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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 129 262 0044 03 T1TIE The Libxiay of Congress as the N ,zonal Dibliographio CentPr.-nnutes of the Semi-Annual Meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (87th, Washington, D.C., October 15-16, 1975). INSTITUTION Assqciation of Research libraries, Washington, D.C. REPORT NO ISSN-0044-9652 Pt9 DATE Oct 75 NOTE 149p.; For a related document see ED 113 T7.97 AVAIIABIE -FROM Association of Research libraries 152 New Hampshire Avenue, N.V., Washington, D.C.20 36 ($5.00) EDRS PRICE MF-$C.83 HC-$7.35 Plus Pos4-..ege. DESCRIPTORS *Cataloging; Conference Reports; Data Bases; *Foundation Programs; Information Services; International Programs; *Library Automation; Library Networks; *National libraries; *National Programs; Research Libraries IDE NTFE RS ARL; Association of Research Libraries;*library of Cong ess; 4Machine Readable Cataloging; ABC; Nati nal Commission Libraries Znformation Science ABSTRACT The Library of Congress was the topic of theOctober, 1975, meeting of the Association of ResearchLibraries (ARL). Presentations were given on: (1) the future uses of automation to aid the library of Congress in its authoritativeinformation and bibliographic data collection and dissemination functions;(2) the progress and projections for the MARC(machine readable cataloging) distribution service and retriever; (3) the national and international automated networks of the library of Congress;and (4) the process of transition to the library's automatedsystems. The director of the research grant division of theNational Endowment for the Eumanities introduced the library-related programsof her division. The National Commission for Libraries and Information Science made a progress report on the'development of anational information service program. Reports of ARLcommissions and executives followed in the business meeting. OM Documents acquired by ERIC include many inforMalunpublished * materials not available from other sources. ERICmakes every effort * * to obtain the best copy available.Vevertheless, items of marginal * * reproducibility are often encounteredand this affects the 'quality * * of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductionsERIC makes available * * via the ZRIC Document ReproductionService (URS). EDPS is not * responsible for the quality of theoriginal document. Reproductions * * suppliedby. ENS are the best tbat'canbe made from the original.. * *************4********************************************************* THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AS THE NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC CENTER Minutes of the Eighty.seventh Meeting October 1546, 1975 Washin)ton D C. DePACUTMENT Of HEALTH. tOLICATION &WELFARE NA/IONIAL INSYITUTIE OF VOLICATION Toils tOcUME 744PSOEEIN REPRO- DuCED !*CVL AS RECEIvED 4OM THE PERsoN ORv4c,,AmIZATTON oR tClry. &TING 17 POINTS OF %/VENN oR opirvioNS SYAYFa 00 NO? NEceisARILy WEPRE- CIENT OFFICIAL RATIONAL INSTITUTE 01- COuCAI,CA POSITIoN OR POLICY ASSOCIATION OF RiiSLAICiI LIBRARIES 2 C ONTENTS Page Ope .. .. .......... 1 THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AND THE ARL Warren J. Haas_ ... AUTOMATION ACTIVITIES AI THE PROCHSSING DEPARTNENT William J. Kel5q1 Ilenrietto D. Abram ..........Ft._ THE CORE BIBLIOGRAPHIC S_STEM Lucia Rather... .14 THE NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC SYSTEM riette D. Avrap.. , . .... .35 TRANSITION TO THE MflOiAT ED SYSTEM John C. Rather... ,49 Piscussion... ..........53 AND THE NATION's RESEARCH LIBRARIES S 9 NATIONAL COMMISS1ON ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE Alphonse GS BUSINESS MEETING NCLISNatIioinal Program Document..... .. ..... .72 Eleetion of Board . .. ..-73 Meeting of ARL Commissions.............. .. .......... .. ... .. ........74 Report of the Commission on Aceess to Resourees............... .. ......75 Report of the Executive Director................ .75 Report of the President. ..... ..... ........ .... .83 Page APPENDICES N. Report of the Commission on Development of Resources 88 B. Report of the Co missiom on Organization of Resources. 89 C. Report of the Commission on Access to Resources.... ..... 