The MARC Advisory Committee (MAC) will hold its summer meetings after ALA Annual, on June 28-29, 2023. The draft agenda is posted athttps://www.loc.gov/marc/mac/an2023_age.html
Proposal No. 2023-05: Attributes of Family in the MARC 21 Authority Format
This paper proposes new and revised fields and subfields for accommodating address of family, field of activity of family, occupation of family, and other attributes of families in various fields in the MARC 21 Authority Format.
Proposal No. 2023-06: Defining a New Field for Cluster ISSNs in the MARC 21 Bibliographic, Authority, and Holdings Formats
This paper proposes the creation of a new MARC field 023 in the MARC 21 Bibliographic, Authority, and Holdings formats to store Cluster ISSNs. Cluster ISSNs, such as ISSN-L, identify a group of related resources as defined in ISO 3297:2020.
Discussion Paper No. 2023-DP05: Refinement of Accessibility Field 341 in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format
This paper suggests adjustments to the Field Definition and Scope of MARC Bibliographic field 341 (Accessibility Content) and to the description of 341 subfield $a (Content access mode).
Discussion Paper No. 2023-DP06: Adding Subfield $3 to Field 532 in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format
This paper suggests adding new subfield $3 (Materials specified) in field 532 (Accessibility Note) in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format to allow for expressing which part of the resource different 532 fields refer to.
Discussion Paper No. 2023-DP07: Recording Numeric Designation of Musical Expressions in the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority Formats
This paper suggests changing the name of and defining an indicator for Field 383 (Numeric Designation of Musical Work) in the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority Formats to allow for recording numeric designations of musical expressions.
Discussion Paper No. 2023-DP08: Adding Subfields $0, $1, and $5 to Linking Fields 76X-78X in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format
This paper proposes adding subfields $0 (Authority record control number or standard number), $1 (Real World Object URI), and $5 (Institution to which field applies) in linking entry fields 760 (Main Series Entry), 762 (Subseries Entry), 765 (Original Language Entry), 767 (Translation Entry), 770 (Supplement/Special Issue Entry), 772 (Supplement Parent Entry), 773 (Host Item Entry), 774 (Constitute Unity Entry), 775 (Other edition), 776 (Additional Physical Form), 777 (Issued With Entry), 780 (Preceding Entry), 785 (Succeeding Entry), 786 (Data Source Entry), and 787 (Other Relationship Entry), and 788 (Parallel Description in Another Language of Cataloging) in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format.
Discussion Paper No. 2023-DP09: Adding Subfields $0 and $1 to Fields 082 and 083 in the MARC 21 Formats
This paper proposes adding subfields $0 (Authority record control number or standard number) and $1 (Real World Object URI) to fields 082 (Dewey Decimal Classification Number) and 083 (Additional Dewey Decimal Classification Number) in MARC 21 Authority, Bibliographic, and Community Information formats.
Of the proposals and discussion papers, SAC members will probably be most interested in Discussion Paper No. 2023-DP09, as it deals with a change to a classification field. However, please send any comments regarding any of the papers to our list and I can bring them to the MAC meeting.
Adam L. Schiff
SAC liaison to the MARC Advisory Committee
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Adam Schiff
Principal Cataloger
University of Washington Libraries
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