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"records" can be easily converted to MARC in the
future. There are just too many large collections of unique materials
that need some sort of access, and
sometimes in-house database
finding aids are the only short-term solution.
As there was to be a
session at the full meeting of MLA Midwest members on digitized
collections, in-depth discussion of this next agenda item was to be postponed
for then. However, Wendy asked Committee members to think of what
digitized collections meant for cataloging regarding issues of access,
etc. Many public services librarians are getting "scanning
fever" and wanting to mount lots of images of materials on their
library web pages. It is nice when cataloging can be a part of the
process and provide hot links directly to the bibliographic record in
the library OPAC. Can catalogers be part of the design
team to
organize these digitized collections? Also, there are a lot of things
going on in video through the Internet which have potential to bleed
over into music. Who is going to archive these files?
Mark Scharff,
Washington University at St. Louis, asked if Committee members had heard
of the Library of Congress project to convert *all* music genre subject
headings from 650 to 655. Music, with its many genre headings, is
expected to be one of the first sections to be converted at LC, as early
as December 2000. No one had heard of this, but we are expected to stay
tuned. This has very large repercussions on database maintenance.
The Committee meeting ended with everyone going around and updating
members on what was new at their libraries. A very busy group!
At
the close of the meeting, Wendy handed over the "box of stuff"
to the new chair, Patty Falk of Bowling Green University.
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