Serials Section Union List of Serials Committee

1/21/06, 8-10 am

Chairperson: Paul Moeller

Members Present:Felicity A. Dykas, Myrtle Myers, Paul Moeller

Members Absent: Cathy Kellum, Michael L. Bradford

Report of Business

Myrtle Myers of OCLC provided the Committee with an update on OCLC's retirement of Passport for Union List and the enhancement of Connexion browser to support local holdings maintenance. Included in the discussion were OCLC's use of MARC 21 Format for Holdings (including setting the defaults for the 008 byte 20 (Lending Policy) and byte 21 (Reproduction Policy) for serial records as 'won't lend' but 'will copy'), the conversion of OCLCs holdings records, MFHD file output, printable files of holdings output, and the import/export of holdings by libraries. This update was followed by a discussion of the role the Committee should play in promoting the efficient and effective use of union listing.

The Committee decided to develop a resource page featuring an explanation of the importance of union listing, a description of an ideal union listing world, and a links library of resources for and about union listing and MARC 21 Format for Holdings. The Committee also considered how its efforts could be refocused and discussed the recruitment of new members. These efforts all support ALCTS' efforts to promote the development and use of both standards and best practices.