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Bibliographic Control Committee

Report from the New York City meeting, February 2001

The open meeting of the Bibliographic Control Committee was held on Friday, February 23 with over 100 conferees in attendance.  Following a call for applications from those interested in subcommittee membership, the meeting proceeded with a report from Susan Vita (Library of Congress) on the Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium.  Vita described the format of the conference, which included several discussion paper presentations, resulting responses, focus group sessions, and post-conference commentary via an online discussion list.  Particularly highlighted was the work of the eleven topical discussion groups.  LC intends to publish a compilation of the proceedings later this year.  Further information about the conference may be found at lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/ conference.html.

The next presentation was a report from Brad Eden (University of Nevada at Las Vegas), chair of the International Music Metadata Projects Working Group.  Despite the fact that this group was only appointed in late-November, they have made great headway in completing their charge, which is to identify music metadata projects, monitor their development, and recommend ways in which music librarians could be better informed about and involved in the development of such projects.  Over forty projects have been identified and examined so far.  The group plans to complete their work by June 2001 and provide a final report with recommendations at the Las Vegas meeting.

And the open meeting ended with Sherry Vellucci (St. John's University) reporting on the work of the Dublin Core "Relations" Element "Type" Qualifier Working Group, which she chairs.  Although the group has gotten off to a slow start, having met only once, they expect to benefit greatly from the output of the International Projects group.  They are charged with identifying bibliographic relationships among digital music materials (i.e., equivalence, whole/part, derivative, accompanying, sequential, descriptive, and shared characteristics), comparing these relationships to those of analog materials, and evaluating the ability of the Dublin Core elements and qualifiers set to represent such relationships.

The Music Thesaurus Project Form/Genre Terminology Working Group, chaired by Harriette Hemmasi (Indiana University), is again making progress toward completing their charge, which is to identify, research, and categorize form/genre terms for inclusion in the Music Thesaurus.  They expect to complete their work within the next year, at which point the next phase of the project will be started by the MTP Advisory Task Force, chaired by Mark McKnight (University of North Texas).

The four BCC liaisons attended ALA meetings in Chicago and Washington, providing the music cataloging community's perspective on various issues to a broader audience.  Written reports of these meetings, including those of ACIG, MRC, CC:DA, MARBI, and SAC, are available on the BCC website at www.musiclibraryassoc.org/BCC/bcc.html, along with annual reports from the Library of Congress and OCLC representatives.

Finally, BCC personnel changes include Mark Scharff (Washington University, St. Louis), who  finishes his five-year term as Chair of the Authorities Subcommittee, to be replaced by Terry Simpkins (Middlebury College), and Dennis Davies-Wilson (University of New Mexico, Los Alamos), who finishes a stellar term as Recording Secretary and Webmaster, to be replaced by Beth Elene Tice (Baylor University).  Mickey Koth (Yale University) steps in as MCB Editor and ex officio member of BCC, replacing Phil Schreur (formerly of Stanford University) and Nancy Lorimer (Stanford University), who served as interim editor.

Submitted by Matthew Wise, BCC Chair

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