The MARC Advisory Committee (MAC) will hold meetings during the 2016
Midwinter ALA Conference to discuss changes to the MARC 21 formats. The
dates, times, and location of the meetings are as follows:
Saturday, January 9, 8:30-10:00 AM
Sunday, January 10, 3:00-5:30 PM
Location:
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC) Room 104A (both Saturday and
Sunday)
The following proposals and discussion papers will be discussed at the
meetings:
MAC proposals
- 01 - Library and Archives Canada's coding 007 field positions for
digital reproductions of sound recordings (BD)
- 02 - Music Library Association's defining $r and $t, and redefining $e
in field 382 (BD, AD)
MAC discussion papers
Music Library Association Papers (all in Bibliographic)
- DP01 - Defining $3 and $5 in field 382
- DP02 - Clarifying code values in field 008/20 (Format of Music)
- DP03 - Recording distributor number for music and moving image
materials
British Library Papers
- DP04 - Extending the use of $0 to encompass linking fields (BD)
- DP05 - Expanding the definition of $w to encompass standard
numbers (BD, AD)
Online Audiovisual Catalogers Papers (all in Bibliographic)
- DP06 - Define $2 and $0 in field 753
- DP07 - Broaden usage of field 257 to include autonomous regions
- DP08 - Remove restriction on the use of dates in field 046 $k OCLC
Paper
- DP09 - Coding named events (BD, AD)
CONSER/PCC Paper
- DP10 - Defining field 347 (Digital File Characteristics) (HD) Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek Papers (all in Authority)
- DP11 - Punctuation
- DP12 - Designating matching information
- DP13 - Designation of a definition
- DP14 - Designation of the type of entity
- DP15 - Media type and carrier type
- DP16 - Extending the encoding level
The full agenda of the MAC meetings, with links to the papers, is available
at:
http://www.loc.gov/marc/mac/mw2016_age.html
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