The agenda for the 2018 business meeting of the Encoding Standards Subcommittee is now up. Take a look [ HERE ] Please join us on Thursday, February 1, 2018, from 1:30 to 2:25 p.m. in rooms Broadway I/II/III of the Hilton Portland Downtown in Portland, Oregon. Jim Soe Nyun, ESS Chair
All are welcome to attend the Content Standards Subcommittee (CSS) meeting on Thursday, Feb. 1 from 4:30-5:25 pm (Broadway I/II). The agenda is available here. Please join us! Mary Huismann, CSS Chair
The agenda for the Vocabularies Subcommittee 2018 Business Meeting during the Portland Annual Meeting is available here. The meeting is open to all. We hope to see you there! Cheers, Casey Mullin, VS Chair
The Music Library Association’s Cataloging and Metadata Committee will hold its annual in-person meetings Thursday, February 1 and Friday, February 2, 2018. For times and locations, see the MLA 2018 program. For a preview of discussion topics, see the CMC 2018 business meeting agenda, with links to several related reports embedded. All are welcome to join us for the open portion of the meetings. Tracey Snyder CMC Chair
The final report summarizing the work of a joint MLA/OLAC task group which worked to address issues connected to 23 additions to the Genre/Form Code and Term Source Codes list (https://tinyurl.com/y7tzhr32), which are utilized in the 33X and 34X fields has been issued. The Joint MLA/OLAC 33X/34X Task Group, as it came to be known, conducted their work over the summer, with some revisions to that work completed later in the fall. The group’s full recommendations can be accessed here: https://tinyurl.com/y866dcbf. The group was assembled by OLAC Cataloging Policy Committee Chair Bruce Evans and MLA CMC Content Standards Subcommittee Chair Mary Huismann, who also served as chair of the task group. Membership of the task group included: From MLA: Kristi Bergland, Patty Falk, Monica Figueroa, Karen Peters, Jim Soe Nyun, Michelle Urberg From OLAC: Melissa Burel, Scott Dutkiewicz, Bruce J. Evans, Greta de Groat, Rosemary Groenwald, Teressa Keenan, Yoko Kudo, Kelley
The MLA Cataloging and Metadata Committee invites all interested persons to apply to be part of its subcommittees. There are open positions on all CMC subcommittees: Content Standards, Encoding Standards, and Vocabularies. If you are interested in being a part of CMC, please send a brief application addressed to the CMC chair or any of the current subcommittee chairs. Applications must be in writing and should state: 1) your specific interest with regards to the subcommittee(s) to which you would like to apply; 2) your cataloging/metadata background; and 3) your abilities to meet CMC service expectations. Applications must be received via email or posted to the bulletin board at the MLA conference by end of day on the Thursday (not the usual Friday this year) of MLA. (Email is preferable, and early submission is very helpful.) CMC Chair: Tracey Snyder (tls224@cornell.edu) Content Standards Subcommittee: Mary Huismann (huisma1@stolaf.edu) Encoding
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