Metadata Committee March 3, 2008

• Introduction of new member
• NIH Discussion
• Overview of current issues and recent activities
• ETDs. Currently many theses and dissertations are funded by NIH. Do these need to be incorporated into NIH proceses
• Review of the charge and future direction of the committee

Committee charge established.

ETD : abstracts in Acorn record

Recommendation to include abstracts.

• Update on the progress of the Robert Penn Warren project

April 4th. Conference.

Pete: A collection of sound files of interviews that RPW did with various civil rights leaders. 1964-65

Records, Links to sound files.

Biographies of participants.

Abstracts of interviews

Subject heading.

Research for “Who speaks for the Negros” 15 records totally finished. Most sound files came from Yale.

Kentucky: link to interviews on their server Kentucky has transcripts for their interviews.

Conference: “We Speak for Ourselves” James Lawson, Angela Davis.

• Discussion of the recent paper by Thomas Mann on the LC Working Group on Bibliographic Control (http://www.guild2910.org/WorkingGrpResponse2008.pdf)