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Encoding Standards: ALA Annual Report 2021

MARC Advisory Committee (MAC) Annual Meetings, June 28-30, 2021 Report by Karen Peters (Library of Congress), Chair, Encoding Standards Subcommittee (Recordings of the meetings are available here). Meeting #1, June 28, 2021, 10:30-12:30 EST Chair Matthew Wise opened the meeting and explained the protocols for this set of virtual meetings, which were held via WebEx. After the MAC members introduced ourselves, minutes from the January 2021 meetings were approved. No fast-track proposals have been approved since the last meeting. Proposal No. 2021-11, “Defining Subfields $y and $z for Incorrect/Canceled ISSNs in Field 490 of the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format,” was introduced by Jay Weitz on behalf of OCLC. While field 490 permits the entry of ISSNs in subfield $x, there is currently no means of reflecting the status or accuracy of this information, if known. The proposed addition of the subfields is intended to provide a situation similar to that

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CC:DA: ALA Annual Report 2021

Committee on Cataloging: Descriptive Access (CC:DA): Virtual ALA, Summer 2021 Keith Knop, MLA Liaison The Core Committee: Description and Access held a virtual meeting on July 26, compressed due to scheduling difficulties from three meetings originally planned for earlier in the month. Due to the shortened meeting time, most of the time was spent on highlights from the various written officer and liaison reports. Chair’s report and CC:DA business: http://alcts.ala.org/ccdablog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CHAIR-2021-2022-01.pdf LibLearnX, scheduled for January, is the replacement for the now-defunct ALA Midwinter meeting and does not serve the same purposes. It was suggested that CC:DA meet either two weeks before or after. A task force has been formed to investigate the possible role of CC:DA in RDA Toolkit training. North American RDA Committee (NARDAC) liaisons’ report: https://alcts.ala.org/ccdablog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/NARDAC-2021-02R.pdf A basic error-reporting form for LC-PCC Policy Statements in the new RDA Toolkit is now available: https://loc.libwizard.com/f/lc-pcc-ps-error-report.  This form is intended only for

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Vocabularies Annual Report: 2021

Report title: Vocabularies Subcommittee Annual Report 2021 Submitted by: Rebecca Belford Email: belford.rebecca@gmail.com Group name: Vocabularies Subcommittee Special Officers, Editors, and Liaisons: ALA Subject Analysis Committee (SAC) Liaison Group Members Rebecca Belford, Chair (2022) Anne Adams (2023) Josh Aldorisio (2025) Kristi Bergland (2025) Ann Churukian (2024) Patty Falk (2024) Jenée Force (resigned 2020) Joshua Henry (2021) Mary Huismann (2024) Marty Jenkins (2021) Leonard Martin (2023) Allison McClanahan (2023) Jennifer Olson (2023) Treshani Perera (2022; resigned 2021) Kyle Shockey (2021) Tracey Snyder (2024) Clare Spitzer (2025) Mark Scharff, NACO Music Project Coordinator (2025) Beth Iseminger, SACO Music Funnel Coordinator (2025) Maarja Vigorito, Library of Congress Representative Jay Weitz, OCLC Representative Previous Goals Implement regular 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

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Encoding Standards Annual Report: 2021

Annual Report, July 1, 2020-June 30, 2021 Submitted by: Karen A. Peters, Chair Group Name: Encoding Standards Subcommittee Special Offices: MARC Advisory Committee (MAC) Liaison, [RDA/MARC Working Group member, music specialist (by virtue of MAC Liaison position)]. Regarding the CORE Metadata Interest Group (MIG), please see below under Additional Activities. Group Members Karen Peters (Chair, 2019-2023) Jim Alberts (2023) Ethan D’Ver (2023) Matt Ertz (2021) Chelsea Hoover (2022) Rahni Kennedy (2023) Anna Alfeld LoPrete (2025) Jeff Lyon (2024) Felicia Piscitelli (2021) Tomoko Shibuya (2022) Amy Strickland (2022) Laura Thompson (2025) Damian Iseminger (LC Representative) Jay N. Weitz (OCLC Representative) Previous Goals Continue to monitor and participate in MARC development—particularly in light of pending implementation of official RDA (expected July 2022)–and communicate any needs for best practices or other documentation to help music catalogers implement changes to MARC (Goal area: Value of the Profession) The Chair served as MLA’s representative to

