Subcommittee on MARC Formats
Annual Report, 1995

1. NAME OF COMMITTEE/SUBCOMMITTEE:

Subcommittee on MARC Formats

2. MEMBERS OF COMMITTEE/SUBCOMMITTEE:

Karen R. Little, chair; Ann Caldwell; Greta de Groat; Ian Fairclough; Ed Glazier; Kathryn P. Glennan; David Thomas; Jay Weitz; Stephen Yusko

3. CHARGE OF COMMITTEE/SUBCOMMITTEE:

To formulate MLA policy on all matters related to the MARC Formats for Bibliographic Data and all other official USMARC formats. The chair serves as MLA liaison to MARBI, the ALA RTSD/RITA/RASD Representation in Machine Readable Form of Bibliographic Information Committee.

4. SUMMARY OF YEAR'S ACTIVITIES:

At the February 1995 MARBI meeting, a discussion paper was presented that explored the need to represent form of composition and genre for music as coded values and whether new codes should be added for forms/genres not currently assigned specific codes. After consultation with the MLA membership, the Subcommittee recommended that the current code list be retained in its current form.

At the June 1995 MARBI meeting, further developments in the use of the field link and sequence number, first proposed by the music library community in 1994, were discussed. In addition, a proposal related specifically to the encoding of digital maps, has implications for the encoding of digitally produced "print" music.

The Subcommittee continued to monitor these and other MARBI activities. In addition, the following issues were brought to the Subcommittee for exploration: the use of the 028 versus the 037 field; the clarification of the use of the 045 for musical presentations on video; and the review of the potential for the use of the field linking sequence for music materials. In addition, Kathy Glennan presented an address on the final phase of format integration at the 1995 MLA meeting in Atlanta.

5. SUBMITTED BY:

Karen Little, Chair, Subcommittee on MARC Formats

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