History

The Slavic Cataloging Manual (SCM) traces its origins to a paper-based manual put together in 1992 by James Weinheimer, at that time a Slavic cataloger at Princeton University. Two years later, the manual was mounted on the Princeton University website.

In 2001, administration of the manual was transferred to the Slavic and East European Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL SEES), which has maintained it ever since. Until recently, the SCM was hosted at Indiana University. During that time, Jacqueline Byrd, Head of Area Studies Cataloging at Indiana University Library (retired), served as webmaster and editor of the Manual.  An archived snapshot of the Indiana-hosted SCM from December 2015 can be found on the Internet Archive here.

The current version, SCM 2.0, was overseen by Larisa Walsh (University of Chicago) and initially designed and published June 1, 2016 by Geoff Husic (University of Kansas).

The video below shows James Weinheimer in November 2016 talking about his work on the original Slavic Cataloging Manual.  The video was used as an introduction for the roundtable held on SCM 2.0 at the ASEEES conference that same month.