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Subcommittee on Authorities
2000 Annual Report
Members: Mark Scharff (Chair), Joe Bartl (LC liaison),
Anita Breckbill, Ann Churukian, Robert
The Authorities Subcommittee continued
to focus on maintenance of the Types of Composition document, using e-mail discussions and
spending a bit of "face time" in Louisville to work on it. We are still weighing program ideas for Las Vegas,
perhaps as part of a plenary session. Authorities
was represented in the Bibliographic Control Committee's "metadata marathon" by
Rebecca Dean (OCLC), who spoke on the promises and pitfalls of authority control in the
various metadata schemes, particularly the Dublin Core, and who described a research
project at OCLC focusing on deconstructing and reconstructing LC subject headings during
"crosswalking" between MARC and Dublin Core.
The chair attended the Midwinter and
Annual meetings of the American Library Association as a liaison to the LITA/ALCTS
Authority Control in the Online Environment Interest Group (ACIG) and BCC liaison to the
ALCTS-Media Resources Committee. At the
Annual meeting, he was elected to the position of ad hoc chair, uniform titles, within
ACIG.
The subcommittee bid adieu to Rebecca
Dean, Mickey Koth, and Suzanne Mudge after the Louisville meeting, and welcomed Anita
Breckbill, Robert Freeborn, and Edith Tibbets as new members. As the physical custodian of the Types document,
Mickey continues involvement with subcommittee activities.
Submitted by Mark Scharff
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