Members: Voting: Kathy Glennan
(Chair), Jim Alberts, Beth Flood, Margaret Kaus, Jenn Riley, Mark Scharff, Sue
Vita (LC representative; absent), Mickey Koth (MCB editor); Non-voting: Jay
Weitz (OCLC), Rya Martin (Webmaster/Recording
Secretary)
The Bibliographic Control
Committee (BCC) held two business meetings and presented two programs at the
Chicago conference. One session centered on developments with RDA: Resource
Description and Access and included sample records; presenters included Mark
Scharff, Michelle Koth, Damian Iseminger, Casey Mullin, Daniel Paradis and Steve
Yusko. Attendance at this program exceeded 140. The other program addressed
current topics in music cataloging, which drew about 70 people. For details on
these programs, please see the separate reports published elsewhere in the
MLA Newsletter.
The first BCC
business meeting included a discussion of the work of four BCC-related groups:
the BCC Working Group on Work Records for Music; the MLA/RBMS Joint Committee on
Early Printed Music; the joint MLA/OLAC Playaway Cataloging Joint Task Force and
the MLA/OLAC Joint Task Force on Best Practice Guidelines for
SlotMusic.
Jean Harden
described the methodology and summarized the final report of the BCC Working
Group on Work Records for Music, which completed its work in July 2008. This
short-term group investigated and made recommendations on work records for
music, providing a conceptual document based on the Functional Requirements
for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and Functional Requirements for
Authority Data (FRAD) models. The report serves as a foundation for further
analysis of music issues in FRBR, FRAD, and RDA, especially as cataloging moves
from our current environment to relational or object-oriented
databases. BCC also briefly reviewed the “Areas for further
study” included in the report. For more details, see http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/BCC/BCC-Historical/BCC2008/BCC2008WGWRM1.pdf
Nancy Lorimer
summarized the latest developments with Descriptive Cataloging of Rare
Materials (Music), which will be open for official review in March 2009.
While the RBMS reviewer will look at clarity and consistency, MLA reviewers will
need to assess the content and to provide additional
examples.
BCC reviewed the
activities of the joint MLA/OLAC Playaway Cataloging Joint Task Force, which
completed their best practices guide for use with AACR2; they have nearly
completed their work on the second part of their charge: identifying how to
describe Playaways using RDA. BCC also received an update on the newly formed
MLA/OLAC Joint Task Force on Best Practice Guidelines for SlotMusic, which is
just starting their work.
With the recent
creation of the Metadata Subcommittee, BCC brainstormed ideas about how to focus
the work of this group and how it should interact with other parts of MLA,
including other BCC subcommittees.
At its second
business meeting, BCC reviewed issues arising from the Authorities Subcommittee
(world music issues), the Descriptive Cataloging Subcommittee (RDA-related), the
MARC Formats Subcommittee (possible proposals to modify coding for chorus scores
and proposing additional subfields for bibliographic field 518), and the Subject
Access Subcommittee (genre/form related). For specifics, please see the separate
reports from those subcommittees.
The Committee also brainstormed
about potential programs for 2010 and beyond, including a hands-on preconference
on metadata, and a preconference session on RDA implementation (2011?).
Potential programs for 2010 include FRBR/FRAD, RDA update/demo, and the usual
breaking issues in music cataloging.
Finally, Margaret
Kaus rotated off as chair of the Authorities Subcommittee after four years of
service, with our thanks for her hard work. BCC welcomed Damian Iseminger as the
incoming chair of this
subcommittee.