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The Sum of the Parts: Sharing the Responsibility for Bibliographic Control. Minutes of the Meeting of the Association of Research Libraries (103Rd, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, October DOCUMENT RESUME ED 244 630 IR 050 728 AUTHOR Daval, Nicola, Ed. TITLE The Sum of the Parts: Sharing the Responsibility for Bibliographic Control. Minutes of the Meeting of the Association of Research Libraries_(103rd, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, October 19-20, 1983). INSTITUTION Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C. PUB DATE 84 NOTE 103p.; For related documentS, t66 ED 234 785 and ED 238 437. AVAILABLE FROMAssociation of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036 (ARL Members:$15.00 $25.00 per * per year, $7.50 per copy. Non-members: year, $12.50 per copy). PUB TYPE Collected Works Conference Proceedings (021) Viewpoints (120) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC05 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Cataloging; Library Administration; Library Associations; *Library Catalogs; *Library Materials; Library Research; Meetings; *Policy Formation; *Research Libraries IDENTIFIERS Access Control; *Bibliographic Control;,Library of Congress ABSTRACT Program presentations on issues related to bibliographic control and access to collectiont andbusiness meeting minutes are combined in this report. Underthe program title, "The Sum of the Parts: Sharing Responsibility,"the following addresses are included:(1) "The Building Blocks: Eltments in a System of Distributed Responsibility," by Martin Runkle; (2) "The Keystone:The Role of the Library of Congress," Lucia Rather;(3) "The Barriers: Knowing and Facing the Problems," Henriette Avram; and(4) "The Blueprint: A Plan for Action," David Bishop. Aconcluding discussion covers points from all four papers.Business meeting minutes summarize -a preliminary session and present details ofthe second session. Reports from the Office of Management Studies, theCouncil on Library Resources, and the ARLExecutive Director and President are included, as well asdescriptions of the election of new board members and consideration of a new member library.Appendices provide background documents for the program session, including"Authority Control and Its Place," by Henriette Avram; a summaryof responses to an ARL guestionnaire onaccepting cataloging copy; additional reports; and lists of meeting participants;members of the ARL board, task forces, and committees; and member libraries.(LMM) *********************************************************************** * * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. *********************************************************************** US. OEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION_ NA I IONAE INS? II Un 01DUCA I ION -_,li..#4.I,,r41U i1:1.1 A II, !,. ,,,I1,II it October 19-20, 1983 Chapel Hill, North Carolina "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY (1), rina/rta. TO_THE EDU_CATLONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." Minutes of the 103rd Meeting The Association of Research Libraries ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES OFFICERS AND BOARD 1983 James F. Govan; University of North Carolina PreSident Eldred Smith, University of Minnesota Vice President/President -Elect Millicent D. Abell, University of California, San Diego Past President Sterling J. Albrecht; Brigham Young University (Oct. 1983) Hugh C. Atkinson, University of Illinois (Oct. 1985) Patricia Bailin, Columbia University (Oct 1985) John P. McDonald; University of Connecticut (Oct. 1983) William J. Studer, Ohio State University (Oct. 1984) Richard J. Talbot, University of Massachusetts (Oct: 1984) Paul Vassal lo, University of New Mexico (Oct. 1985) Anne Woodsworth, University of Pittsburgh (Oct. 1984) STAFF Shirley E.chelman Executive Director - Carol A. M-z ndel Associate Executive Director Nicola Daval Information Officer Jeffrey Heynen ARL Microform Project Coordinator Pingferig Chi Director, Center for Chinese Research Matenals Duane E. Webster Director, Office of Management Studies Jeffrey J. Gatdner Associate; Office of Management Studies M6)600 K. Sitts Information Services Specialist, Office of Management Studies Jane A. Rosenberg Research Specialist, Office of Management Studies Jutta R. Reed-Stott Collection Development Specialist, Offite of Management Studies Patricia K. Swanson Public Services Specialist, Office of MaNigment Studies Sum of the Part8: Sharing the Responsibility for Bibliographic Control Minutes of the 103rd Meeting October 19=20, 1983 Chapel Hill, North Carolina 1984 Association of Research Libraries Washington, D.C. Minutes of the meetings of the ASSOciatiOnof Research Libraries are published semiannually by the AssOciation, 1527 NewHampshire Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036: Price: ARL Members: $15.00 per year,$7:50 an issue NonmemberS: $25.00 per year, $12:50 anissue Editor: Nicola Daval Association of Researcn Libraries Association of Research Libraries _Minutes of the meeting. 