Annual Report
Bibliographic Control Committee (BCC)
Voting members: Linda Barnhart, Chair; Matthew Wise (Chair, Subcommittee on Descriptive Cataloging from 7-96); Philip Schreur (Chair, Subcommittee on Descriptive Cataloging until 7-96); Karen Little (Chair, Subcommittee on MARC Formats); Harriette Hemmasi (Chair, Subcommittee on Subject Access); Mark Scharff (Chair, Subcommittee on Authorities); Philip Schreur (Music Cataloging Bulletin editor from 9-96); Catherine Gerhart (Music Cataloging Bulletin editor until 9-96); Susan Vita (Library of Congress representative).
Non-voting members: Greta de Groat (WLN representative); Ed Glazier (RLG representative); Jay Weitz (OCLC representative)
A budget for the Bibliographic Control Committee for 1996-97 of $4,800 was adopted by the MLA Board. This budget primarily supports the liaison activities with ALA cataloging policy-making bodies.
The four subcommittee chairs represented MLA at ALA meetings in San Antonio in January 1996 and in New York City in July 1996. Their reports of those meetings have been made public; a summary of the major issues is given in the individual subcommittee annual reports which follow here.
In addition to subcommittee activities, the BCC oversees the progress of ad hoc working groups. This past year saw the conclusion of the Working Group on Music Video Cataloging; we are particularly pleased that the final report of that working group has been published in the MLA Technical Report series. In addition, the Sheet Music Cataloging Guidelines Working Group has almost finished their charge, and we expect that those guidelines will begin the publication process following the upcoming meeting in New Orleans. The Working Group on Types of Composition has completed its update of its list of terms, and plans to turn its document over to the Authorities Subcommittee for maintenance and to be put up as a website. Finally, the Working Group on Terminology in Twentieth Century Music is working to complete its charge by the New Orleans meeting; see its report below for more details.
There is a new subgroup reporting to the BCC this year--the Music Thesaurus Project Advisory Task Force. This group will provide support for the ongoing needs of this very important project.
Other matters that the BCC has attended to since the Seattle meeting include responding to a request by the MLA Board for more information about the work of the liaisons and the preparation of an article for the MLA Newsletter about the BCC. We are working on a response to IFLA on a document entitled "Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records," and have begun planning for a BCC website.
Submitted by Linda Barnhart, BCC Chair
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