CCAM Membership Descriptions

Specialist

The role of a specialist is to represent an area studies' cataloging community by:

keeping the members of the area studies community informed of activities relating to descriptive and subject cataloging;
consulting members of the area studies community on relevant issues that come before CC:AAM;
contributing the specialist's knowledge and opinions, as well as that of the represented community, to CC:AAM discussions;
reporting cataloging activities of the area studies community to CC:AAM; and
participating in CC:AAM Task Forces.

List of specialists and related area studies organizations:

Africa Specialist
Africana Librarians Council (ALC), Cataloging Committee

East Asia Specialist
Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL), Committee on Technical Processing

Middle East Specialist
Middle East Librarians Association (MELA)

South Asia specialist
Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation (CONSALD)

Southeast Asia specialist
Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia (CORMOSEA), Subcommittee on Technical Processes

The role of a generalist is to provide a perspective from the non-specialist cataloging community by:

commenting, when appropriate, upon the implications for the general cataloging community of cataloging issues related to Asian and African materials;
contributing the generalist's knowledge and opinions to CC:AAM discussions; and,
participating in CC:AAM Task Forces.