BCC2002/C/2

Bibliographic Control Committee

2002 Annual Report

Voting Members: Matthew Wise (Chair), Terry Simpkins (Chair, Authorities Subcommittee),Nancy Lorimer (Chair, Descriptive Cataloging Subcommittee), Paul Cauthen (Chair, MARC Formats Subcommittee), Mark McKnight (Chair, Subject Access Subcommittee), Michelle Koth (Editor, Music Cataloging Bulletin), Susan Vita (Library of Congress Representative)

Non-Voting Members: Jay Weitz (OCLC Representative), Kerri Scannell (Recording Secretary/Webmaster)

The members of the Bibliographic Control Committee have had another busy year. I would like to thank those members who completed their terms of service following the annual meeting, Kathy Glennan (Chair of the Subcommittee on MARC Formats), Michael Colby (Chair of the Subcommittee on Subject Access), and Beth Tice (BCC Recording Secretary/Webmaster). And welcome to their successors, Paul Cauthen, Mark McKnight, and Kerri Scannell, respectively, as well as to Jerry McBride, the new Chair of the Music Thesaurus Project Advisory Task Force. Additionally, the BCC made nine appointment recommendations to fill other subcommittee and task-force vacancies.

The Committee's open meeting in Las Vegas featured a presentation by Brad Eden, Chair of the International Music Metadata Projects Working Group. He outlined the three recommendations contained in the Working Group's final report, namely 1) to form an MLA subcommittee on metadata, 2) to appoint MLA liaisons to the major metadata standards organizations, and 3) to increase efforts toward informing and educating the MLA membership about metadata. The recommendations were strongly supported by those in attendance. Therefore, a proposal was developed and presented to the MLA Board with the intention of creating such a mechanism; however, the proposal was not approved. Thus, the Metadata Working Group was disbanded and MLA's future with regards to metadata is in question.

On a brighter note, the BCC was able to conserve precious meeting time in Las Vegas by condensing its entire schedule of open meetings into five hours, all on the same day. They plan to do the same during the 2003 Austin meeting.

The four subcommittee chairs attended ALA meetings in New Orleans and Atlanta, where they represented the “music perspective” in the broader cataloging community. Written reports of these meetings were published in the Music Cataloging Bulletin and are also available at the BCC website (http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/BCC/bcc.html), along with annual reports from the Library of Congress and OCLC representatives.

Submitted by Matthew Wise

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