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CC:DA Midwinter Meeting Report 2024

CC:DA Midwinter Report 2024 February 2 & 5, 2024 Submitted by Keith Knop, CMC Content Standards Subcommittee Chair and liaison to CC:DA. The annual midwinter meeting of the ALA Core Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA) took place virtually on February 2 and 5, 2024. The full meeting agenda, including links to reports from the PCC, NARDAC, Library of Congress, OCLC and MARC Advisory Committee representatives, is available here: https://connect.ala.org/core/discussion/draft-agenda-for-ccda-midwinter-meeting-1. Both sessions were recorded, and links to the recordings were posted to the publicly available CC:DA discussion space in ALA Connect. Much of the discussion was occupied by matters of CC:DA governance and the preservation and archiving of previous CC:DA work, including comments and discussion submitted by liaisons and representatives from groups outside of CC:DA. There was nothing of direct relevance to music cataloging discussed, but two points were of general interest. First, the report from Kate James, OCLC

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SAC Midwinter Meeting 2024

Core Metadata and Collections Section Subject Analysis Committee 2024 Midwinter Meeting January 29-31, 2024 Reported by Janelle West, Vocabularies Subcommittee chair and liaison to SAC The Subject Analysis Committee (SAC) met virtually on January 29-31, 2024. The first two meetings consisted primarily of liaison reports, leaving the final day for continued discussion, follow-up on old business, and new business as needed. Outlined below are selected updates from the meeting. Paul Frank, liaison from the Library of Congress Policy, Training, and Cooperative Programs Division, reported that subject proposals for each monthly list will temporarily be limited to 200, thereby ensuring a more manageable load for the editorial group. LC Subject Editorial Meetings occur monthly and are open to the public. The 2024 meeting schedule is available online. Also from the PTCP, efforts continue toward providing inclusive and reparative description. A Program Specialist will be brought on to work with changes to

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SAC: ALA Annual Report 2023

Core Metadata and Collections Section Subject Analysis Committee 2023 Annual Meeting June 14-16, 2023 reported by Janelle West, Vocabularies Subcommittee chair and liaison to SAC The Subject Analysis Committee (SAC) met virtually on June 14-16, 2023. The first two meetings consisted of brief reports by the various liaisons and committee members, with the final day primarily reserved for follow-up on old business and the introduction of new business. A common thread throughout the meeting continues to be ongoing efforts to address prejudicial, racist, and otherwise derogatory and offensive classifications and vocabularies relating to Indigenous peoples, enslaved people, and other areas of DEI work. Other select points of note are presented below, and full details on committee and liaison updates may be viewed in the written reports linked at the end. FAST Policy and Outreach Committee (FPOC) FPOC members who are users of Classification Web have noted that LCSH strings are

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CC:DA ALA Annual Report 2023

CC:DA ALA Annual Report 2023, July 14 & 21, 2023 Submitted by Keith Knop, CMC Content Standards Subcommittee Chair and liaison to CC:DA. The annual summer meeting of the ALA Core Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA) took place virtually on July 14 and 21, 2023. The full meeting agenda, including links to reports from the PCC, NARDAC, Library of Congress, and MARC Advisory Committee representatives, is available here. Both sessions were recorded, and links to the recordings were posted to the publicly available CC:DA discussion space in ALA Connect.Of primary interest to music cataloging were two MLA discussion papers related to RDA, both of which may be accessed via link in the public agenda cited above. The first paper addressed the apparent lack of support in the in the RDA File Type vocabulary for files containing notated music content as well as the lack of clarity in the

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MAC Midwinter Meeting 2024

MARC Advisory Committee (MAC) Midwinter Meeting, January 24-25, 2024 Report by Ethan D’Ver, Chair, Encoding Standards Subcommittee Recordings: (https://loc.gov/marc/mac/recordings.html) Brief Summary of Proceedings Proposal No. 2024-01: Recording Numeric Designation of Musical Expressions in the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority Formats Proposal submitted by MLA, based on Discussion Paper No. 2023-DP07 The proposal passed as written Proposal No. 2024-02 and Proposal No. 2024-04 passed as written Proposal No. 2024-03 passed with the amendment of defining subfield $0 as well Discussion Paper No. 2024-DP01, Discussion Paper No. 2024-DP03, and Discussion Paper No. 2024-DP05 were approved for fast-tracking Discussion Paper No. 2024-DP04 will return as a proposal Discussion Paper No. 2024-DP02: Adding Subfield $i to Field 245 While most MAC members agreed in principle about the need for sensitivity surrounding harmful language in catalogs, most found several issues with the solution presented in this paper. In a straw poll, majority wanted to see

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Encoding Standards: ALA Annual Report 2023

MARC Advisory Committee (MAC) Annual Meeting, June 28-29, 2023 Report by Ethan D’Ver, Chair, Encoding Standards Subcommittee Recordings: https://loc.gov/marc/mac/recordings.html Selected Summary Discussion Paper No. 2023-DP07: Recording Numeric Designation of Musical Expressions in the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority Formats General agreement that defining an indicator to signify whether the numeric designation refers to the work or expression is not appropriate for the Authority Format, since the data should match the type of entity that the record is for. However, it could be defined for the Bibliographic Format. There is recent precedent for defining such indicator values in the Bibliographic but not the Authority Format with the 046 field. From the pre-meeting comments, an excellent point was raised about providing an example for a numeric designation of a musical work to fully demonstrate the new indicator values. The other pre-meeting questions raised, including the RSC’s unlikeliness to approve new identifier subtypes,

