The bib-notification back file has been loaded. V. Roumani-Denn announced that Randal Brandt, of the Water Resources Center Archive, will be helping to reduce the backlog of Bancroft map cataloging, estimated at 4,000 maps. P. Russell added that Bancroft will be providing collection-level records for materials in the Music Library. Conkin and Scheiman were thanked for their work in reviewing these manuals with a goal of mounting appropriate sections of each on the Library web. L. Leighton will send a copy of the report to Jeanne Fong, to seek PSAG's input on the proposal.
Libraries have several options of how to proceed.
The Australian National Library is building parallel databases with records in both Wade-Giles and Pinyin using an electronic conversion program that translates from one system to the other. RLIN will be converting all the records in its database to Pinyin. While this conversion will be done without charge, libraries will be charged for a snapshot tape if they want then to convert their local catalogs. OCLC is also planning to convert to Pinyin. UCB's decision on implementation needs to be made by the year 2000.