ISSN Review Group’s proposals approved by MARC Advisory Committee (MAC)

The ISSN Review Group, represented officially by Regina Romano Reynolds, Director of ISSN USA, Library of Congress, with assistance from Deanna White, Project Officer at ISSN International Centre, presented two proposals to the MARC Advisory Committee (MAC) meeting, held on 26 January 2021. Ms Reynolds is the ISSN’s long-standing voting member of MAC and valued MARC expert.  The proposals can be read on the MAC website regarding the type of continuing resource: https://www.loc.gov/marc/mac/2021/2021-03.html  and regarding the subfields added to field 022 (ISSN):  https://www.loc.gov/marc/mac/2021/2021-04.html .

As a result, newly defined values for the type of continuing resources code will be useful for faceting and statistical reporting in the ISSN Portal; also, a URI subfield in the ISSN field (022) will serve as an authoritative work identifier for the serial in linked data.