submitted by Rebecca Belford

Current Roster

• Rebecca Belford, Chair, Cataloging and Metadata Committee (2026)
• Chelsea Hoover, Chair, Content Standards Subcommittee (2028)
• Keith Knop, Chair, Content Standards Subcommittee (2024)
• Ethan D’Ver, Chair, Encoding Standards Subcommittee (2027)
• Janelle West, Chair, Vocabularies Subcommittee (2026)
• Kristi Bergland, 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)
• Leonard Martin, SACO Music Funnel Coordinator (2026)
• Susan Vita, Library of Congress Representative
• Morris Levy, OCLC Representative

List of Previous Goals and Progress Made

1. Continue work through the subcommittees related to RDA and descriptive standards, MARC and encoding standards, controlled vocabularies, music cataloging tools, and best practices

• Goal area 2: Develop and Retain Membership.
  • 2.2: Offer mentorship and networking opportunities for members at all stages of career
  • 2.3: Explore educational and networking opportunities beyond annual and chapter conferences. Sustain member contact throughout the year. Formalize more opportunities to meet virtually and more frequently.
  • 2.4: Support members working in various disciplines within an organization that also includes aspects of music librarianship.
• Goal Area 3: Cultivate Inclusivity
  • 3.2: Draw on member expertise by offering informal educational workshops, webinars, and panels….
• Goal area 4: Strengthen Communication
  • 4.5: Participate in the community of music librarianship existing outside of MLA
• Progress:
  • Detailed in individual subcommittee reports

2. Continue to support the three music-based PCC funnels, encouraging use of the SACO Funnel by the MLA community and generalist catalogers and continued membership and training for NACO and BIBCO; review documentation residing outside CMC or PCC auspices and plan for collocation and stability of such material

• Goal area 2: Develop and Retain Membership.
  • 2.3: Explore educational and networking opportunities beyond annual and chapter conferences. Sustain member contact throughout the year. Formalize more opportunities to meet virtually and more frequently.
  • 2.4: Support members working in various disciplines within an organization that also includes aspects of music librarianship.
• Progress:
  • BIBCO music funnel
    • 32 individual participants, with 4 new members this year, contributed a total of 1,682 new and revised bibliographic records during PCC FY 2023
    • Expanded FAQ added to BIBCO Music Funnel website
    • Partial funding provided to coordinator for in-person attendance at the PCC Operations Committee (OpCo) 2024 meeting
  • NACO-Music project (NMP)
    • 89 participants from 63 institutions contributed a total of 18, 849 new and changed name authority records during PCC FY 2023
    • New guide for the application process added to the NMP website
    • Coordinator authored a spotlight on NMP post for the CMC news feed
  • SACO music funnel
    • In the 2023-2024 MLA meeting year, 6 LCGFT terms, 10 LCMPT terms, 13 subject headings (LCSH), and 2 classification numbers submitted through the Funnel were approved; with a combined 11 terms on tentative lists
    • Collaborations with funnel continue to be promoted to generalist catalogers by chair of the Vocabularies Subcommittee
    • Partial funding provided to coordinator for in-person attendance at the PCC Operations Committee (OpCo) 2024 meeting

3. Foster a community of practice surrounding BIBFRAME and Linked Data ontologies and projects, increasing visibility of current work and collaborating with interested groups within the MLA or other communities. Work on projects that would increase the exposure of library-created metadata to users and researchers using non-library systems.

• Goal area 2: Develop and Retain Membership.
  • 2.3: Explore educational and networking opportunities beyond annual and chapter conferences. Sustain member contact throughout the year. Formalize more opportunities to meet virtually and more frequently.
• Goal Area 3: Cultivate Inclusivity
  • 3.2: Draw on member expertise by offering informal educational workshops, webinars, and panels….
• Goal Area 4: Strengthen Communication
  • 4.5: Participate in the community of music librarianship existing outside of MLA
• Progress:
  • The Linked Data Working Group (LWDG) is the primary locus of this community. 25 participants–all MLA members but many outside the CMC umbrella–meet in various combinations twice a month for discussion and working sessions.
  • LDWG held a Wikidata Working Week April 15-19, 2024, cosponsored by the Education Committee Professional Development Workshops Subcommittee and the Emerging Technologies & Services Committee. Participants ranged from beginners to LDWG members. A total of 41 participants created 170 Wikidata items, edited 330 items, and made a total of 3,510 edits for projects focused on art songs, music libraries and archives, and sheet music publishers.

4. Continue working toward stability and improvement of CMC organization: transfer materials to MLA archives; foster communication and community within CMC using a variety of platforms; incorporate suggestions growing out of the work of MLA’s Committee Management Team.

• Goal area 2: Develop and Retain Membership.
  • 2.3: Explore educational and networking opportunities beyond annual and chapter conferences. Sustain member contact throughout the year. Formalize more opportunities to meet virtually and more frequently.
• Progress
  • Ongoing communication with Committee Management Team

5. Foster a community of practice surrounding ethical description of music materials, including distributed efforts through the subcommittees and PCC funnels.

• Goal area 2: Develop and Retain Membership.
  • 2.3: Explore educational and networking opportunities beyond annual and chapter conferences. Sustain member contact throughout the year. Formalize more opportunities to meet virtually and more frequently.
• Goal area 3: Cultivate Inclusivity.
  • 3.4: Reflect DEIA principles in MLA’s leadership, membership, core values, mission, strategies and operations. Devote resources to clarifying and strengthening the “E” and “I” in DEIA.
• Progress
  • “Metadata-Focused DEIA Training” page launched March 2024, highlighting free trainings and presentations that support the implicit bias/DEIA training requirement for MLA service.
  • Featured CMC news feed post highlighting subject heading revisions to minstrelsy terms by the SACO funnel and Vocabularies Subcommittee.

