The first of these is Proposal 2014-04, which calls for adding a subfield for miscellaneous information to bibliographic fields 650 and 651 and to authority fields 150, 151, 450, 451, 550, 551, 750, and 751. The $g would be used to set off the qualifiers currently used to determine the type of heading the $a refers to. For example, the heading for the, there are three different headings concerning the concept of "canon": Canon (Art), Canon (Literature) and Canon (Musical form). All of these appear in the same $a. The German National Library is proposing setting the qualifier out in a separate subfield ($g) to assist in machine-parsing. The same $g would be used to handle the parenthetical qualifiers "state", "county", etc. in the geographic headings where they are appropriately used. So New York (State) would be $a New York $g (State). This parsing would not be used to separate place names used as geographical qualifiers. It would still be $a Las Vegas (Nev.).

The second proposal is to create field 388 for time period of creation in the bibliographic and authority formats. As the transition from LCSH form headings to LCGFT genre/form headings continues, certain characteristics that can currently be reflected in LCSH does not make the transistion to LCGFT. One of these is the chronological origin of the work. Creating the 338 field will allow systems to continue to use the time period a work was created as a facet.

If you'd like further details, the full agenda and links to the proposals and discussion papers can be found at http://www.loc.gov/marc/mac/an2014_age.html

Susan Moore

University of Northern Iowa

Cedar Falls, IA