MLA Annual Meeting 2015, Denver, Colorado Summary written by Charles Peters, Indiana University Session presenters: Beth Iseminger, Harvard University; Casey Mullin, Stanford University; Hermine Vermeij, UCLA; Kevin Kishimoto, University of Chicago This session was sponsored by the MLA-BCC Subject Access Subcommittee and Genre/Form Task Force. The presentation included a discussion of ongoing developments in music vocabularies which could make finding and selecting music resources with online library catalogs easier and more efficient for users and public service staff. A summary follows; the full session can be viewed here: http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/page/mla_2015_media Catalog searching / Kevin Kishimoto In library catalogs there are four general techniques used in searching for resources: browse, keyword single box, advanced keyword, and facets. The techniques complement one another in that they allow the user to approach the search from a variety of perspectives, using a single one or combining them, depending on what information is already known and

Co-Sponsored by MOUG and MLA-BCC MOUG Meeting 2015, Denver, Colorado Summary by Sarah Hess Cohen, Florida State University The 2015 MOUG annual meeting opened with a four-hour workshop on two new Library of Congress thesauri now available for music catalogers: the LC Genre/Form Thesaurus (LCGFT) and the LC Medium of Performance Thesaurus for Music (LCMPT). Presenters of the session were: Beth Iseminger (Harvard University), Thomas Pease (Library of Congress), Kevin Kishimoto (University of Chicago), Casey Mullin (Stanford University), Hermine Vermeij (UCLA), and Janis Young (Library of Congress), as well as Nancy Lorimer (Stanford University), who contributed to the presentation but was unable to attend. For further details, references, and examples beyond this summary, please see the presentation slides, which are available at: http://www.musicoclcusers.org/mougmeetings/2015meeting/2015presentations.html. First, an overview of the Genre/Form Thesaurus project: Many current Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH) headings used to describe music materials are not truly topical, but

MLA Annual Meeting 2015, Denver, Colorado Summary written by Elizabeth Cribbs, Northern Illinois University Session presenters: Kimmy Szeto, Baruch College CUNY; Casey Mullin and Nancy Lorimer, Stanford University; Michael Colby, UC-Davis This session, sponsored by the MLA Bibliographic Control Committee, explored the current status of Bibliographic Framework Initiative otherwise known as BIBFRAME and what certain groups are learning about how it might work. The full session can be viewed here: http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/page/mla_2015_media Kimmy Szeto, chair of the BIBFRAME Task Force, first provided an overview of what BIBFRAME hopes to accomplish and where the BIBFRAME Task Force is in that process. He began with an explanation of the four building blocks required for cataloging systems to work: content standards, schema, serialization, and exchange systems. BIBFRAME is designed to replace MARC (our current schema) by breaking the information that currently comprises our bibliographic records apart into atomic units that can then be reconfigured