1st- Dc.c. 1932 Princeton. N.J. etc:1 I v. 28 cm. Meetings are numbered irregulady: 9th-10th, 12thcalled respectively: 10th-11th. 13th. IN[M :XES: Subject ihciek. 1st-42d: Dec. 1932 -Jan. 1954.1 V. Z673.A84 59-30046 iry of Congress Printed in U.S.A. ISSN 0044-9652 These Minutes are printed on a stable andenduring popes. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page opening 1 THE_SUN1 OE THE PARTS:. STIARIML 3 a . A k INTRODUYTION 3 'HIE BUILDING BLOCKS: ELEMENTS IN A SYSTEM OF DISTRIBUTED RESPONSIBILITY ,\IHrtin Runkle THE KEYSTONE: THE ROLE OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Lucia Rather THE BARRIERS: KNOWING AND FACING TILE PROBLEMS Ilenriette Avram 17 THE BLUEPRINT: A PLAN FOR ACTION David Bishop 25 DISCUSSION 30 BUSINESS MEETING SESSION I 34 SESSION II Report from the Office of Nlanagement Studies 34 Election of New Board fVlemOers 37 Consideration of New Member Library 37 Report from the Council on Library Resources 39 Remarks by C. Lee Jones Remarks by Deanna Marcum Remarks by Warren J. Haas Report of the ART; Executive Director 48 A RI, President's Report 50 Chant_Te of Officers 51 iii A PPEN DICES A. BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS FOR THEPROGRAM SESSION Authority Control and its Pltioe; byIlenriette Avrmn 52 1: _ '); Summary of Responses to A RI, Questionnaire onAccepting Cataloging Copy 58 64 B. Executive Director's Report C.Report from the Catincil on LibraryResources Bibliographic Service Development Program 69 I.office of Alanagenient Studies:. Status ofProjects JuneSepteMbet 1983 74 E: Attendance at the! (33rd MembershipMeeting Member institutions 78 Name Index for Members andStaff 82 Guests 85 F: Officers, Beard, and Committees andTask Forces of the ASSoCiation of Research Libraries 86 91 C;. Membership of the Association of ResearchLibraries iv ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES Minutes of the 103rd Meeting James F; Govan; Presiding The 103rd Membership Meeting of the 'Association of Research Libraries was held at the Carolina Inn; Chapel Hill; North Carolina; on October 19-20; 1983. The program session convened on October 20.After welcoming_guests of the. Association; Mr; Govan turned the meeting over to Program Coordinator Eldred Smith; INTRODUCTION UR. Si \drill (University of Minnesota): The program deals witha cluster of very critical issues for all of us;Itis very much the work of the A RI, Committee on BibliographicControl;Itwas originally proposed by thepastchair ofthat Committee; Jim Govan on the committee's behalf, and ithas been planned and developed by the committee under its current chair.It gives me great pleasure to turn the program over to that individual, a person who I believe is at leastas well qualified as any in our field to moderate a program of this kind: Joe Rosenthal. M It. ROSENTII A L (University of California, Berkeley): Thankyou; Eldred. Thismorning's programisbroughtto you from Lake Woebegone bythe Association's Committee on Bibliographic Control;I want to empnasize that_it is very much a committee effort and;in addition to the speakers who double as committee members; I want to thank Margaret Beckman, Kaye Gapen, Joe Howard; Merle Boylan -a former member of the committee and Nicky Duval and Carol Alandel for their substantial contributions; We expect that the program will be to each of you--to a greater or lesser extentinformative.And; we hope that the presentations will enable you;the members of the Association to assess where we are with respect to the bibliographic control.But; even more, we hope the programwillstimulate youariethe Association as a collective entity to examine the problems and the posSibilities for enhancing bibliographic_control and access to our collections; and to work asan organization toward achieving that objective. All of us involved in this program__ have attempted to make it an integrated presentation. Nevertheless,therewillbe someoverlapandperhaps some redundancy. Because this area is complex, 1 do not think that a modest amount of repetition or covering the same ground is necessarily harmful. We have deliberately encouraged each of the four speakers to address one topic because of its centrality rind because_ of its controversial aspects, that of bibliographic control.And, as background, I hope yOu have read the preprint of lienriette Avrain'_s articlefor the January 1984 issue of the Journal of AcademicLibrarianship entitled, "Authority Control and Its Place"a very deliberately and carefully chosen title. I hope that all of us members of the Association realize that we are grip grappling with one of the great library issues of not only our time but of biblioteehal hLstory.I have been trudging through the swamp of authority control for about twenty years and, as I recall, at the beginning of this century Charles Cutter hada number of well chosen words to say on the subject, except he did not use
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