues. Most of the course content has been developed in draft form. The PCC Steering Committee and the Executive Director of ALCTS have begun to discuss the archiving and ownership of the content of the training materials. Both groups agreed, in principle, to sharing the ownership and distribution of the content and must now work out the details.

Continuing Education Efforts

Hixson and CONSER Coordinator Jean Hirons co-authored a white paper in November 2001 on
the PCC Role in Continuing Education for Catalogers, available on the Web site at:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/whitepapertrng.html

Arising from the SCT's involvement in continuing education, Hixson is chairing an ALCTS Task Force on Continuing Education for Catalogers (LC Action Plan Item 5.3) She will continue to report on the progress of this effort to the SCT through reports to incoming Chair, David Banush, as well as by making information available on the group's Web site http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~chixson/cetf/CETFHome.html.

International Efforts

The appointment of Heather Rosie of the British Library to the SCT in May 2002 will facilitate the exploration of issues of importance to the PCC's international membership. Under the new Chair's leadership, potential obstacles to effective international participation will be explored and training targeted to address those concerns.
Respectfully submitted, Carol Hixson Chair, Standing Committee on Training