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Reports from ALA and MAC 2024 annual meetings posted

CMC’s three subcommittee chairs each represent MLA on larger cataloging-related bodies throughout the year and at their meetings. In turn, they report back to MLA, and their reports from each of the annual meetings are now available: As always, if you have questions or suggestions related to descriptive, encoding, or

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PCC OpCo Reflections 2024

This year, MLA generously contributed funding toward in-person attendance by two of our music PCC funnel coordinators at the annual PCC Joint Operations Committee (“OpCo”) meeting in Washington, DC, May 2-3 2024. Please enjoy reflections below on DC, participating in-person at a hybrid meeting, and meeting content, by Leo Martin,

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Call for applications – NACO-Music Project Coordinator

The Music Library Association’s Cataloging and Metadata Committee (CMC) is seeking a Coordinator for the NACO-Music Project (NMP), the music funnel of the Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO) of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC). This is a five-year term, 2025-2030.  The NACO-Music Project Coordinator plans training and assigns reviewers for new

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OCLC Music Toolkit Installer Updated May 2024

The OCLC Music Toolkit installer has been updated and is now available for download at http://files.library.northwestern.edu/public/Music382/. With this update, 650, 655 and 382 mappings are current through 2022, and work will soon begin on 2023 additions.    Music Toolkit users are encouraged to report questions, suggestions, or unexpected Toolkit behavior

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New addition to BIBCO Music Funnel FAQ

The BIBCO Music Funnel is pleased to announce a long-desired addition to our FAQ that addresses which authorized access points (AAPs) in score and sound recording BIBCO records must be backed by authority records. Until now, the only documentation addressing this question  was located in the BIBCO Participants Manual (BPM) and the BIBCO Standard Record

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