Dear all

All the MARBI papers which will be discussed at the ALA Midwinter meetings, 24-26 January 2009 are now available.

Proposal No. 2009-02: Definition of new codes for legal deposits in 008/07 (Method of Acquisition) in the MARC 21 Holdings Format

Proposal No. 2009-03: Definition of field 080 in the MARC 21 Authority Format

Proposal No. 2009-04: Addition of Codes for Map Projections in 008/22-23 (Maps) in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format

Discussion Paper No. 2009-DP02: Definition of field 588 for metadata control note in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format

Proposal No. 2009-05: Adding subfield $u for Uniform Resource Identifier to field 510 (Citation/References note) of the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format

Discussion Paper No. 2009-DP03: Changing field 257 (Country of producing entity for archival films) of the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format to include non-archival materials

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RDA Proposals:

Proposal No. 2009-01/1: New data elements in the MARC 21 Authority Format

Proposal No. 2009-01/2: New content designation for RDA elements: Content type, Media Type, Carrier Type in the MARC 21 Formats

Proposal No. 2009-01/3: Identifying work, expression and manifestation records in the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority Formats

RDA Discussion Papers:

Discussion Paper No. 2009-DP01/1: Encoding URIs for controlled values in MARC records

Discussion Paper No. 2009-DP01/2: Relationship Designators for RDA Appendix J and K

If you have any comments, please post them to the MARC Forum (MARC@LOC.GOV). Thank you.

Best regards

Corine

BL & UK representative on the MARC Advisory Committee

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Corine Deliot

Metadata Development Officer

The British Library

Boston Spa, Wetherby

West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ

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