WESS Cataloging Discussion Group: agenda
WESS CATALOGING DISCUSSION GROUP MEETING
Saturday 20 January 2007 10:30 AM-12:30 PM
Fairmont Olympic Hotel, Council Room
I. Introductions Including any brief announcements (open positions, special projects, etc.)
II. Report on German-North American Resources Partnership (GNARP)-Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt conference, held in Frankfurt 6-7 October 2006: “The World According to GNARP: Prospects for Transatlantic Library Partnership in the Digital Age”
Charles Croissant, St. Louis University, will report on the Frankfurt presentation “Comparing Cataloging Cultures in the US and Germany = Komparatistik der Katalogkulturen in USA und Deutschland.”
(This presentation was made jointly in Frankfurt by Charles Croissant and Gudrun Henze, die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.)
III. Discussion: Cataloguing cultures on both sides of the Atlantic
• What general differences have you experienced or learned of between approaches to cataloguing in Europe and in North America?
• Are there any things that North American cataloguers might learn from approaches in Europe?
• Are there any opportunities for further international exchanges of ideas and information at an institutional or cataloguer level, not just at the formal level of national libraries or IFLA?
IV. Ideas for WESS Cataloging Discussion Group meeting at ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC
V. Other, as may arise