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June 2007 ISSN: 0195-4857 TECHNICAL SERVICES LAW LIBRARIAN Volume 32 No. 4 http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/tsll/ June 2007 ISSN: 095-4857 INSIDE: Collection Development From the Officers Rare Book School — What’s That? OBS-SIS ..................................... 7 Margaret K. Maes Richard Vaughan TS-SIS ........................................ 3 University of St. Thomas-Minneapolis Indiana University-Bloomington Articles Rare Book School ...................... Introduction Reports Several times a year librarians, archivists, and collectors from around the country Series Task Group .................... 29 and the world gather in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains to attend the Rare Book Columns School held at the University of Virginia. Now in its 25th year, Rare Book School Acquisitions ............................. 0 (RBS) is widely known among “book people” of all types, but perhaps not as well Classification ............................ 3 known to law librarians generally. The authors of this article hope to rectify that Preservation .............................. 5 by reporting on their experiences at the 2006 school, where they were enrolled in Private Law Libraries ............... 6 the course “Collecting the History of Anglo-American Law.” OCLC/RLIN ............................ 7 Serial Issues ............................. 8 The school, established at Columbia University in 983 (with a move to Serials ....................................... 20 Charlottesville, Virginia in 992), is largely the brainchild of Professor Terry Subject Headings ..................... 22 Belanger. In fact, Belanger was awarded a McArthur Foundation “Genius” award TechScans ................................ 24 in 2005 for his RBS work. RBS is an independent non-profit educational institute offering more than 30 week-long classes on the history of books, printing, binding, News & Announcements: libraries and archives, and related subjects. The majority of courses are held in Alphabet Soup Reception .......... 9 Charlottesville, but the school has expanded and now offers classes in New York Acquisitions Events ................. City, Baltimore, and Washington, DC. While we attended a Charlottesville class Program Announcement ........... 2 specifically geared toward legal materials, librarians should be aware that a wide TS-SIS Educational Grants ...... 4 variety of courses are offered. Here is a brief list illustrating the range of topics New Roundtable ....................... 9 covered: New Catalogers Roundtable .... 2 Serials Committee .................... 2 • Introduction to the History of Bookbinding Subject cataloging .................... 23 • The History of the Book in America 2008 AALL Programs .............. 34 • Introduction to Descriptive Bibliography Talk About Hot! ....................... 34 • Introduction to the History and Preservation of Maps Rare Book Cataloging .............. 35 • Introduction to the History of Illustration • History of European and American Papermaking Annual Meeting Extras: • Introduction to Special Collections Librarianship TS-SIS Events .......................... 30 • Introduction to Illuminated Manuscripts OBS-SIS Events ....................... 32 • Introduction to the History of Typography From the Editor • Rare Book Cataloging TSLL Column News .................. 9 Each class is taught by a team of knowledgeable and highly regarded scholars or Continued on page 35 A Publication of the Technical Services Special Interest Section and the Online Bibliographic Services Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries Technical Services Law Librarian, June 2007 Page TSLL Staff 2006-2007 Officers, Committee Chairs, and Representatives Editor-in-Chief: OBS-SIS TS-SIS Brian Striman University of Nebraska Chair: Chair: Susan Goldner Rhonda K. Lawrence Associate Editor: University of Arkansas at Little UCLA School of Law Cindy May University of Wisconsin Rock Vice Chair/Chair-Elect: Layout & Design: Vice Chair/Chair-Elect: Alan Keely Julie R. Stauffer Andrea Rabbia Wake Forest University University of Chicago Syracuse University Secretary/Treasurer: Web Manager: Secretary/Treasurer: Sima Mirkin Martin E. Wisneski American University Washburn University Kathy Faust Northwestern School of Law Members-at-Large: Contributing Editors: Acquisitions: Members-at-Large: Janice Anderson (2005-2007) Kevin Butterfield Caitlin Robinson (interim until Georgetown University Classification: (July 2007) Marie Elizabeth Whited (2006- Marie Whited - interim Corinne Jacox (2006-2008) 2008), Library of Congress Collection Development: Margaret Maes Creighton University Acquisitions Committee: Description & Entry: Education Committee: Ajay Bloomstone vacant Susan Goldner Louisiana State University The Internet: vacant