I favor voting to reaffirm without a review.


Gary L. Smith
Senior Consulting Systems Analyst
Database & Offline Products Development
OCLC
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce C Johnson [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 11:19
> To:   Multiple recipients of list USMARC
> Subject:      NISO Z39.47-1993 Five Year Review
>
> 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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