Members:
Voting: Kathy Glennan (Chair), Bruce Evans (substituting for Jim Alberts), Beth
Iseminger, Damian Iseminger, Jenn Riley, Mark Scharff, Sue Vita (LC
representative), Mickey Koth (MCB editor – absent); Non-voting: Jay Weitz
(OCLC), Rya Martin (Webmaster/Recording Secretary – absent)
The Bibliographic Control
Committee (BCC) held two business meetings and sponsored four programs at the Chicago conference: FRBR, FRAD, and Music: Theory and Practice; Workflow
Design for Metadata Creation; BCC
Town Hall (current topics
in cataloging); and RDA: Approaching Implementation. All of the program
sessions were well attended. For details on these programs, please see the separate reports
published elsewhere in the MLA Newsletter.
The BCC business meetings
included subcommittee and task force updates, as well as new topics.
The committee discussed issues
relating to RDA, including the U.S.
National Libraries RDA test plan timeline and partner expectations, and the
implications for planning RDA-related programming for the MLA Philadelphia
meeting. Since the timing of an announcement about U.S. implementation of RDA will be
unknown by February next year, BCC should consider alterative RDA training
options. BCC also needs to create a framework for cross-subcommittee work on
possible proposals to revise RDA.
BCC-related
education and training opportunities arise in addition to those related to RDA.
We will work with the Education Committee in exploring opportunities to provide
content within MLA. Possibilities include pre-conferences, developing workshops
as part of the Educational Outreach Program, online training and webinars, and
partnering with outside organizations such as MOUG and OLAC.
Damian Iseminger led a discussion about the
possibility of developing guidelines for expression records, following the
basic model of the 2008 BCC Working Group on Work Records for Music. BCC
members had differing opinions on this issue, recognizing that the cataloging
landscape has changed since the previous working group’s final report. BCC will
explore the issues further in the next few months and will likely charge an
internal task force to work on the issues related to expression records.
We welcomed two members of the RBMS/MLA Joint
Committee on Early Printed Music (Jain Fletcher and Nancy Lorimer) to discuss
the latest draft of Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Music) and
how to have BCC provide the best possible feedback. The Joint Committee has
made a public wiki available for comments at http://dcrmmreview.pbworks.com/; BCC
will collect internal comments separately and prepare a formal report by the
end of May.
Beth
Iseminger brought BCC up-to-date with developments on the music genre/form
project. The MLA-BCC Genre/Form Task Force will take the initial 1,000 terms
identified by the task force and the Library of Congress and start to provide a
hierarchical structure. They will also complete their analysis of genre/form
and medium of performance terms included in the Garland Encyclopedia of
World Music and Grove Music Online but missing from LCSH. The task
force will also explore potential changes needed in the MARC Formats, working
with that Subcommittee as appropriate.
BCC
brainstormed about potential programs for 2011 and beyond, including programs
relating to sheet music, RDA, genre/form, digital projects, and cataloging
issues related to world and popular music.
Finally, Jim Alberts rotated off as chair of the
MARC Formats Subcommittee and Beth Iseminger rotated off as chair of the
Subject Access Subcommittee, each after four years of service. BCC thanks them
for their leadership and accomplishments in these roles. We welcomed Bruce
Evans as the incoming chair of the MARC Formats Subcommittee and Hermine
Vermeij as the incoming chair of the Subject Access Subcommittee.