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 ...
ALA does not agree with the removal of the “introductory words” instruction in RDA 2.3.0.5. Our disagreement is based on our sense that the removal of this instruction would yield unsatisfactory results, particularly for ...
This report is divided into two parts: covering what was decided at the April JSC meeting (with an addendum of decisions made since the April meeting) and then what will happen next. Most of the main issues with RDA have ...
The meeting of the Joint Steering Committee in Chicago, March 12–20, 2009, was the final opportunity to make decisions on the text of RDA to be included in the initial release. All issues had to be resolved by the end of ...
On January 16, 2010, the Committee on Cataloguing: Description and Access reviewed the list of “Issues deferred until after the first release of RDA” (5JSC/Sec/6/Rev). Discussion concentrated on the issues that ALA had ...
The basic proposal here is to split the Affiliation element into three sub-elements:
* Affiliated Body
* Position within Affiliated Body
* Date of Affiliation
In 6JSC/CILIP/2/ALA response, ALA noted that it is quite common for more than one
treaty between the same parties to be signed in the same year; it is not unusual for more
than one treaty between the same parties to be ...
Contents notes and accompanying material statements raise issues relating to the
mapping of RDA to the ISBD, as well as to MARC 21. In the case of contents notes,
there are at least examples to indicate the appropriate ...