[Yulcat-l] FW: Music Genre/Form Project now accepting comments and suggestions

[Arakawa, Steven]

FYI

Steven Arakawa 
Catalog Librarian for Training & Documentation
Catalog & Metadata Services, SML, Yale University
P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240  
(203)432-8286 steven.arakawa at yale.edu

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From: OnLine Audiovisual Catalogers list [mailto:OLAC-LIST at LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU] On Behalf Of Beth Flood
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 2:04 PM
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Subject: Music Genre/Form Project now accepting comments and suggestions

The Music Library Association's Bibliographic Control Committee has
formed the MLA-BCC Genre/Form Task Force to work collaboratively with
the Library of Congress in developing the music portion of LC's
genre/form thesaurus.  The task force is reviewing the lists which LC
has posted to its genre/form website
(http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/genremusic.html) and making
suggestions to LC about new and existing terms.  The task force is
also gathering comments from the music community at large and from
anyone with an interest in the music genre/form project. Comments can
be made through July 1, 2009.

The task force has set up the following wiki to facilitate discussion
about the project:
http://musicgenrepublicforum.pbworks.com/   Anyone with comments or
questions about existing music genre/form/medium terms, the LC lists,
suggestions for additional terms and/or the music genre/form project
in general should feel free to share their comments via this wiki.
Instructions for setting up a pbworks account and leaving comments can
be found at: http://musicgenrepublicforum.pbworks.com/How-to-leave-comments-and-use-pbworks

The official charge of the task force is as follows: The MLA-BCC
Genre/Form Task Force will review the genre/form and medium of
performance lists posted by the LC Policy and Standards Division (PSD)
on their genre/form website.  The group will suggest additional terms
from LCSH, from other established lists (e.g., the MLA Types of
Composition list, the Ethnographic Thesaurus), and from reference
sources.  Suggestions for genre/form and medium of performance terms
will also be solicited from the MLA membership at large.  The Task
Force will vet the terms suggested by its members and by the MLA
membership and will forward these terms on to PSD for possible
inclusion in the genre/form and medium of performance lists.  The
initial phase of the project, the vetting and submission of terms,
should be completed by the end of July 2009.

Beth Flood
Chair, MLA-BCC Genre/Form Task Force
Music and Media Cataloger
Loeb Music Library, Harvard University
eflood at fas.harvard.edu