Greetings CC:DA,
Below is the announcement of the proposals and papers for the forthcoming meeting of the MARC Advisory Committee.
If you have feedback, please provide it to me by the end of the day on Monday, July 13.
Thanks,
Amanda
CC:DA liaison to MAC
The MARC Advisory Committee Annual Meeting agenda is available at:
https://www.loc.gov/marc/mac/an2026_age.html
The MAC Chair, Cate Gerhart, requests that all pre-meeting comments
about the papers be posted to the MARC Listserv before the end of day
on Wednesday, July 15.
The meeting will be held on Zoom. Information about meeting access will be posted in July.
PROPOSALS
Proposal No. 2026-05: Recording Container Designation in the 87X Fields
of the MARC 21 Holdings Format
https://www.loc.gov/marc/mac/2026/2026-05.html
Proposal No. 2026-06: Defining a New Field for Notated Movement Characteristics
in the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority Formats
https://www.loc.gov/marc/mac/2026/2026-06.html
DISCUSSION PAPERS
Discussion Paper No. 2026-DP05: Recording Choreographic Medium of
Performance in the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority Formats
https://www.loc.gov/marc/mac/2026/2026-dp05.html
Discussion Paper No. 2026-DP06: Broadening Field 542 to Record Intellectual
Property Disputes in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format
https://www.loc.gov/marc/mac/2026/2026-dp06.html
Discussion Paper No. 2026-DP07: Adding an Indicator for Non-preferred Variant
Headings in 4XX Fields in the MARC21 Authority Format
https://www.loc.gov/marc/mac/2026/2026-dp07.html
Discussion Paper No. 2026-DP08: Adding Subfield $5 to Field 340 in the
MARC 21 Bibliographic Format
https://www.loc.gov/marc/mac/2026/2026-dp08.html
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Amanda Ros
Coordinator of Adaptive Cataloging & Resource Management
Texas A&M University
She/Her/Hers,They/theirs
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