Theological catalogers appreciate the JSC invitation to participate in the development of the new code. Over the last week there has been a spirited discussion of rules 21.37–21.39, regarding their necessity and ...
Below is a summary of positions indicating agreement and disagreement on the part of the three organizations asked to reconcile differences of opinion. Due to the absence of the representative from the Association of Jewish ...
Shortly after the release of RDA it became apparent that there were some difficulties with
the rules for both the Apocrypha and for Apocryphal books. In the case of the former,
the full application of 5JSC/LC/8 was not ...
Next week CC:DA will have on its agenda the revisions to Chapter 9, as further revised by the
Joint Steering Committee and with additional suggestions by the Library of Congress. Some of
these suggestions are rather ...
Having served on both the CC:DA Task Force that prepared the revisions to Chapter
9 and the CONSER Task Force that worked with Jean Hirons on the Chapter 12
revisions, I knew that the two sets of revisions overlap in ...
As the CC:DA Task Force continues its work towards a separate publication of the guidelines on when to make a new record, ALA would like to suggest that JSC begin considering the text of the basic guidelines and its placement ...
At the Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials Conference, attention was drawn to the strange case of rule 2.5C3 and the Glossary definition of Coloured illustration. Rule 2.5C3 instructs the cataloger to “Describe coloured ...
The discussion of 4JSC/ALA/51 at the September JSC meeting in Brisbane produced no decision but a number of suggestions. There seem to be quite a few options, which are listed below with comments.
The concept of common usage is central to the discussion of SMDs. However, no definition of the concept has been offered. In the course of our discussions, we have discovered to our sorrow that common usage is not an easy ...
In response to proposals from the CC:DA Task Force on Consistency across Part 1 of AACR, the Joint Steering Committee asked ALA to prepare a discussion paper on revisions to the rules for early printed monographs in Chapter ...
Council on East Asian Libraries, Committee on Technical Processing: Proposed addition of RDA 16.2.2.11, "Places in China", and related editorial corrections.