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Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee

(MARBI)

ALA Midwinter CONFERENCE

January 12-13, 2008

Philadelphia, PA

AGENDA (January 8, 2008)

Saturday, January 12, 2008, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (Holiday Inn Express Midtown, Terrace BR)

1. Introduction of members
2. Approval of minutes from MARBI's June 2007 meetings
3. Proposal 2008-01: Representation of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) System in the MARC 21 formats
4. Proposal 2008-02: Definition of field 542 for facts related to copyright status in the MARC 21 bibliographic format
5. Proposal 2008-03: Definition of first indicator value in field 041 (Language code) of the MARC 21 bibliographic format

Sunday, January 13, 2008, 1:30-3:30; 4:00-6:00 p.m. (Holiday Inn Express Midtown, Terrace BR)

1. Business Meeting
2. Reports
3. Discussion Paper 2008-DP01: Identifying headings that are appropriate as added entries, but are not used as bibliographic main entries
4. Discussion Paper 2008-DP02: Making field 440 (Series Statement/Added Entry--Title) obsolete in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format
5. Discussion Paper 2008-DP03: Definition of subfield $3 for recording information associated with series added entry fields (800-830) in the MARC 21 Bibliographic Format
6. Discussion Paper 2008-DP04: Encoding RDA, Resource Description and Access data in MARC 21

Monday, January 14, 2008 1:30-3:30 p.m. (Sheraton Philadelphia, Philadelphia BR)

1. No meeting scheduled.

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