Program for Cooperative Cataloging: The Indiana Experience

Abstract

This article provides a historical overview of Indiana University Libraries’ participation in all four components of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC). Additional topics include the rationale behind Indiana's commitment to the Program and the benefits derived from PCC membership. The article concludes that PCC participants are uniquely positioned to play an effective role in meeting the challenges facing today's academic libraries.

KEYWORDS:

• Program for Cooperative Cataloging
• PCC
• CONSER
• BIBCO
• SACO
• NACO

Notes

1. Odette F. Shepherd served as Head of the Serials Department, Indiana University Libraries, from 1967 until her retirement in 1998.

2. Program for Cooperative Cataloging, “LC Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate, Program for Cooperative Cataloging Statistics—NACO/BIBCO/CONSER/SACO, Annual Compilation FY2007 (October 1, 2006–Sept. 30, 2007).” http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/stats/totals07ye.pdf (accessed September 26, 2009).

3. Martin D. Joachim served as Head of the Cataloging Department from November 14, 1977–September 1988 and then as Principal Cataloger until his retirement in December 2002.

4. Cataloging Department Annual Report, 1983–1984 (Bloomington: Indiana University Libraries, July 19, 1984), 5.

5. Ibid.

. Ibid., 4.

7. “Indiana University Inaugurates OCLC's LSP link with the Library of Congress,” OCLC Newsletter, no. 172 (1988): 4.

8. Michael Kaplan, “National Cooperative Programs,” in Planning and Implementing Technical Services Workstations, ed. Michael Kaplan (Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1997), 55.

9. Mechael D. Gago, “Indiana University to Celebrate 12th Year as CONSER Participant,” CONSER 20, no. 3 (1991): 3.

10. Cataloging Department Annual Report 1988/89 (Bloomington: Indiana University Libraries, 1989), 1–2.

11. Cataloging Department Annual Report, 1984/85 (Bloomington: Indiana University Libraries, 1985), 3.

12. Beacher Wiggins, “The National Coordinated Cataloging Program,” in Cooperative Cataloging: Past, Present, and Future, ed. Barry B. Baker (New York: Haworth Press, Inc., 1993), 165.

13. Cataloging Department Annual Report 1988/89, 3–4.

14. Cataloging Department Annual Report 1989/90 (Bloomington: Indiana University Libraries, 1990), 2.

15. IO Catalog Management Dept. 1997/98 Annual Report (Bloomington: Indiana University Libraries, August 11, 1998), 2.

16. BIBCO Annual Report FY2009 (Bloomington: Indiana University Libraries, 2009), 1.

17. Winston Tabb, “The Program for Cooperative Cataloging: Mission, Goals, and Potential for International Cooperation.” Paper presented at the Cataloging Section Open Program, IFLA Conference, Beijing, China, August 27, 1996. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/archive/tabbpaper.html (accessed September 26, 2009).

18. Program for Cooperative Cataloging, “Benefits of PCC Membership.” http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/2001/pcc.html (accessed September 26, 2009).

19. Program for Cooperative Cataloging, “PCC Values Statement.” http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/values.html (accessed September 26, 2009).

20. Mark R. Watson, “Top Five Reasons Why Library Administrators Should Support Participation in the Program for Cooperative Cataloging.” http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/topfive.html (accessed September 26, 2009).

21. Program for Cooperative Cataloging, “PCC Mission Statement, 2005.” http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/MissionStatement.html (accessed September 26, 2009).

22. Beacher J. Wiggins, “Library of Congress Benefits from BIBCO,” RLG Focus no. 47 (2000). http://www.worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070503/viewer/file872.html (accessed September 26, 2009).

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24. Library of Congress catalogers ceased creating or updating series authority records effective June 1, 2006. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/series.html (accessed September 26, 2009).

25. Access Level Record for Serials Working Group Final Report (July 24, 2006), 1. http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/pdf/alr/printer-version.pdf (accessed September 26, 2009).

26. Indiana University 2009 CONSER Report (Bloomington: Indiana University Libraries, September 25, 2009), 1.

27. Ibid.

28. Sarah E. Thomas, “Quality in Bibliographic Control—History and Future of Cataloging in Libraries; Perspectives on Quality in Libraries,” Library Trends 44, no. 3 (1996). http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1387/is_n3_v44/ai_18015820/?tag=content;col1

29. Martin D. Joachim, “From Lost Luggage to the Library of Congress: Joseph H. Howard's Contributions to Librarianship,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 25, no. 2–3 (1998): 177.

30. Jean Hirons and Carol Hixson, “White Paper on PCC Role in Continuing Education for Catalogers.” Prepared for PCC Policy Committee Discussion (November 2001). http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/whitepapertrng.html#2 (accessed September 26, 2009).

31. Robert Wolven, “In Search of a New Model,” Library Journal netConnect no. 133 (2008): 6. http://bert.lib.indiana.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=28333172&site=ehost-live (accessed September 26, 2009).

32. Ibid., 9.