The second meeting, on Tuesday morning, opened with those liaison reports that were not submitted electronically beforehand. There are only a few pieces of news that will not likely be reported to MLA elsewhere. The ALCTS Networked Resources & Metadata Committee Standards Subcommittee has completed and electronically published Standardized handling of digital resources: an annotated bibliography, intended to be a resource for those who collect, catalog, and provide access to digital resources (URL: http://www.ala.org/alcts/publications/netresources/bib_main.html ). The PDLR (Producer/Distributor-Library Relations) Subcommittee has been stymied in its efforts to issue its "Are you media-savvy" brochures for use by publishers and distributors (including works for sound recordings and videos) by some of the ALA publications policies mentioned above.

The main event was a discussion of the draft of the 2^nd edition of Wendy White-Henson’s Archival moving image materials : a cataloging manual (familiarly known as AMIM), prepared under the auspices of the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, and a response to the draft from the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA). Arlene Balkansky (LC M/B/RS) and Jane Johnson (UCLA Film and Television Archive) provided a "point/counterpoint" presentation of the substantial differences in the draft and response, the latter being so extensive as to constitute a rewriting of much of the manual and adding new chapters. The draft document itself can be seen by going to http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/amimcovr.html ; there is a link at that site to the response, http://www.amianet.org/Introduc.html . Though these are both long documents, anyone who works with archival moving-image materials (or even standard videos) can benefit from taking a look.

In the following discussion, committee members focused on how the draft defined "parallel title" to include differing titles in the same language for the same work, suggesting that using the free-text options of the 246 field might be a better way to identify these sorts of titles. The draft also calls for added entries in bibliographic records for varying forms of personal names and of series titles; committee members thought that these needs would be better served by cross-references in authority records, and Balkansky expected that future versions of the draft would recommend that solution. Some members offered criticism of the direction in the AMIM draft to begin all supplied titles with form/genre terms; they envisioned indexes where screen after screen displayed identical titles. (Think of "Songs. Selections" under Schubert as a rough equivalent, though not amenable to the solution proposed below). They saw form/genre headings (MARC field 655) as being a better collocation device, and Balkansky said that this directive would probably be re-examined. The AMIA response is far more restrictive in allowing main entry under corporate bodies; offered examples such as head-shot tapings of conferences and musical performances, Jane Johnson acknowledged their legitimacy, but reaffirmed the desire to have a "tight" definition. The discussion was vigorous, and both Balkansky and Johnson seemed to take away much for further study. [In a later development, LC has extended the comment period on the document to April 9]. The second edition of AMIM will be part of LC’s Cataloger’s Desktop CD-ROM product.