MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Bibliographic Control Committee
Metadata SUBCOMMITTEE
ANNUAL REPORT
July 2008-June 2009 

Members: Jenn Riley, chair (appointed 2008; five-year term); Linda Barnhart (2009; two-year term), Keith Chapman (2009; four-year term), Eric Harbeson (2009; four-year term), Caitlin Hunter (2009; four-year term), Karen Lund (LC Representative), James Mason (2009; two-year term), Renée McBride (2009; two-year term), Felicia Piscitelli (2009; two-year term), Terry Simpkins (2009; four-year term), Rebecca Thompson (2009; two-year term).

The BCC Metadata Subcommittee came into existence this year, with Jenn Riley of Indiana University appointed as Chair in October 2008, and nine members plus a Library of Congress representative appointed in February 2009. Once this new BCC subcommittee was created, the chair worked to establish a new liaison relationship between MLA and the ALCTS Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group, which became effective November 2008. While the subcommittee was formed too late to hold a formal business meeting at the MLA 2009 Annual Meeting in Chicago, several subcommittee members in attendance met during a coffee break to begin the process of brainstorming subcommittee priorities in support of our charge. A subcommittee listserv hosted at Indiana University and the BCC wiki are being used to further develop and refine these ideas. The subcommittee looks forward to beginning its work in earnest in the second half of 2009. We expect our work will balance information sharing/documentation and innovation, and balance focus on descriptive metadata with types of metadata that serve other purposes such as online delivery and digital preservation.

Submitted by Jenn Riley