Charge
The Vocabularies Subcommittee participates in the development and revision of controlled vocabularies applicable to music resources. Such vocabularies include subject, genre, form, medium of performance, types of composition, and other controlled lists of terms. The Subcommittee recommends MLA practice for the assignment of controlled vocabulary terms and recommends changes and additions to vocabularies as deemed necessary. The Subcommittee also represents music librarians’ interests in the development of music-related portions of classification schemes. The Subcommittee works on other matters deemed pertinent by the Cataloging and Metadata Committee and works with other CMC subcommittees or task groups as appropriate. The Subcommittee maintains documentation and MLA best practices related to topics specific to the subcommittee’s work.
Members
Janelle West, Chair
- James Alberts
- Joshua Aldorisio
- Kristi Bergland
- Blaine Brubaker
- Ann Churukian
- Laikin Dantchenko
- Patricia Falk
- Mary Huismann
- Ivan Kaproth-Joslin
- Rick McRae
- Tomoko Shibuya
- Tracey Snyder
- Clare Spitzer
- Alice Sujana
- Leonard Martin (SACO Music Funnel Coordinator)
- Maarja Vigorito (LC)
- Morris Levy (OCLC)
Recent Reports
Latest News
Revised LCSH Headings for Minstrelsy Terms
In April 2022 the MLA-CMC Vocabularies Maintenance Task Group began initial discussion of LC subject headings related to minstrelsy. Minstrelsy is a form of entertainment
Looking for Some Authority? Try the NACO Music Project
Hi. This is Mark Scharff, Coordinator for the NACO-Music Project (NMP), the funnel project that creates and updates authority records in the LC/NACO Authority File
RDA Best Practices Updates
Updates to two MLA RDA Best Practice supplement documents are now available via the CMC Best Practices page. Supplement 1: Guidelines for Describing and Encoding