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MAC Report (Catherine Gerhart): Meeting agenda for MAC is available here. MARC Proposal no. 2017-08 proposes the use of subfields $0 and $1 to capture URIs in a manner that would differentiate between: o URIs that identify a “Record” or “Authority” entity describing a Thing and, o URIs that directly identify a Thing itself (e.g., a “real world object” or “RWO”) The $0 would be used for URIs and control numbers that refer to records describing things, and the $1 would be used for URIs that directly represent the thing itself. MARC Proposal no. 2017-09 proposes establishing a new field 758 to record identifiers for related resources. It was commented that this field could potentially be used to record OCLC record numbers, which would be useful when the data becomes mapped to BIBFRAME in a linked data environment. MARC Proposal no. 2017-10 originated from OLAC. It proposes that the definition of the 257 field be broadened to include names of entities that are not formally recognized as countries (e.g., Palestine) by certain governments or the United Nations, and yet are treated as countries of production by reference sources and award eligibility rules. The MARC Advisory Committee (MAC) has expressed concerns about offending people who may disagree about whether a geographic area is a “country.” This proposal suggests adding a disclaimer about any designations in this field not being an expression of any opinion on whether the area is a country. Doing so would be similar to disclaimers published by NISO. MARC Proposal no. 2017-11 is a joint proposal from the Canadian Committee on Metadata Exchange (CCM) and OLAC. It proposes options for recording the RDA element “Accessibility Content” (7.14). They include: defining a new field 341 for recording “the mode of access and accessibility features of a resource”, including primary and alternative modes of access, and features such as whether specialized devices are required, and recording a human readable note to provide more details regarding data recorded in the 341 field. MARC Proposal no. 2017-12 proposes defining subfields $u, $r and $z in the 777 field to enable it to link to records for individual parts of a multipart monograph. 14 | P a g e