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Last modified: September 3, 2004.
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Kathy Winzer
The publication providing guidelines for when to create a new record: Differences Between, Changes Within was finally published. It is now available on the ALCTS website, free for download to ALCTS members. Printed copies are also available and can be ordered from ALCTS. A new task force has been given the charge to keep this publication up-to-date as the descriptive cataloging rules evolve and change. As new versions are posted on the Web site, the updates will be widely announced.
This year the committee sponsored a preconference entitled: Back to the Future: Understanding the Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records Model (FRBR) and Its Impact on Users, OPACs, and Knolwdge Organization. The program was well attended and received excellent reviews from attendees.
Matthew Beacom is chair of a committee to develop a program on AACR3 for ALA annual 2005. You may want to attend ALA annual in Chicago next summer for full details on AACR3. Another task force was formed to develop a program to introduce the new publication, Cataloging Cultural Objects.
The 2004 rule revisions are out and in the warehouses for distribution. The 2005 rule revisions are still in discussion and revision, but include one that will change the way we capitalize single letters used to represent words and also multiple letter prefixes in compound terms. A revision was issued July 5, with responses due by Sept. 20. The ALA revised proposal on coloured illustrations was finally agreed to with amendments. The proposal to change Rule A.40 German orthography will be in the 2005 package, confirming non-capitalization of "acht". Deletion of the Turkish word "bir" from the list of articles in Appendix E was approved. A proposed revision on designations of function is also being discussed, with responses due by Sept. 20.
Barbara Tillett of the Library of Congress reported on the international effort to develop an International Cataloging Code. A meeting of experts took place in Germany last year and worked toward the goal of increasing the ability to share cataloging information worldwide by promoting standards for the content of bibliographic and authority records used in library catalogs. A draft Statement of International Cataloguing Principles, 19 December 2003, was produced. A link to the draft statement is also available on the CC:DA site http://www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/jca/ccda/.
In April 2004 the Joint Steering Committee (JSC) decided to go forward with a third edition of the Anglo American Cataloging Rules (AACR), with a mid-2007 production goal. Much of the focus for CC:DA this past year involved the preliminary work leading to the new edition, but the volume of work needed for a new edition is more than the constituencies can provide. Therefore, an editor will soon be hired to manage the project, and the role of the constituencies (of which CC:DA is one) will be to respond to the proposals and drafts written by the editor and the JSC. Because a new edition is on the horizon, 2005 rule revisions are the last to be made to AACR2.
The JSC affirmed the general principle of using in AACR3 the most specific Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records (FRBR) term possible, and to use the term "resource" when specific terms cannot be used. The incoming editor is charged with continuing the work to incorporate FRBR terminology and concepts throughout AACR3. This year much of the discussion centered on incorporating FRBR terminology into the appendices and providing glossary definitions.
Overall. The new edition will contain three main parts: part I rules for description, part II rules for choice of access points, and part III rules for form of access points, with a new section on authority control. A general introduction will be written after the three parts are completed. A new approach to successively issued resources is being considered to facilitate cataloging and end-user tasks (currently in Chapter 12). Chapter 25 will be extensively re-written to reform the "uniform title" concept and develop headings for works and expressions, enabling better collocation of works and expressions.
Part One. The JSC decided on an outline for part one:
Task Force on Consistency across Part I of AACR2
Much of the work of CC:DA is done by Task Forces who provide proposals and drafts for the JSC to consider. One of the most active groups this year is the Task Force on Consistency across Part I of AACR2, which produced a prototype of Part I that illustrates the changes we may see in the new edition. The prototype, together with many other documents from this task force and others is available on the CC:DA web page: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/jca/ccda/. Last year the JSC discussed the latest task force proposals on ISBD areas 2 (Edition), 3 (Material specific details), 4 (Publication, etc.). The ALA Task Force will prepare a proposal on area 5 (Physical description) for discussion prior to the October 2004 meeting.
JSC decided to discharge the Joint ALA/BL Task Force to Reconceptualize Chapter 9, as the proposed reorganisation of part I will make it possible for cataloguers to select rules which are relevant to describe all aspects of a resource (i.e. content, carrier, and issuance).
Part 3, Authority Control. The Library of Congress revised their proposal for the incorporation of authority control in AACR. Extensive discussion about the proposal took place, and many suggestions for improvement were made. There is agreement that authority control should be incorporated into AACR, but not always a clear consensus on how that should be done. Another area still in the discussion phase is how to deal with multipart monographs and monographic series in AACR. British and U.S. catalogers differ in outlook on how to treat this type of material. CC:DA noted that we need to move foreword by reaching common agreement on what is meant by terms such as collection, multipart monograph, monographic series; vocabulary differences are seen as the easiest difficulty to overcome. JSC discussed the sixth interim report of the Format Variation Working Group, which contained the draft of new rules for chapter 25 (uniform titles). The draft rules allowed for the creation of identifiers for works and expressions. At the meeting the JSC decided that continuing work on chapter 25 would be folded into the work on authority control, under the direction of the Editor.
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