Standing Committee on Training

Task Group on PCC Participant and Training Documentation

Background:

Program participants and other catalogers make frequent use of existing PCC documentation to assist them in their cataloging activities and have requested that such documentation be more widely available. Currently, NACO and CONSER documentation is owned by CDS, although BIBCO documentation is not. The Task Group will also explore the copyright issues and costs of providing PCC training documentation. The Task Group will further recommend a strategy for keeping documentation up to date that does not place the full weight of the revisions on members of the Library of Congress. The Task Group will coordinate with the Task Group on Web-Based Training and Distance Education specifically on issues of copyright.

Charge

The PCC Policy Committee charges the Standing Committee on Training's Task Group on PCC Participant and Training Documentation to:

• Investigate methods for keeping training and participant documentation up to date and to explore a variety of delivery mechanisms for the documentation
• Prepare a functional evaluation of different delivery mechanisms for documentation
• Analyze the cost implications of making existing documentation more widely available and specifically explore cost recovery options
• Analyze the copyright issues relating to PCC documentation
• Recommend methods for making existing documentation more widely available
• Describe the support required from the PCC and others for carrying out the recommendations
• Develop a plan for sharing responsibility for updating documentation among a wider group of PCC members

Time frame: Interim report due September 15, 2000. Final report due December 31, 2000.

Final report of the Task Group submitted on Dec. 28, 2000.