The Collections Advisory Council is beginning a review process to distribute some additional one time funds to collection managers for purchase of big ticket items or other one time purchase needs. The CAC will also be taking up the issue of cataloging web sites and possible criteria at a future meeting. The Pinyin Conversion Working Group has submitted its interim report and things are beginning to happen on this project. Oct. 1 was the first Day One nationally for the move from Wades-Giles to Pinyin for Chinese romanization.
Good progress continues to be made in project areas within technical services.
The individual dept. Finally, work continues to organize and discard material in the precat area so that it will be easier to know what is there and its status. Nick Felt has taken the lead on this project working with members of various TS Depts as well as collection managers.