University of Arkansas at Little Awards Committee: Management: Rock Ellen McGrath Caitlin Robinson Local Systems Committee: University at Buffalo (SUNY) MARC Remarks: Bylaws Committee: George Prager Mary Jane Kelsey OCLC/RLIN: Yale University Karen Douglas Duke University Pam Deemer Nominating Committee: Preservation: Kevin Butterfield Cataloging & Classification Committee: Sally Wambold Jean M. Pajerek Private Law Libraries: College of William and Mary Cornell University Donna Rosinski-Kauz OCLC/RLIN Committee: Research and Publications: Pam Deemer (cochair) Education Committee: vacant Rhonda K. Lawrence Serials: Emory University Margaret McDonald Ming Lu (cochair) UCLC Law School Christina Tarr Los Angeles County Law Library Membership Committee: Serial Issues: Jeffrey T. Bowen (2006-2007) Richard Paone Special Committee on Record Florida International University Subject Headings: Sharing: Aaron Kuperman Pat Callahan Nominating Committee: TechScans: University of Pennsylvania Regina T. Wallen Corinne Jacox & contributing Stanford University authors Web Advisory Committee: Shannon Burchard Preservation Committee: Editorial Board SIS Representatives OBS-SIS: University of San Francisco Patricia K. Turpening Hollie C. White (2005-2007) Booklover Consulting Arizona State University Serials Committee: Janet McKinney (2006-2008) Carol Avery Nicholson Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City University of North Carolina TS-SIS: OBS and TS-SIS Representatives Ismael Gullon (2005-2007) ALA Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee (MARBI) Mercer University Jason A. Eiseman (2006-2008) George Prager, New York University Law Library (2005-2007) Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, ALA Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA) Portland Kathy Winzer, Stanford University Law Library (2006-2007) ALA Subject Analysis Committee (SAC) Yael Mandelstam, Fordham University Law Library (2005-2008) OBS/TS Joint Research Grant Committee OBS-SIS: Caitlin Robinson, University of Iowa TS-SIS: Nancy M. Poehlmann, Notre Dame Page 2 Technical Services Law Librarian, Vol. 32, No. 4 From the Chair echnical Services TSpecial Interest Section What Has the TS-SIS Chair Done? In my last column I summarized the activities of the other officers and members of the TS-SIS Board. But what about the chair? As I have commented to the Board, sometimes I felt like a traffic cop—making sure that the work of various committees was flowing smoothly, and I directed questions and issues to the right persons to resolve. This has been a busy year. As TS-SIS chair, I was also the chair of the Education Committee, comprising most of the members of the Board. For several months, all of us were heavily involved in program planning for the 2007 AALL Annual Meeting. Our reward is a record number of TS-SIS programs and meetings in New Orleans—more details follow. Throughout the year the Board and I continued to address annual meeting issues—scheduling, budgeting, and publicity. After a little bit of a breather, Jean Pajerek, Chair of the Cataloging and Classification Standing Committee, and I established several working groups within that Standing Committee. Following the 2006 AALL Annual Meeting and the reaction of TS-SIS members to the LC series decision last June, the Series Task Group, chaired by Robert Rendall of Columbia, was constituted. The Task Force recommended that within the law cataloging community we continue to provide controlled access to series titles in cataloging records. The TS-SIS Board approved the Task Group’s recommendation; their complete position paper on series treatment is published within this issue of TSLL, and are also available on our TS-SIS website. We were also instrumental in lobbying for a TS-SIS member, Richard Amelung, to serve as the AALL representative on the LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. Last fall we also created two new permanent advisory working groups to address the growing number of descriptive and subject cataloging issues. The Descriptive Cataloging Policy Advisory Working Group, chaired by Ann Sitkin of Harvard Law Library, has reviewed several drafts of RDA and provided invaluable assistance to our AALL CC: DA liaison, Kathy Winzer. The Classification and Subject Cataloging Policy Advisory Working Group, also chaired by a very busy Robert Rendall (until he stepped down to take a new serial cataloging position in the general Columbia library), examined law genre headings and most recently reviewed an LC proposed draft for changes to the KF form table. Jean and I also created a Task Group on Standards for Vendor-Supplied Bibliographic Records, chaired by Terri Saye, University of North Carolina. The Task Group was charged to develop guidelines for vendors to assist them in following PCC’s MARC
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