6. Continue to develop outward communication toward regular or occasional catalogers of music materials outside MLA, and toward non-catalogers in the music library community.

• Goal Area 3: Cultivate Inclusivity
  • 3.2: Draw on member expertise by offering informal educational workshops, webinars, and panels….
• Goal area 4: Strengthen Communication
  • 4.4: Promote the professional contributions made by members in service to either the Association or the profession as a whole.
  • 4.5: Participate in the community of music librarianship existing outside of MLA.
• Progress:
  • Regular posts to CMC news feed, with posts or promoted content also pushed to the Music Cataloging Bulletin, MLA-L, and other email lists as appropriate. Topics include notification of updates to MLA best practices, automation tools, meeting agendas and summaries, and PCC funnel updates.
  • Sponsored “De-Mystifying Cataloging for Public Services” session at MLA 2024 meeting, with excellent attendance by public services colleagues.
  • CMC Town Hall 2024 slides posted to Knowledge Commons (formerly Humanities Commons).

7. Continued discussions with the Publications Committee and other stakeholders regarding transition of the Music Cataloging Bulletin to open access.Collaborate as appropriate with other MLA groups, other music-related groups, ALA groups, other library- or information-related groups, and Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC).

• • • Goal Area 3: Cultivate Inclusivity
      • 3.2: Draw on member expertise by offering informal educational workshops, webinars, and panels….
    • Goal area 4: Strengthen Communication
      • 4.4: Promote the professional contributions made by members in service to either the Association or the profession as a whole.
    • Progress:
      • CMC co-hosted a virtual ‘MLA CMC/BIBCO Open Music Cataloging Forum’ held June 4, 2024, with 130 registered attendees, including many who are PCC meeting regulars but not regular participants/attendees at CMC open meetings or MOUG.
      • Primarily accomplished through work of the Subcommittee chairs.

List of Future Goals

• 1. Continue work through the subcommittees related to RDA and descriptive standards, MARC and encoding standards, controlled vocabularies, music cataloging tools, and best practices
  • Goal area 2: Develop and Retain Membership.
    • 2.2: Offer mentorship and networking opportunities for members at all stages of career
    • 2.3: Explore educational and networking opportunities beyond annual and chapter conferences. Sustain member contact throughout the year. Formalize more opportunities to meet virtually and more frequently.
    • 2.4: Support members working in various disciplines within an organization that also includes aspects of music librarianship.
  • Goal Area 3: Cultivate Inclusivity
    • 3.2: Draw on member expertise by offering informal educational workshops, webinars, and panels….
  • Goal area 4: Strengthen Communication 4.5: Participate in the community of music librarianship existing outside of MLA
• 2. Continue to support the three music-based PCC funnels, encouraging use of the SACO Funnel by the MLA community and generalist catalogers and continued membership and training for NACO and BIBCO; transition planning for change in NACO funnel coordinator
  • Goal area 2: Develop and Retain Membership.
    • 2.3: Explore educational and networking opportunities beyond annual and chapter conferences. Sustain member contact throughout the year. Formalize more opportunities to meet virtually and more frequently.
    • 2.4: Support members working in various disciplines within an organization that also includes aspects of music librarianship.
• 3. Foster a community of practice surrounding BIBFRAME and Linked Data ontologies and projects, increasing visibility of current work and collaborating with interested groups within MLA or other communities. Work on projects that would increase the exposure of library-created metadata to users and researchers using non-library systems.
  • Goal area 2: Develop and Retain Membership.
    • 2.3: Explore educational and networking opportunities beyond annual and chapter conferences. Sustain member contact throughout the year. Formalize more opportunities to meet virtually and more frequently.
  • Goal Area 3: Cultivate Inclusivity
    • 3.2: Draw on member expertise by offering informal educational workshops, webinars, and panels….
  • Goal Area 4: Strengthen Communication
    • 4.5: Participate in the community of music librarianship existing outside of MLA
• 4. Continue CMC organizational excellence and stability; engage in active communication with MLA’s Committee Management Team for new subcommittee application processes; transition planning for CMC position turnovers.
  • Goal area 2: Develop and Retain Membership.
    • 2.3: Explore educational and networking opportunities beyond annual and chapter conferences. Sustain member contact throughout the year. Formalize more opportunities to meet virtually and more frequently.
• 5. Foster a community of practice surrounding ethical/reparative description of music materials, including distributed efforts through the subcommittees and PCC funnels.
  • Goal area 2: Develop and Retain Membership.
    • 2.3: Explore educational and networking opportunities beyond annual and chapter conferences. Sustain member contact throughout the year. Formalize more opportunities to meet virtually and more frequently.
  • Goal area 3: Cultivate Inclusivity.
    • 3.4: Reflect DEIA principles in MLA’s leadership, membership, core values, mission, strategies and operations. Devote resources to clarifying and strengthening the “E” and “I” in DEIA.
• 6. Continue to develop outward communication toward regular or occasional catalogers of music materials outside MLA, and toward non-catalogers in the music library community.
  • Goal Area 3: Cultivate Inclusivity
    • 3.2: Draw on member expertise by offering informal educational workshops, webinars, and panels….
  • Goal area 4: Strengthen Communication
    • 4.4: Promote the professional contributions made by members in service to either the Association or the profession as a whole.
    • 4.5: Participate in the community of music librarianship existing outside of MLA.
• 7. Collaborate as appropriate with other MLA groups, other music-related groups, ALA groups, other library- or information-related groups, and Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC).
  • Goal Area 3: Cultivate Inclusivity
    • 3.2: Draw on member expertise by offering informal educational workshops, webinars, and panels….
  • Goal area 4: Strengthen Communication
    • 4.4: Promote the professional contributions made by members in service to either the Association or the profession as a whole.