I would like to remind you about proposal 98-16, which suggests adopting
control characters to indicate non-filing text. Seems to me that this
might impinge on ANSEL standard.


On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Bruce C Johnson wrote:

> To:      MARBI members & representatives
> From:   Bruce Johnson, MARBI Chair
> Subject:NISO Z39.47-1993 Five Year Review
>
>   I have just received the following email from the ALCTS office and it appears to me to
> be within the scope of MARBI's charge.I would like to poll everyone to find out what
> the committee's wish is vis-a-vis the NISO Z39.47-1993 standard.Our options would
> appear to be as follows:
>
> 1.  Do nothing;
> 2.  Vote to reaffirm without a review;
> 3.  Review and vote to either reaffirm or not.
>
>   As you are probably aware, ALA has a vote in reviewing NISO standards and ALA's
> representative to NISO is obligated to consider comments from any ALA group that has
> a stake in the standard.
>
>   Accordingly, please send your comments and preferences to me either on or offlist
> between now and COB Wednesday, September 23rd.Members of the MARC
> Advisory Committee are encouraged to participate in this discussion.
>
> Bruce
>
> From:Carlen Ruschoff, ALA Representative to NISO
> Date: Sept. 21, 1998
> Subject: NISO Z39.47-1993 Five Year Review
>
> NISO Z39.47-1993, Extended Latin Alphabet Coded Character Set for Bibliographic
> Use, also known as ANSEL, is now scheduled for its regular five year review by the
> Voting Members of NISO.
>
> The NISO Office has provided the following as background information:
> "The ANSEL standard was first approved in 1985 and was revised and reissued in
> 1993.The standard establishes both the 7-bit and the 8-bit code values for the computer
> codes for characters needed to fully record bibliographic citations for non-English items.
> This standard is widely used by the information industry for the coding of Latin alphabet
> languages and non-Latin languages transliterated into Latin alphabet characters.The
> ANSEL set is supported in the software of library automation systems and by national
> bibliographic record resource databases.Millions of ANSEL-based MARC
> bibliographic records are currently used on a worldwide basis.The maintenance agency
> for the standard has reported that no changes are required at this time."
>
> At the five year review point a standard can be reaffirmed, revised or withdrawn.The
> NISO Standards Development Committee urges the Voting members to vote to reaffirm.
> Do you agree?I need to hear from you no later than Oct. 20, 1998.  ...
>
> Thank you.
>
> Cc: Sheila Intner, ALCTS President
>    Barbra Higginbotham, LITA President
>    Jo Bell Whitlach, RUSA President
>
> Bruce Chr. Johnson
> Library of Congress
> Cataloging Distribution Service
> Washington, DC 20540-4911 USA
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