OLAC Newsletter
Vol. 29 | No. 1| March 2009

The OLAC Newsletter (ISSN: 0739-1153) is a quarterly publication of the Online Audiovisual Catalogers, Inc. appearing in March, June, September and December. Permission is granted to copy and disseminate information contained herein, provided the source is acknowledged.

In this issue

From the Editor

Treasurer's Report

OLAC Meeting Minutes:

• CAPC
• Executive Board
• Membership

Conference Reports:

• MARBI
• CC:DA
• AMIA

LC Update

MOUG/OLAC Liaison Report

Reports from the 2008 OLAC/MOUG
Conference, Part II:

Workshops:

• Elect. Resources
• Form/Genre Headings
• Integrating Resources
• Metadata for Audiovisual Materials
• Worldcat Local
• RDA Program
• Poster Sessions
  

News and Announcements

Announcement of New Officers

Book Reviews:

• Metadata
• Kidzcat

OLAC Cataloger's Judgment:

• Sounds & Silence
• Edition or contents
• Order of names in 505
• PowerPoint on CD-ROM
• Mysteries of the 007
• Which came 1st 508 or 511
• True colors
• Computer file vs. video
• Auteur theory questioned

News from OCLC

MOUG/OLAC Liaison Report
OLAC Annual Membership Meeting
January 24, 2009
Submitted by Mary Huismann
OLAC/MOUG Liaison

Introduction

The Music OCLC Users Group (MOUG) was established with the mission "to identify and provide an official means of communication and assistance for those users of the products and services of the Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC) concerned with music materials in any area of library service, in pursuit of quality music coverage in these products and services." The group's website is located at http://www.musicoclcusers.org.

Membership in MOUG is open to all individuals and institutions interested in MOUG's objectives. An application form can be found at http://www.musicoclcusers.org/
mougmembership.html. Reference and public service music users are particularly encouraged to join MOUG. MOUG members receive the MOUG Newsletter, valuable not only for organizational and OCLC news, but also for Jay Weitz's"Questions and Answers" column. Selected back columns appear on the MOUG website, and a cumulated version was published by Libraries Unlimited in 2004 (Cataloger's Judgment: Music Cataloging Questions and Answers from the Music OCLC Users Group Newsletter).

MOUG 's meeting are often held in conjunction with the annual meetings of the Music Library Association (MLA). MOUG is particularly interested in reaching non-music-specialists and 'occasional' music users of OCLC. The group is not just for catalogers—there is a very active public services component as well.

Current officers of the group include Chair Tracey Rudnick (University of Connecticut), Treasurer Deborah Morris (Roosevelt University), Secretary/Newsletter Editor Alan Ringwood (University of Texas at Austin), and Continuing Education Coordinator Bruce Evans (Baylor University).

Annual Meeting

MOUG's annual meeting is just around the corner! The meeting will take place 17-18 February 2009 at the Chicago Marriott Downtown. Registration and program information is
available at the MOUG website (http://www.musicoclcusers.org/mougmeet.html). Please note that there is an online registration option this year.

This year's meeting celebrates two anniversaries: the thirtieth anniversary of MOUG and the twentieth anniversary of the NACO Music Project. The opening plenary session is titled
"Perspectives on the Library of Congress Working Group Report Recommendations" (David Bade, University of Chicago and Tom Caw, University of Wisconsin, Madison). The plenary session will be followed by the traditional "Ask MOUG" session, led by OCLC's Jay Weitz and Michael Sarmiento. Breakout sessions will cover "Special Considerations for Cata-
loging Ethnic Music Sound Recordings" (Caitlin Hunter, LC National Audio-Visual Conservation Center) and an open Enhance session (Jay Weitz). The closing plenary session is titled"Authority Records for Public Services: Perspectives from Cataloging and Reference" (Wendy Sistrunk, University of Missouri-Kansas City and Steve Luttmann, University of Northern Colorado).

Other News from MOUG

The Best of MOUG, 8 th edition (2008, edited by Margaret Kaus) is still available! This volume contains LC Name Authority File records for many prolific composers, including CPE
Bach, JS Bach, Beethoven, Boccherini, Brahms, Clementi, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Telemann and Vivaldi. There are lists arranged by thematic catalog number for several of these composers, plus lists of English-language cross references for several Russian and Slavic composers with pointers to the authorized form and authority record control numbers. Ordering information is available at the MOUG website: http://www.musicoclcusers.org/order_form.htm

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