BCC2008/SDC/4
MUSIC LIBRARY
ASSOCIATION
Bibliographic
Control Committee
Descriptive Cataloging SUBCOMMITTEE (DCS)
ANNUAL REPORT
July 2007-June 2008
DCS member Robert Freeborn and LC rep Joe Bartl were members of the Playaway Cataloging Joint Task Force, made up of members from MLA and OLAC. Kathy Glennan served as an advisor. This body, established in early 2007, was charged with creating a document that would aid in descriptive cataloging of these devices. The Task Force submitted a draft of its document late in June for consideration by the BCC.
Mark Scharff attended the CC:DA
meetings at ALA Midwinter in
CC:DA meetings continued to focus on the issues surrounding the creation of a new cataloging code to replace AACR2, known as RDA: Resource Description and Access. The Joint Steering Committee (JSC) asks for comments on the various chapters as they become available. During the fiscal year, DCS contributed to the MLA comments on the revised drafts of Chapter 3, “Carrier,” the revised drafts of Chapters 6–7, “Persons, families, and corporate bodies associated with a resource” and “Related resources,” and of Sections 2-4 and 9 (the mixture of designations reflects a drastic reordering of RDA’s contents). DCS also offered comments on a proposal from CILIP (the British counterpart to ALA) to include introductory words in titles at all times, and on how closely RDA should follow guidelines for uniform titles in the draft report of the IFLA Meeting of Experts on an International Cataloging Code (IME ICC); that document differed significantly from current practice. An ad-hoc DCS task force (Jean Harden. Steve Henry, and Mark McKnight) hammered out a definition for “study score” (which roughly covers the concept of “miniature score” in AACR2) on short notice, to be included in the RDA Glossary. Subsequent endorsements by a majority of JSC constituents would indicate that it will be in RDA.
The most significant RDA-related
activity may have been
responding to a document representing the Library of
Congress’s response to the
portions of the RDA draft that deal with formulating preferred access
points
for musical works. In
addition to
critiquing the RDA draft itself, the LC document proposed sweeping
changes in
practice. The MLA
response represented
the negative reaction to some of these changes, and the
DCS will have a very full plate in the next year, as the review period for the full RDA draft will be very short. New recording formats and playback devices will likely trigger new task forces to work out descriptive practices, in the collaborative fashion of the Playaways document.
Submitted by Mark
Scharff
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