Members:
Beth
Iseminger (Chair), Ralph
Hartsock,
Caitlin
Hunter, Marty
Jenkins, Brooke Lippy, Nancy
Lorimer, Mark
McKnight, Casey Mullin, Thomas Pease, Karen
Peters, Sheila
Torres-Blank, Hermine Vermeij
Report on Activities
- During the past
year, the task force complied extensive lists of new terminology (not
currently
in LCSH) primarily from New Grove and
the Garland
Encyclopedia for World Music.
- A revision to the
group’s charge was accepted by the Board
- Responded to LC
discussion papers on sacred music headings, headings for psalms, and
subdivisions.
List of previous goals and
progress made toward each goal
List of goals for the next
year
- Determine where
medium of performance terms belong in the MARC record and make MARBI
proposals
accordingly.
- Create a
hierarchy for the first 1000 agreed-upon terms.
- Investigate
thesaurus software or other methods for creating hierarchy for all the
terms.
- Develop
principles for vetting the lists of new terms.
- Work with LC to
determine a best practice method for including new terms in the LCGFT.
- Work toward a
tangible product by FY 2011-2012.
If
there are ongoing tasks, decide whether the Task Force or the BCC
Subject
Access Subcommittee should be responsible for them.
Respectfully
submitted,
Beth Iseminger, Chair