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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, SACO Music Funnel Coordinator, and Casey Mullin, BIBCO Music Funnel coordinator.  From Leo: It was a balmy 86°F when I landed in Baltimore, Maryland, one day before the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Joint Operations Committee Meeting held at the Library of Congress. I spent the day catching up with an old friend from high school before heading to the capitol later that evening. I arrived at my AirBnB later that evening with enough time to iron my travel weary attire in preparation for the OpCo meeting the following morning.  Still adjusting to the 1-hour time zone difference, I walked

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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 funnel members, serves on the NMP Advisory Committee (NMPAC), is a nonvoting, ex officio member of CMC, and is an ex officio member of the CMC Content Standards Subcommittee and the CMC Vocabularies Subcommittee. The Coordinator represents the Funnel’s interests to PCC and CMC and vice versa, prepares NMP responses to proposed new or revised PCC policies relating to name and name-title authority control, and works with the CSS Chair on drafting LC-PCC PSs affecting name authority work. The Coordinator also holds voting rights in the annual PCC election for electing the governing body and committees of the PCC on behalf of the Funnel.

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PCC Funnels (NACO/SACO/BIBCO) Meeting

Here are the slides that were unable to be shown at the meeting: PCC Music Funnel Projects meeting 2017-blogpost-bw For more information, contact the Coordinators: Mark Scharff, NMP Coordinator Nancy Lorimer, SACO Coordinator Linda Blair, BIBCO Coordinator

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ALA Midwinter 2016 PCC and CAPC Meeting Notes

Notes from PCC meetings at ALA Midwinter 2016 are available at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16UMfi1-Fx-5O5yZPmwZfwfK8zFplljOlY51m8C7va78/edit Notes from the OLAC-CAPC meeting at ALA Midwinter 2016 are available at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZXYaSqw-anEaPTbRrHhC5ryVEsSDcL9Iwq5hoG7Ty3U/edit

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Relationship designators in bibliographic records–PCC training manual

The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Standing Committee on Training (SCT) published a training manual for applying relationship designators in bibliographic records in January 2015. See http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/sct/documents/rel-desig-guide-bib.pdf. New relationship designators may be proposed using the PCC relationship designator proposal form. See http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/scs/RD-Requests.html. Please use MOUG-L to discuss ideas for new or revised relationship designators, or contact any of the following people: Kathy Glennan, ALA representative to the Joint Steering Committee Beth Iseminger, Chair of MLA Cataloging and Metadata Committee Tracey Snyder, Chair of MLA Content Standards Subcommittee

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