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Subject:        Re: MARC Advisory Committee proposals and discussion papers of
potential interest
Date:   Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:48:53 -0500 (EST)
From:   Paige G. Andrew <[log in to unmask]>
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Thanks for sharing this Susan! This proposal seems to go hand-in-hand
with those who wish to take RDA and apply it comprehensively in terms of
no longer abbreviating things, so that in our geographic headings
currently abbreviated in the qualification area the placename would be
spelled out. Interesting times!
Paige

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Subject:        MARC Advisory Committee proposals and discussion papers of
potential interest
Date:   Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:05:21 -0600
From:   Susan Moore <[log in to unmask]>
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The MARC Advisory Committee (MAC) is the committee that will now oversee
changes to the MARC21 format. No more MARBI reports.

There's a fairly short agenda this time with three proposals and four
discussion papers. On Saturday morning, we're scheduled to take up
Discussion Paper 2014-DP03 "Miscellaneous information" in Topical Terms
and Geographic Name Fields of the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority
Formats. This comes from the German National Library which wants to be
able to separate qualifying information from topical terms and
geographic headings. They've been using $g for miscellaneous information
which isn't currently defined in the 150 and 151 fields in the
Authorities format or the 650 and 651 fields in the Bibliographic
format. Since it's a discussion paper, we won't vote on it this
conference. But it would result in the heading 151  $aNew York $g State
if approved.

On Sunday afternoon, there's nothing specifically geographic or
cartographic.

It's interesting to note that in an apparent nod to the future, all
proposals and discussion papers now have a section labelled "Bibframe
discussion".

Susan Moore
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA  50613
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