BCC2004/SAS/4

SUBJECT ACCESS SUBCOMMITTEE
ANNUAL REPORT 2004

Members: Mark McKnight (Chair), Keith Chapman, Elizabeth Flood, Ray Heigemeier, Neil Hughes, Mary Huismann, Geraldine Ostrove (LC Representative), Wendy Sistrunk, Patricia Thomson.

At the MLA Annual Conference in February, the Subject Access Subcommittee co-sponsored, with the MLA Education Committee, two workshops on Library of Congress Subject Headings for Music. One session was offered Wednesday, February 11 as a pre-conference session at the Library of Congress and the second was held at the conference hotel as a post-conference event on Sunday February 15. Mark McKnight served as facilitator for the workshops, which were led by two members of the Library of Congress Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Lynn El-Hoshy and MLA member Geraldine Ostrove, and by MLA member Brad Young from the University of Pennsylvania. Approximately 90 persons registered for the two events. We received very positive responses from the participants and hope to offer similar such workshops in the future. In addition, during its open meeting of the conference the subcommittee featured a presentation by John N. Mitchell of the Library of Congress Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) on the Subject Authority Cooperative Program (SACO). Mr. Mitchell’s PowerPoint presentation is available on the SACO Web site at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/saco/SACO-MLA_2004_files/frame.htm

As an MLA Liaison, subcommittee chair, Mark McKnight, attended meetings of the ALA/ALCTS Subject Analysis Committee at the ALA Annual Conference in Orlando in June.

Submitted by Mark McKnight

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