91 D. Report of the Commission on Management of Resources__ 92 E. Report of the Committee on Federal 95 F. Report of the Committee on Foreign New.t;papers on Micro . G. Report of the Committee on Laterlitirary Loin... 104 H. Report of the Committee on Access to Manuscripts Rare . .... ........, 106 1. Report of the Committee on Library Acquisitions on East Asia... J. Report of the Committee on Library Acquisitions on Latin K. Report of the Committee on Library Acquisitions on South . .. .116 L. Office of University Library Management Studies .117 Annual Report....... .. .. M. Attendance at 87th N. Officers, Board of Directors, Commissions, Committees and Task Forces of the ARL...... .... O. Membership of the ARL. ... i 4 ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES Minutes of -he 87th Meeting Richard De Gennaro, -residing The Eighty-seventh Meeting of the Association of Research Libraries was held at the Statler Hilton Hotel in Washington, D. C, on October 15 and 16, 1975. President Richard De Gennaro opened the meeting by welcoming and in- troducing new and alternate representatives attending their first ARL meeting and guests of the Association. On behalf of the Association he expressed appreciation to the Library of Congress for hosting ARL members and guests who were taken on tours of the Processing Department of the Library of Congress on October 15. The setting for the program was provided following a reception and dinner on the evening of October 15, when Warren J. Haas spoke on "The Library of Congress and the ARL." 5 THE LIBRARY OF CONGUSS AND THE ARL Warren 3. Haas MR. DE GENNARO: The evening before our last membership meeting,which was held in Houston in May, we had an informal programwhich was called "Getting To Know The ARL."The idea behind that program was that ARL was growing and developing at the same time that itsmembership was increas- ing and- many new directors were coming in as a resultof a surge of retirements and new appointments. We felt it was time to reintroduce the members to ARL and ARL to the members. The success of that program inspired us to plan another introductory type programfor this meeting. For quite some time we have felt the need for an ARL programfocusing on the Library of Congress, and particularly onits role as the national bibliographic center. Like ARL, LC has also been developing new roles and changing. Many of our new members need to be introduced to the Library of Congress and its work, and smile of our old membersneed to become reacquainted with it. By a stroke of good fortune, the LC Processing Department staff under William Welsh, was primedand ready to put on a major program for us at the very timethat this meeting was scheduled to be held here inWashington. As it turns out, we also have the addtd and unexpected pleasure of being able to meetand welceme Daniel Boorstin, the new Librarian of Congress, at this meetingfeaturing the national bibliographic functions of the Libraryof Congress. The program is off to an excellent start. Many of you have already toured the Library of Congress this afternoon and we are all looking forward to the LC program tomorrow morning. To help us get into the right frame of mind for that program and to help us to get a betterperspective on the relationship of ARL to the Libraryof Congress-- past, present, and future--the Board prevailed upon Warren Haas, Vice Presidentfor Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia and a tireless worker for ARL, to speak to us briefly this evening on thesubject of ARL and LC. It is my pleasure to introduce Warren Haas. MR. HAAS: TL think I will begin these remarks with what might well be my conclusion, ARL as an organization, and in this I think I can speak for its component parts as well, owes a substantial debt ofgratitude to its mosteprominent member, the Library ofCongress. Taken together, the many distinctive and important programsundertaken by LC, independently and in concert with ARL, have helped individual researchlibraries enormously as they have sought to fulfill theirobligations to the country's students and scholars. The results of LC's efforts and expendi- tures have been amplified hundreds of times overin academic and research 6 libraries across the country. Tomorrow morning's program, during which William Welshand his colleagues will describe their plans for the ever-expandingset of programs that have more and more become anintegral part of our own operations, promises to be a kind of high-water mark in theLC/ARL relationship that began, somewhat haltingly, about 40 years ago. Frank McGowan in a ,hapter of his 1972 thesis, The Associationof Research Libraries 932-1962, notes that despite an early ARL/LC collaborative effor_ that of creating an interlibrary loan clearinghouse through the LC Union Catalog, participation by LC in ARL was atbest low-keyed during the first four or five years of ARL's history, a situation that prompted a note from Louis Hanke (then theLC-designated representative to ARL) to Archibald MacLeish suggesting thatthe time had arrived for the Library of Congress to play its "properpart" in the Association. The spirit of the preceding years prevailed,however, and there was no response. But a dramatic success was not long in coming. In 1940, Paul North Rice, follo_ing up on discussionswithin ARL and acting in his capacity as an ARL Committee Chairman,raised with MacLeish a proposal to print the Library of Congress Catalogin book form, a suggestion that, was promptly acted upon. The results were and still are clearly remarkable,