BCC98/C/10

Annual Report
Bibliographic Control Committee (BCC)

Voting members: Linda Barnhart, Chair; Matthew Wise (Chair Subcommittee on Descriptive Cataloging); Kathryn Glennan (Chair, Subcommittee on MARC Formats); Michael Colby (Chair, Subcommittee on Subject Access); Mark Scharff (Chair, Authorities Subcommittee); Philip Schreur (Editor, Music Cataloging Bulletin); Susan Vita (Library of Congress representative).

Non-voting members: Jay Weitz (OCLC representative); Christine Zuger (WLN representative); Dennis Davies-Wilson (Recording Secretary).

The four subcommittee chairs represented MLA at ALA meetings in New Orleans in January 1998 and Washington, D.C. in June 1998. Their reports on those meeting have been published in the Music Cataloging Bulletin and are posted on the BCC website.

Two subcommittee chairs completed their four-year appointments and were thanked for their service as they rotated off the BCC following the Boston meeting. Karen Little (University of Louisville) turned the leadership of the Subcommittee on MARC Formats over to Kathryn Glennan (University of Southern California). Harriette Hemmasi (Rutgers University) passed the leadership responsibilities for the Subcommittee on Subject Access over to Michael Colby (University of
California, Davis).

The BCC was very pleased to welcome Dennis Davies-Wilson (University of New Mexico, Los Alamos) to the new position of BCC Recording Secretary. Dennis is also functioning as the BCC webmaster.  Christine Zuger replaced Greta de Groat as the WLN liaison. RLG notified MLA that they are no longer able to send a representative to our meetings, so BCC was very saddened at the resignation of long-time member Ed Glazier from both the BCC and the Subcommittee on MARC Formats.

Mark McKnight has become the new chair of the Music Thesaurus Project Advisory Task Force. The MLA Board approved the appointment of a new Working Group--the Music Thesaurus Project Form/Genre Terminology Working Group--which is led by Harriette Hemmasi. A proposal for a working group to define and support the BCC website is currently under consideration by the MLA Board.

During the past year, the BCC has taken the opportunity to look closely at subcommittee membership, as directed by the MLA Board in their change to the Administrative Handbook. We have agreed to support the guideline of a four year appointment, and have taken steps to track subcommittee appointments more closely to ensure both a stable base of rotating expertise within each subcommittee and that there are regular opportunities for the MLA membership to contribute their talents in service to the organization.

Thanks to the efforts of a BCC working group and its chair, Philip Schreur (Stanford University), BCC has a website that was designed, reviewed, and made public. It is available through the MLA website, linked through "Committees."

BCC oversaw the development and presentation of a plenary session at the Boston meeting, with three previous BCC members as speakers in the session entitled "The Core of the Matter: Bibliographic Access to Music Materials." The three papers will be published in an upcoming issue of Cataloging and Classification Quarterly.

BCC finished its review of the Sheet Music Cataloging Guidelines, and forwarded them on to the Technical Reports Editor for consideration for publication. BCC also reviewed cataloging guidelines for dance materials at the request of the Dance Heritage Coalition. The group completed a review of the MLA Automation Committee's Automation Requirements for Music Materials. Finally, we updated a rather lengthy document entitled "BCC Procedures" which provides a written record of our groundrules, operational policies and roles and responsibilities.

Submitted by Linda Barnhart, BCC Chair

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