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Content Standards Annual Report: 2021

CURRENT ROSTER Keith Knop, Chair (2024) Linda Bagley (2024) Benjamin Barba (2022) Janice Bunker (2022) Reed David (2024) Sarah Holmes (2025) Ivan Kaproth-Joslin (2023) Charles Peters (2023) Jacob Schaub (2024) Amanda Scott (2025) Hannah Spence (2023) Casey Mullin, BIBCO Music Funnel Coordinator Christopher Holden, Library of Congress Representative Jay Weitz, OCLC Representative LIST OF PREVIOUS GOALS AND PROGRESS MADE Revise the RDA Best Practices as required for the RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign (3R) Project once the guidance and files are received from ALA Publishing (Goal areas: Education, Value of the Profession) ALA Publishing created the shell files for the MLA Best Practices in the new Toolkit in February 2021. A subset of elements corresponding to the MLA Best Practices for Chapters 2 and 3 (Identifying Manifestations and Items and Describing Carriers) of the original RDA Toolkit were loaded into the Toolkit for the April 2021 update. The remaining elements

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Annual Report from the Chair: 2021

Report Title: Cataloging and Metadata Committee Annual Report, July 1, 2020-June 30, 2021 Submitted by: Hermine Vermeij Group Name: Cataloging and Metadata Committee Group Members: Hermine Vermeij, Chair, Cataloging and Metadata Committee (2023) Keith Knop, Chair, Content Standards Subcommittee (2024) Karen Peters, Chair, Encoding Standards Subcommittee (2023) Rebecca Belford, Chair, Vocabularies Subcommittee (2022) Joshua Henry, Secretary/Webmaster (2022) Kristi Bergland, Incoming Secretary/Webmaster (2025) Kirk-Evan Billet, Editor, Music Cataloging Bulletin (2025) Casey Mullin, BIBCO Music Funnel Coordinator (2025) Mark Scharff, NACO-Music Project Coordinator (2025) Beth Iseminger, SACO Music Funnel Coordinator (2025) Susan Vita, Library of Congress Representative Jay Weitz, OCLC Representative The committee encompasses three subcommittees and three music-specific Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) funnels (NACO, SACO, and BIBCO); the chairs of the subcommittees and coordinators of the funnels serve on the committee. The funnel coordinators also participate as ex officio members of the relevant subcommittees. The work of the subcommittees is

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MAC: Core Midwinter Report 2021

Meetings held online January 26-28, 2021 Report by Karen Peters (Library of Congress), Chair, Encoding Standards Subcommittee (Recordings of the meetings are available here) January 26, 2020 Meeting, 10:30-12:30 EST Chair Matthew Wise opened the meeting and explained the protocols for this set of virtual meetings, which were held via WebEx. After the MAC members introduced themselves, minutes from the June-July 2020 MAC Meetings were approved; and the 3 fast-track changes approved since those meetings and subsequently made part of MARC documentation in MARC Update No. 31 (December 2020) were noted: Proposal No. 2020-FT01 made field 043 (Geographic Area Code) repeatable in the Bibliographic, Authority, Classification, and Community Information formats “to facilitate the inclusion of authority record control and standard numbers and URIs.” Proposal No. 2020-FT02 added subfields $0 (Authority record control number or standard number) and $1 (Real World Object URI) to field 375 (Gender) of the Authority format

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CC:DA Core Midwinter Report 2021

