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Re: sac-class: LCC task force minutes and revised outline

Lori,

The minutes look good to me.

Regarding the section in "Style guidelines for drafting material", I though it might be useful for people to see the formatting guidelines we used for the LCSH workshop. I found them in my notes from years ago, and thought I'd post them here just FYI:

 

 [snip]
  1. Blanks (as in indicator positions) will be represented by _ (underscore symbol)
  2. Font will be arial (which is what is needed for good PDF conversion and display)
  3. Font size will be 12 pt.
  4. All titles and acronyms will be referred to in their full form the first time mentioned in a module and can be abbreviated thereafter in the same module. 
  5. Full forms of titles will be presented in italics, with every significant word capitalized.
  6. Quotation marks will be used:
    1. Following standard conventions, as outlined by the Chicago Manual of Style
    2. When referring to section within a section
    3. When setting off jargon or colloquial expressions
  7. Bullets will be round, solid bullets
  8. Bold will be used for:
    1. Section headers
    2. Emphasis to increase visibility
  9. MARC 21 will be represented with a space between the two elements
  10. MARC coding will be used when appropriate
  11. When MARC coding is not appropriate, headings and subheadings will be represented as:
[main heading] – [free floating]
[heading] – [subdivision]
with two dashes in between the elements and the entire heading in bold
  1. The first line of text will always be flush with the left margin
  2. Indentation will be used to set off large sections of quoted material and examples
  3. 5XX, 6XX, 4XX, etc. will use capital XX’s
  4. Left and right margins will be set at 1.25 inches
 

Also I recall your suggestion during the meeting that we try to keep track of good examples as they come up in our everyday work, for possible use in the workshop. I though that was a good idea.

/ Daniel


At 07:34 PM 7/10/2005, you wrote:
Hi everyone,

I have written up draft minutes from our meeting in Chicago and also revised the draft course outline based on our discussions.  Both documents are available on our web page: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~lrobare/classification.html

Please take a look at the draft minutes and let me know if you have any corrections.  Look over the revised outline as well and see if that reflects the changes we discussed in our meeting.  Once we are OK with the shape of the outline, I'll ask for your preferred sections to work on.

-- Lori

Daniel Lovins
Hebraica Team Leader
Catalog Department
Sterling Memorial Library
Yale University
PO Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520
tel: 203/432-1707
fax: 203/432-7231