Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) At Large & Participants Meetings: 2018 Annual Conference

The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) At Large Meeting and Participants Meeting were held on the afternoon of Sunday, June 24 during the 2018 ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition. The At Large Meeting gave updates for the Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO) and the Subject Authority Cooperative Program (SACO), including an overview of the Library of Congress (LC) SACO review process. The Participants Meeting focused on the evolving role of the authority control into identity management and included member updates and viewpoints of several projects.

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Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) At Large & Participants Meeting: 2018 Midwinter Meeting

The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) At Large Meeting and Participants Meeting at the 2018 ALA Midwinter Meeting were combined into one 90-minute session that took place on Sunday, February 11. Topics for this combined meeting included general updates on the PCC directory and the Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO), an overview of the new PCC Strategic Directions document, and a presentation on updates to Resource Description and Access (RDA) and the RDA Toolkit stemming from the RDA Restructure and Redesign (3R) Project.

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