Virtual meetings held February 5, 9, and 12, 2021. Reported by Keith Knop  February 5 The first meeting was largely concerned with procedural matters but also featured reports from two task forces and a presentation and Q&A session with James Hennelly from ALA Publishing. An open question is the nature of virtual meetings in the future; once the Core transition is complete it is not clear if ALA will want all committee meetings to be conducted via an ALA account or if it will be fine to continue using, e.g., the committee chair’s institution’s Zoom account, as CC:DA has been. A proposed task force to review the final draft of the ALA Cataloging Code of Ethics (final version) did not form due to a series of scheduling misunderstandings.  The charge of the Virtual Participation Task Force was amended to include investigation of ALA Connect as a tool for committee work,

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SAC: Core Midwinter Report 2021

Virtual meetings held February 26, 2021 and March 19, 2021 Report by Rebecca Belford, Chair, CMC Vocabularies Subcommittee and MLA liaison to SAC New business follows highlight of liaison reports, below. Technical difficulties with the ALA Core Connect Space means that access to liaisons’ written reports has been unintentionally restricted; these are available on request.  SAC Chair Brian Stearns welcomed new associate members Margaret Joyce and Adrian Williams; new liaison organizations and their liaisons Getty (Jonathan Ward), OCLC (Robert Bremer), and LC Children’s and Young Adults’ Cataloging Program (Stacey Devine); and new liaisons for LC Editorial (Michele Zwierski) and FAST (Heidy Berthoud). Library of Congress Policy, Training, and Cooperative Programs Division (Janis Young) Young thanked SAC members for SAC’s comments on the LC tentative lists and for their help with literary author numbers and the multiples cancellations projects. SAC participants contributed 258 of the author class numbers added to authority

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Vocabularies Subcommittee: MLA Report 2021

Music Library Association Cataloging and Metadata Committee: Vocabularies Subcommittee (VS) Business Meeting 2021 Summary Thursday, March 18, 2021, 3:00-4:25 pm Eastern, via Zoom Members present Rebecca Belford (Chair), Anne Adams, Ann Churukian, Patty Falk, Joshua Henry, Mary Huismann, Marty Jenkins, Leonard Martin, Allison McClanahan, Jennifer Olson, Kyle Shockey, Tracey Snyder, Mark Scharff (NACO-Music Project Coordinator), Beth Iseminger (SACO Music Funnel Coordinator), Maarja Vigorito (LC Representative), Jay Weitz (OCLC Representative) Chair’s report (Belford) ALA Liaison The VS Chair serves as MLA’s liaison to ALA Core Subject Analysis Committee. Reports from the SAC and SAC Subcommittee of Faceted Vocabularies meetings at ALA Annual 2020, a draft report from part 1 of the SAC 2021 midwinter meeting, and a summary of the SAC Subcommittee on Faceted Vocabularies (SSFV) meeting were distributed in advance. Belford was unable to attend the SSFV meeting and thanked SSFV Chair Casey Mullin for use of the chair’s report

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Encoding Standards Subcommittee: MLA Report 2021

Minutes, Cataloging and Metadata Committee Encoding Standards Subcommittee Business Meeting Monday, March 15, 2021, 2:00-3:25 ET (via Zoom) Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRxGdocO-Ev6LKxHWFRWeJFJXTBmQ3eOKiPktEFu-Q1hZ8WkdY__DhC5gGnrHlMfg/pub Members in attendance: Karen Peters (Chair), Jim Alberts, Ethan D’Ver, Matt Ertz, Chelsea Hoover, Rahni Kennedy, Jeff Lyon, Felicia Piscitelli, Tomoko Shibuya, Amy Strickland, Damian Iseminger (LC representative), Jay Weitz (OCLC representative). 1) Welcome and introductions The Chair welcomed attendees to the meeting and asked the Subcommittee members to introduce themselves. 2) ESS Chair’s report (Chair) The Chair briefly pointed out the links in the Agenda to her reports on the June/July 2020 and January 2021 MARC Advisory Committee Meetings (in lieu of the usual ALA reports); acknowledged new (since the last meeting) Subcommittee member Jeff Lyon; thanked outgoing Subcommittee members Matt Ertz and Felicia Piscitelli for their past service; and issued a call for applications from new members. 3) LC Liaison report (Iseminger) Damian Iseminger reported that he is

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