The criteria for the Ralph Papakhian Travel Grant is being revised. In the past, this award was only given to MOUG members who had never before attended a MOUG Conference. This will now no longer be required, although first-time attendees will still be preferred among other applicants. A switch from print to online format is being investigated for the MOUG newsletter. The MOUG Reference Services Committee has been renamed to the Reference, Discovery and Collection Committee. Alan Ringwood is now the chair of the executive board of MOUG, while Casey Mullins is the past chair. Subcommittee, Coordinator Reports: • NACO AV Funnel Coordinator Report (Bruce for Peter Lisius): Peter Lisius is reviewing the work of three catalogers from the University of Alabama, the University of California-Riverside, and the University of California at Wilmington. The new PCC directory is expected to be published in spring. The NACO-AV roster will be synchronized with this directory. The list of AV and music-related tools and resources for authority work is being examined to see if the links are up-to-date. The annotations for the print resources will be kept as they are. •
RDA Standing Subgroup (Netanel Ganin) The members of this subgroup are: Netanel Ganin, Greta de Groat, Yoko Kudo and Anna Goslen. They are tasked with ensuring that the OLAC Best Practices guides are up-to-date with revisions from the RDA Steering Committee (RSC). The members have divided up guides to revise among themselves. Their target dates for completing their revisions are the following: • • •
July 17th – DVD/Blu-ray best practices October 17th – Video game best practices December 17th – Streaming media best practices
Their goal is to revise all the above documents so that the Unified Best Practices Task Force may combine them after the 3R project is complete.
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