1. MARC 21 Update CIG Standards Forum 3rd September 2008
Corine Deliot
Metadata Development Officer
Collection Acquisition & Description

2. Presentation Overview
Brief overview of how MARC 21 is maintained
ALA Annual Conference
RDA papers
Non-RDA papers
Making the 440 obsolete
Other papers

3. MARBI 2008 – Annual meeting
Machine Readable Bibliographic Information committee
28th-30th June 2008 ALA Annual Conference, Anaheim, California.
BIC Bibliographic Standards Group
19th January 2008

4. RDA Proposals RDA/MARC Working Group established in March 2008.
Starting point: 2008-DP04 Encoding RDA, Resource Description and Access data in MARC
Four proposals put forward; four discussion papers.
/1: Encoding RDA: Introduction and Principles
/2: Identifying work and expression records in the MARC 21 Bibliographic format

5. RDA Proposals
/3: New content designation for RDA elements: Content type, Media type, Carrier type
/4: Enhancing field 502 (Dissertation note) of the MARC 21 Bibliographic format  (as amended)
creation of new subfields to record degree type, name granting institution, year degree granted, dissertation number, miscellaneous information
2nd indicator not defined
Dissertation number renamed dissertation identifier

6. RDA Discussion Papers
2008-DP05/1: Using RDA relationship designators between names and resources with MARC 21 records
2008-DP05/2: New data elements in the MARC 21 Authority Format
2008-DP05/3: Treatment of controlled lists of terms and coded data in RDA and MARC 21
2008-DP05/4: Items not requiring MARC 21 format changes for RDA

7. Proposal
: Making field 440 (Series Statement/Added Entry Title) obsolete in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format
Making 440 obsolete
Redefining 490 1st indicator value 1 as “series traced in 8XX”
For
440 - only MARC 21 field performing dual function: transcription and access.
Makes training easier
Makes retrospective series authority control easier

8. Proposal 2008-07 Against: Policy decision Legacy data
Duplication of data
Decision: 440 is now obsolete
490 1st indicator value 1 redefined as “series traced in 8XX”
Implementation

9. Other Papers
: Changes to Nature of entire work and Nature of content codes in field 008 of the MARC 21 Bibliographic format  (as amended)
: Adding information associated with the Series Added Entry fields ( ) 
: Definition of subfield $z in field 017 of the MARC 21 Bibliographic and addition of the field to the MARC 21 Holdings formats 

10. Other Papers
: Definition of Videorecording format codes in field 007/04 of the MARC 21 bibliographic format  (as amended)
: Definition of a subfield for Other standard number in field 534 of the MARC 21 bibliographic format  (as amended)
2008-DP06: Coding deposit programs as methods of acquisitions in field 008/07 of the MARC 21 holdings format

11. And finally … If you would like to propose changes to the MARC format,
If you would like to contribute to the discussions, post to the MARC Forum at
Thank you. Any questions?