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Encoding Standards Annual Report: 2023

submitted by Ethan D’Ver Current Roster Ethan D’Ver, Chair (2027) Janice Bunker (2026) Andrea Cawelti (2027) David Floyd (2027) Jessica Grimmer (2026) Kevin Kishimoto (2027) Anna Alfeld LoPrete (2025) Jeff Lyon (2024) Jennifer Olson (2027) Laura Thompson (2025) Hermine Vermeij (2027) Damian Iseminger, Library of Congress Representative Jay Weitz, OCLC Representative List of Previous Goals and Progress Made 1. Continue to monitor and participate in MARC development—particularly in light of pending implementation of official RDA (now expected no sooner than October 2022, and most likely later than that), and with an eye towards the facilitation of BIBFRAME/MARC conversion when possible—and communicate any needs for best practices or other documentation to help music catalogers implement new changes to MARC. In October, the former Chair revised joint MLA/OLAC MARC Discussion Paper No. 2022-DP-07, which examined the possibility of adding subfield $3 (Materials specified) to field 041 (Language code), as a MARC Proposal.

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Vocabularies Subcommittee Annual Report 2023

submitted by Janelle West Current Roster Janelle West, Chair (2026) Anne Adams (2023) Jim Alberts (2027) Josh Aldorisio (2025) Kristi Bergland (2025) Blaine Brubaker (2026) Ann Churukian (2024) Patty Falk (2024) Mary Huismann (2024) Ivan Kaproth-Joslin (2027) Allison McClanahan (2023) Rick McRae (2026) Laikin Morris (2027) Jennifer Olson (2023) Tomoko Shibuya (2026) Tracey Snyder (2024) Clare Spitzer (2025) Alice Sujana (2027) Mark Scharff, NACO Music Project Coordinator (2025) Leo Martin, SACO Music Funnel Coordinator (2026) Maarja Vigorito, Library of Congress Representative Jay Weitz, OCLC Representative List of Previous Goals and Progress Made 1. Continue review of music-related LCSH and LCGFT, and LCMPT terms appearing in monthly LC tentative lists with task group, VS LC representative, and the Music SACO Funnel Coordinator; submit comments to LC when appropriate. Continue with defined projects and ad hoc proposals for LCGFT and LCMPT. Task group has reviewed the monthly tentative lists and submitted comments

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Vocabularies Subcommittee: MLA Report 2024

Music Library Association Vocabularies Subcommittee Business Meeting Wednesday, March 6, 2024 2:30pm-3:25pm EST, virtual Meeting summary by Janelle West Members present:Janelle West (chair); Jim Alberts; Josh Aldorisio; Kristi Bergland; Blaine Brubaker; Janice Bunker (ESS representative); Ann Churukian; Laikin Dantchenko; Patty Falk; Ivan Kaproth-Joslin; Mary Huismann; Leo Martin (SACO Music Funnel Coordinator); Rick McRae; Mark Scharff (NACO-Music Project Funnel Coordinator); Tomoko Shibuya; Tracey Snyder; Clare Spitzer; Alice Sujana; Maarja Vigorito (LC representative). Approximately 60 guests. Welcome and Introductions The Chair welcomed meeting attendees and pointed them to the agenda and the MLA Code of Conduct 2023 Business Meetings were approved Subcommittee members, representatives and liaisons introduced themselves Chair’s Report (J. West) CORE Subject Analysis Committee liaison reports SAC Annual Meeting 2023 SAC Midwinter Meeting 2024 Membership New members and representatives for 2023-2024: Jim Alberts, Laikin Dantchenko, Ivan Kaproth-Joslin, Alice Sujana, Janice Bunker (ESS representative), Morris Levy (OCLC representatives) Departing members: Ann

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Encoding Standards Subcommittee: MLA Report 2024

Music Library Association Annual Meeting 2024 Cataloging and Metadata Committee Encoding Standards Subcommittee Business Meeting March 6, 2024, 2:00-2:55 pm Eastern Time Minutes prepared by Janice Bunker Attendance: Ethan D’Ver (chair), Janice Bunker, Hermine Vermeij, Andrea Cawelti, Morris Levy (OCLC), Kevin Kishimoto, Anna LoPrete, Damian Iseminger (Library of Congress), Laura Thompson, David Floyd, Jessica Grimmer, Jennifer Olson Excused: Jeff Lyon Opening (meeting began 2:02) Ethan, as chair, welcomed everyone and had the Subcommittee members introduce themselves. He asked that Subcommittee members keep their video and audio on and to speak freely. He asked guests to raise their virtual hands when they wanted to speak, and to turn on video and unmute when called upon. He asked everyone to abide by the MLA Code of Conduct. The 2023 minutes were approved. Chair’s Report (D’Ver) There were some membership changes over the course of the year. D’Ver first sent love and thanks to

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Content Standards Subcommittee: MLA Report 2024

Music Library Association Content Standards Subcommittee Business Meeting Thursday, March 7, 2024 12:00pm-12:55pm EST, virtual The annual meeting of the Content Standards subcommittee was recorded and registered meeting attendees may watch the recording through the CVENT platform. Members in attendance: Anne Adams, Linda Bagley, Emily Colucci, Reed David, Chelsea Hoover, Chris Holden (Library of Congress), Keith Knop (chair), Morris Levy, (OCLC), Casey Mullin (BIBCO Music Funnel), Karen Peters, Daniel Ray, Mark Scharff (NACO Music Project), Anthony Sharp, Amy Strickland. Not present: Amanda Scott. Minutes: The minutes of the previous meeting were approved without modification. Membership: Three people’s terms conclude in March 2024: Linda Bagley, Reed David, and Keith Knop. Additionally, Jay Weitz concluded his tenure as OCLC representative to CMC and its subcommittees with his retirement. Six members were added in 2023: Anne Adams, Karen Peters, Dan Ray, Anthony Sharp, and Amy Strickland. Additionally, Morris Levy assumed the role of

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