ALCTS/LITA/RUSA
Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee
(MARBI)

ALA MIDWINTER CONFERENCE
January 14-19, 2005
Boston, MA

AGENDA ( January 13, 2005 )

Saturday, January 15, 2005, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (Boston Park Plaza, Imperial Ballroom)

1. Introduction of members
2. Approval of minutes from MARBI's June 2004 meetings
3. Proposal 2005-03: Definition of Subfield $2 and Second Indicator value 7 in Fields 866-868 (Textual Holdings) of the MARC 21 Holdings Format.
4. Proposal 2005-04: Hierarchical Geographic Names in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format.
5. Proposal 2005-02: Definition of Subfield $y in Field 020 (International Standard Book Number) and Field 010 (Library of Congress Control Number) in the MARC 21 Formats.
6. Proposal 2005-01: Definition of Field 766 in the MARC 21 Classification Format
7. Proposal 2005-05: Change of Unicode mapping for the Extended Roman alif character.
8. Business Meeting
• Library of Congress Report
• CC:AAM motion to urge MARBI to expand the Character Repertoire to include the Unicode Universal Character Set (UCS) beyond that included in the MARC-8 subset
• Interns
• Joint meeting with CC:DA at the 2005 Annual Meeting

Sunday, January 16, 2005 2:00-4:00 p.m. (Boston Marriott Copley, Grand Ballroom F)

1. Discussion Paper 2005-DP01: Subject Access to Images
2. Other items not discussed on January 15.

• List of Proposals
• List of Discussion Papers
• MARC Home Page
• Library of Congress Home Page