CC:DA/Attig/2000/1 Revisions to Chapter 9 of AACR2

Abstract

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 significant, and may require extensive discussion. In order to do some preliminary work, members of the old Task Force on the Harmonization of ISBD(ER) and AACR — and Adam Schiff, who was not a member of the Task Force, but whom we adopted — have been discussing some of these issues. What follows is a discussion paper, with (in some cases) specific rule revision proposals. The issues covered are: A. Harmonization B. Area 3 C. Area 5 D. Resource identifiers E. Mode of access notes In some cases, there was consensus among those involved in the discussion; in other cases, there were different points of view — which are reflected below. We offer these ideas in the hope that they will prove useful in CC:DA’s deliberations on Chapter 9 in Chicago.