RESULTS

2023 Content Standards Subcommittee Business Meeting and Agenda

The business meeting of the Content Standards Subcommittee will take place on Tuesday, March 7, from 10:00AM-11:20AM PST/1:00PM-2:20PM EST. All registered (virtual or in-person) attendees of the MLA conference are invited to attend. The agenda is available for viewing here. The Zoom link will become available for registered attendees through the session page in Sched ten minutes prior to the start of the meeting. We look forward to seeing you there! Keith Knop, Chair, Content Standards Subcommittee

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RDA Best Practices Training and Updates

Presentation slides for the ALA eLearning webinar Using the New RDA Toolkit to Catalog Music, presented August 9-11, 2022, have been deposited in the Humanities Commons here: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:48851/. Full presenter notes are included. Some of the pending issues mentioned in the slides have been addressed in the most recent Best Practices update in September. A summary of changes is below. Changes to the MLA Best Practices in the September Toolkit update are minimal, but highlights include the following: The MLA RDA Metadata Guidance document has been updated to version 0.92, with the following additions: Note: Although the electronic resource guidelines were written with reference to Official RDA, there should not be anything in them—other than directions to refer to the LC-PCC MGD—that conflicts with Original RDA. Error reports, comments, or feedback on the Best Practices in the new Toolkit may be submitted here: https://bit.ly/MLA-BP-feedback Error reports, comments, or feedback on

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Cataloging and Metadata News, August 2022

General Committee News Rebecca Belford was named as the Incoming Chair; she will become Chair in March 2023. Current full roster Recent reports with more details on the information in this report are available on the CMC website.  CMC presented its Cataloging and Metadata Town Hall with news from the committee at MLA 2022; the slides are available in Humanities Commons. Content Standards Subcommittee (CSS) (Keith Knop, Chair) The MLA Best Practices have been integrated into the new RDA Toolkit.   The Best Practices are now accompanied by an additional guidance document (available as a PDF  on the MLA Best Practices page). To account for changes to MARC21 field 348, an interim Best Practices update for form of musical notation has been released (same address) to bridge the gap between original and official RDA. Encoding Standards Subcommittee (ESS) (Karen Peters, Chair) After the editing of existing resources, and the completion and

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2021 Content Standards business meeting agenda

The annual business meeting for the Content Standards Subcommittee will be held virtually on Monday, March 15, at 12:00PM-1:25PM ET (9:00AM-10:25 AM PT); see the agenda here. The meeting is open to all registered attendees of the joint MLA/TLA conference. Zoom links will become available 10 minutes prior to the start of the meeting through the conference program in Sched.

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