Members present: Damian Iseminger
(chair), Linda Blair, Paul Cauthen, Neil Hughes,
Mary Huismann, Casey Mullin, Scott Phinney,
Thomas Pease, Tomoko
Shibuya, Michi Hoban
(LC representative)
Visitors present: 23
After approval of the 2009 minutes, chair Damian Iseminger announced that Linda Blair would be rotating off of the Authorities
Subcommittee. Damian thanked Linda for
her participation on the subcommittee and for contributing to many of the
endeavors that BCC has pursued during her 4 years of service.
The chair reviewed the achievements and activities of the
subcommittee for the past year. This
included the completion of the MLA Statement on Authority Control in June 2009,
approved by the MLA Board at their September 2009 meeting, and the BCC response
prepared jointly by the Authorities Subcommittee and the Subject Access
Subcommittee to the IFLA draft document Functional
Requirements for Subject Authority Data.
The chair, as liaison to the ALA ALCTS-CCS/LITA Authority Control
Interest Group (ACIG) and to OLAC’s Cataloging Policy Committee (CAPC), also
reported on the activities of these two groups at ALA Annual 2009 in Chicago, Ill. and ALA
Midwinter 2010 in Boston, Mass.
The remaining hour of the meeting was given over to
discussion of a proposed Musical Works Project for music falling outside the
Western art music canon. BCC, through
the report of the 2008 Working Group on Work Records for Music, had previously
tackled the concept of a “work record” for Western art music, but had
specifically excluded music falling outside that boundary, mostly due to time
and expertise constraints. With the recent
finalization of the text of RDA: Resource
Description and Access and a release date set for the summer of 2010, the
chair felt it would be a good idea to revisit the idea of work records for
music, but this time for music excluded from the 2008 report. After some preliminary discussions with
Authorities Subcommittee members, it was decided that some reading was in order
to find some sort of common understanding about the concept of a musical work
and how it is treated bibliographically.
In order to address this need, the chair assigned to the subcommittee a
group of core readings to be discussed at the Authorities business meeting.
The discussion generated by the assigned readings was
wide-ranging and involved contributions from both subcommittee members and
visitors. Topics discussed included the
various definitions of a work, both at a conceptual and practical level; the
attributes of musical works and their expressions, many of which went beyond
those explicated in the subcommittee readings; the boundaries of musical works
and their expressions; and the suitability of the FRBR concepts of work and
expression for music falling outside the Western canon. While the discussions did not necessarily
lead to consensus on the topics discussed, it did stimulate thought on the ways
in which this project could move forward.
Further discussion of this project among subcommittee members will
continue via email and on the private BCC wiki.
Submitted
by Damian Iseminger,
Chair
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