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Subject:        MARBI proposals of potential interest to the cartographic
materials cataloging community
Date:   Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:48:13 -0500
From:   Susan Moore <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Well, this is probably the last time I'll be sending this out. After
this annual ALA conference, the Machine-Readable Bibliographic
Information (MARBI) Committee will be disbanded. So, tune in later to
find out what happens.

In the meantime, MARBI has a fairly light schedule. There are two
proposals and two discussion papers.

Discussion paper 2013-DP05 asks about the potential usefulness of making
the first indicator in the 588 field a display constant controller. This
is the field used in serial cataloging to indicate what issue served as
the basis of the description and what the latest issue consulted was. I
imagine some may have used this field in map serial records.

Discussion paper 2013-DP06 covers an issue that came up from Proposal
2013-07 that MARBI approved at the 2013 midwinter meeting. In the
discussion on the proposal, the Subject Analysis Committee Subcommittee
on Genre/Form Implementation realized that there wasn't a way to record
chronological terms relating to the form/genre in the authorities
format. This discussion paper asks that MARBI consider adding field 388
- Chronological Term Representing Date or Time Period of Creation or
Origin of Work/Expression (R) to the authorities format.

Proposal 2013-09 calls for defining a subfield for qualifiers to
standard identifiers in the bibliographic, authority, and holdings
formats. Right now, if there's a qualifier you want to add to a ISBN, it
just follows after the ISBN in the same subfield. This causes problems
in matching on the ISBN. The proposal call for adding a $q to the 015,
020, 024 and 027 fields.

Proposal 2013-08 calls for adding a $7 to 8XX series fields to allow the
German libraries to handle series the way they do them.

The agenda for the MARBI meetings and the full papers and proposals can
be found at:
http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/an2013_age.html

Susan Moore
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA  50613
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