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