At the end of the report are (a) a brief summary of JSC actions on the ALA proposals (6JSC/ALA/22 through 6JSC/ALA/26 and 6JSC/ALA/Discussion/1 through 6JSC/ALA/Discussion/3), and (b) a list of follow-up actions for ALA.
At ALA Midwinter 2014, CC:DA discussed CC:DA/JSC Rep/KPG/2013/5, Date of Production and Date of Manufacture elements – should a priority order be provided to prefer data in the resource itself first? One outcome of that ...
The proposed revision takes a new approach to presenting the instructions for recording sequences of plates which:
* Clarifies that this instruction applies only to plates that do not form part of either the preliminary ...
For description, RDA contains specific instructions about embedded numbering in titles (RDA 2.3.1.4, Exceptions, Date, name, number, etc., that varies from issue to issue; and RDA 2.12.2.3, Exception). In both cases, ...
Catalogers have been grappling with what constitutes “applicable and readily ascertainable” (RDA 0.6.1) in relation to the core element status associated with the “core” and “core if” elements in the Distribution and ...
RDA lacks specific instructions about converting genitive or other case forms to the nominative case when determining the title (RDA 6.2) or the name of a person, family or corporate body (RDA 8.5) or the names of places ...
The following proposal addresses the problem mentioned during that discussion, namely that RDA refers to the date in 6.24 as the “date of expression” but then gives explicit instructions to record the year of publication ...
RDA appears to leave room for interpretation about the following situation:
A manifestation has only the creator’s last name on the preferred source of information but has fuller and/or additional statements of responsibility ...
RDA lacks an instruction that allows for making a note on Identifier for the Manifestation (RDA 2.15). Under certain circumstances, catalogers may wish to provide additional information about these identifiers. Indeed, ...
Several instructions in RDA 2.17 contain an ability to record “other information relating to” a particular element. These include title, statement of responsibility and edition statement. However, the scope is more restrictive ...
RDA appears to leave room for interpretation about the following situation:
A manifestation has only the creator’s last name on the preferred source of information but has fuller and/or additional statements of responsibility ...
The Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
met in executive session in New Haven, Connecticut May 13-15, 2002. The primary
focus of this meeting was strategic planning for the JSC and AACR.
Report from The Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules meeting in York, England September 9-12, 2002. Includes a draft (Sept. 17, 2002) of the JSC’s Program of Work at the end of the ...