Access Level Record for Serials Pilot Project

• New CONSER Record Approved (PDF, 9KB) (Announcement from PoCo Chair 11/20/2006)
• Final Report (July 24, 2006)

Documentation

• Cataloging Guidelines (PDF, 130KB) (updated 03/10/06)
• Pilot Instructions (PDF, 63KB)
• Mandatory Element Set (PDF, 98KB) (updated 03/10/06)

Practice Titles

• Bayesian Analysis (external link)
• Contretemps (external link)
• EPA river health bulletin (PDF, 395KB)

Common Titles

• Acta endocrinologica (PDF, 5.79MB)
• Alberta species at risk reports
• Annual accounts (PDF, 1.64MB)
• Exchange (PDF, 7.05MB)
• KLAS (PDF, 1.7MB)
• Lake States forest health watch (external link)
• Statistics of education (PDF, 3.96MB)
• Symmetry

Timeline and Target Dates

Feb. 6-Feb. 24	Preparation phase
Feb. 27-Mar. 10	Training Phase
Mar. 13-Apr. 14	Pilot phase includes record creation, review, data input
Apr. 17-26	Analysis and preliminary report preparation
Apr. 27-28	Presentation and discussion at CONSER Ops.
May 4-7	Presentation at NASIG
May 20 (?)	Final report
June 22-26	Present at ALA to: CC:DA, CRCC, PCC

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Co-Chairs

Regina R. Reynolds
Head, National Serials Data Program
Library of Congress
101 Independence Avenue, S.E. Washington, D.C. 20540-4160
email: [email protected]
voice: (202) 707-6379
fax (202) 707-6333

Diane L. Boehr
Head, Cataloging Section
National Library of Medicine
8600 Rockville Pike Bldg 38 Room 1N08 Bethesda, MD 20894
email: [email protected]
voice: 301-435-7059
fax: 301-402-1211

Working Group Members

To propose the element set based on the user tasks for serials, and to develop the cataloging guidelines.

• Bill Anderson (Serial Record Division, LC)
• Melissa Beck (UCLA)
• Edith Gewertz (New York Public)
• Carolyn Larson (Science, Technology and Business Division, LC)
• Kristin Lindlan (University of Washington)
• Peter McCracken (Serials Solutions)
• Vanessa Mitchell (CSA)
• Hien Nguyen (CONSER ex officio)
• Tina Shrader (National Agriculture Library)
• Steve Shadle (University of Washington)
• Diana Snigorowitz (Serial Record Division, LC)

Review Group Members

To provide comments and feedback to the working group on the proposal and to finalize the element set and cataloging guidelines.
Members:

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Pilot Study Volunteers

To catalog a selected group of serials, first according to current practice and then according to the essential data set and guidelines.

Participants	Contact Persons
Columbia U.	Charlene Chou
Harvard U.	M. J. Cuneo
Library & Archives Canada	Ivan Basar, Bill Leonard
GPO	Jennifer Davis
LC	(coordinator to be determined)
NAL	Tina Shrader
NLM	Diane Boehr
Oklahoma State U.	Co-ming Chan
Stanford U.	Kay Teel
UCLA	Melissa Beck, Valerie. Bross
U. Chicago	Renette Davis
U. Georgia	Beth Thornton
U. Washington	Kris Lindlan, Steve Shadle

Reference/public service staff

To evaluate both sets of records.
Members included many reference and public service staff from participating institutions.

Background Documents

• The Access Level Record for Serials: Post-ALA New Orleans update by Regina Romano Reynolds June 28, 2006 (PPT, 405KB)
• Background (PDF, 76KB) (updated 08/17/05)
• Objectives (PDF, 88KB) (updated 01/17/06)
• Pre-Pilot Cataloging Guidelines (PDF, 183KB) (updated 01/17/06)
• Pre-Pilot Mandatory Element Set (PDF, 184KB) (updated 01/14/05)
• Core Data Set (PDF, 624KB) (updated 12/02/05)

Related Links

• A group of public services and technical services staff was formed at the University of Chicago to come up with some local guidelines for access level records for integrating resources and monographs. Those guidelines are now available at:
  http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/staffweb/depts/cat/serials/university.html (external link)

To view PDFs

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