Announcements and Reports

CC:DA Meetings at the 2007 ALA Midwinter Meeting
Seattle, WA, January 20 and 22, 2007

Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access

• Saturday, January 20, 1:30 - 6:00 PM
  Crowne Plaza Seattle, Evergreen Ballroom
• Monday, January 22, 8:00 AM - 12:30 PM
  Crowne Plaza Seattle, Evergreen Ballroom

Task Force to Review the Statement of International Cataloguing Principles

• Friday, January 19, 3:00 - 5:00 PM
  Crowne Plaza Seattle, Evergreen Ballroom

Open Forum on RDA: Resource Description and Access

• Saturday, January 20, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
  Sheraton Seattle, Grand Ballroom B

CC:DA Activities at ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle

The Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA) will meet twice at ALA Midwinter in Seattle. Both meetings will be in the Crowne Plaza Seattle, Evergreen Ballroom. In addition, there will be an RDA Update Forum at which Jennifer Bowen, the ALA Representative to the Joint Steering Committee, will report on progress with the new cataloging code.

On Saturday, January 20, 1:30-6:00 p.m., the main agenda item until about 3:30 p.m. will be the report of the ALA Representative to Joint Steering Committee, who will report on the October JSC meeting. The ALCTS RDA Update Forum will be between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m., in the Sheraton Seattle, Grand Ballroom B. Meanwhile, CC:DA will continue to meet, hearing reports from two Task Forces and considering the future of four Task Forces; in addition, Betty Landesman, ALA Representative to NISO, will present a report.

On Monday, January 22, 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m., the main agenda item will be discussion on the development of RDA. In addition, CC:DA will hear from Donald Chatham, of ALA Publishing Services, on the development of RDA Online; and from Everett Allgood, the MARBI representative; and will consider a proposal from the Music Library Association.

For further details and links to the documents, see the Agenda for the meeting.

Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR Meets in Washington, DC.

The Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR, chaired by Deirdre Kiorgaard (Australia Committee on Cataloguing), met in Washington, DC, October 16-20, 2006. The Committee reviewed the development process for RDA: Resource Description and Access and discussed responses to drafts of Part A of RDA; most of the discussion was devoted to Chapter 3, Carrier. A report of the outcomes of the meeting and a draft agenda are available on the JSC website.

RDA: Resource Description and Access Open Forum at ALA Midwinter in Seattle

You are cordially invited to attend the Resource Description and Access (RDA) Update Forum at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle. This open question and answer session about Resource Description and Access (RDA) is sponsored by the ALCTS Cataloging and Classification Section.

The RDA Update Forum is scheduled for Jan. 20th, Saturday from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm in the Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Grand BR B.

Three presenters will speak briefly about various aspects of RDA development.

• Beacher Wiggins on RDA from the point-of-view of the AACR Committee of Principals
• Marjorie Bloss on RDA from the point-of-view of the RDA Project Director
• Jennifer Bowen on RDA from the point-of-view of the ALA Representative to the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR

After they’ve spoken, the rest of the time will be open to your questions.

The presentations have been posted on the JSC website in PDF format:

• Notes from the talk by Beacher Wiggins
• RDA and Project Management by Marjorie Bloss [PowerPoint slides]
• Content Update by Jennifer Bowen [PowerPoint slides]

RDA: Resource Description and Access revised draft of Chapter 3 available for comment

A revised draft of part A, chapter 3 (Carrier) of RDA is now available for comment. The draft also includes revisions to Chapter 4, Content, which are related to Chapter 3, and a glossary of terms used to record Media type, Carrier type, and Content type. A cover letter explains the background to the revision and gives guidelines for commenting; it also poses a number of specific questions for comment. To assist in the evaluation of the draft, appendices to the cover letter give a set of examples based on the draft, and mappings of the data elements from MARC 21 to RDA and from RDA to MARC 21 for those elements covered in the draft.

The draft is available at http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/5rda-parta-ch3rev.pdf

In addition, a revised version of the RDA Prospectus has been prepared, and is available at: Prospectus for RDA

The deadline for comments to the JSC is July 16, 2007, to allow time for the comments to be compiled for consideration by the JSC at their meeting on October 2007. There is also an open RDA discussion list for issues related to the development of RDA.

Comments on the draft from within the United States should be submitted to the ALA/ALCTS/CCS Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA). To make comments, please use this comment form. The deadline for submission of these comments is May 14, 2007, in order to allow them to be incorporated into the ALA response by July 16.

The draft will most likely be the subject of discussion at CC:DA meetings at the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC. Watch the CC:DA website for more information.

New Task Forces Appointed

The Task Force to Review the Statement of International Cataloguing Principles was appointed in December 2006. It is charged to prepare an interim review on the draft Statement of International Cataloguing Principles; to report to CC:DA on any significant differences between the Statement and the drafts of Resource Description and Access (RDA); and to draft the CC:DA response when the Statement is circulated for worldwide review.

The Task Force on CC:DA’s Internal and External Communication was appointed in February 2007. The Task Force is charged to assess the nature and content of CC:DA’s communication with the ALCTS/CCS membership and the cataloging community within the United States, as well as the functional requirements for the internal communication that supports the work of the committee. The Task Force was asked to make recommendations regarding changes to the internal communication structures for consideration by CC:DA at the 2007 Annual Conference.