Encoding Standards: ALA Annual Report 2024
MARC Advisory Committee (MAC) Annual Meeting, June 25, 2024 Report by Ethan D’Ver, Chair, Encoding Standards Subcommittee, MLA Representative to MAC Recordings: http://loc.gov/marc/mac/recordings.html MLA Advance Comments: MLA responses to June 2024 MAC papers Brief Summary of Proceedings Proposal No. 2024-05: Adding Subfields $0 and $1 to Fields 506 and 540 in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format Passed with minor amendments. Discussion Paper No. 2024-DP11: Tagging Transliteration Schemes and BCP 47 in Data Provenance Subfields in the MARC 21 Authority and Bibliographic Formats A lot of pushback about the options presented in the paper, the authors will revisit and consider additional options Discussion Paper No. 2024-DP06: Adding Subfields $0 and $1 to Field 024 in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format Presenter addresses MLA’s concern about work data encroaching into bibliographic records, and assures that this was not their intent. They will update some of the examples to reflect this. Discussion Paper