Bibliographic Control Committee

Kathy Glennan, Chair

Overview | Membership | Activities | OCLC & LC Reports | ALA Reports | MLA Conference Reports | Historical Documents | External Links

Overview 

• Charge
• How to participate
• BCC website mission statement

Membership 

Voting Members

• Kathy Glennan, Chair
• Subcommittees
  • Authorities Subcommittee, Margaret Kaus, Chair
  • Descriptive Cataloging Subcommittee, Mark Scharff, Chair
  • MARC Formats Subcommittee, Jim Alberts, Chair
  • Subject Access Subcommittee, Beth Flood, Chair
• Music Cataloging Bulletin, Michelle Koth, Editor
• LC Representative, Sue Vita

Non-Voting Members

• OCLC Representative, Jay Weitz
• Recording Secretary, Rya Martin

Activities 

• Conference Presentations
  • RDA: Update, Discussion, and Implementation Plans (MLA, Feb. 2008)
  • New Developments in Form/Genre Access: Where We Are, Where We Are Going, and Where We Want to Be (ALA, June 2007)
  • Past Conference Presentations
• Position Papers
  • MLA Response to 5JSC/LC/12 (Mar. 2008)
  • MLA Response to Guide to Cataloging Playaway Devices (Mar. 2008)
  • Worldwide Review of Functional Requirements of Authority Data (July 2007)
  • Past Position Papers
• Task Force and Working Group Reports
  
  • Metadata Working Group Final Report (Feb. 2008)
  • Metadata Working Group. Metadata Attributes, Refinements, and Recommendations for Their Use (Feb. 2008)
  • OLAC CAPC/MLA SCD Joint Task Force on Best Practice Guidelines for Cataloging Playaways. Guide to Cataloging Playaway Devices Based on AACR2r Chapters 6 and 9 (Jan. 2008, draft)
  • For other task force or working group reports, search Historical Documents by year of report
• Minutes
  • BCC Business Meeting Minutes, 2008 [unapproved]
  • Past BCC Minutes

OCLC and LC Reports - MLA 2008

• News from the Library of Congress
• News from OCLC

ALA Reports

  Midwinter Reports

• CAPC/ACIG, ALA Annual Report (Jan. 2008)
• CC:DA, ALA Annual Report (Jan. 2008)
• MARBI, ALA Annual Report (Jan. 2008)
• SAC, ALA Annual Report (Jan. 2008)

BCC Annual Reports

• Subcommittee on Descriptive Cataloging
• Subcommittee on Subject Access

MLA Conference Reports 

• Conference Report from Chair, MLA-Newport, RI (Feb. 2008)
• MARC Formats Subcommittee, MLA-Newport, RI (Feb. 2008)
• Subject Access Subcommittee, MLA-Newport, RI (Feb. 2008)
• Descriptive Cataloging Subcommittee, MLA-Newport, RI (Feb. 2008)
  

BCC Historical Documents 

External Links

• On the Record: Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (Jan. 2008)
• IFLA FRBR Review Group
• Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD)
• Variations3 (Indiana University Digital Library Program)
• RDA: Resource Description and Access (Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA) 
• OLAC: Online Audiovisual Catalogers
• Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Music) (DCRM(M))

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Last updated April 24, 2008