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 Â $aNew York $g
State if approved.
On Sunday afternoon, there's nothing specifically
geographic or cartographic.Â
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 Â 50613