Announcements and Reports

CC:DA Meetings at the 2008 ALA Annual Conference
Anaheim, CA, June 28-30, 2008

Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access

• Saturday, June 28, 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
  Crowne Plaza Mazatian Ballroom B/C
  
• Monday, June 30 8:00 AM - 12:30 PM
  Crowne Plaza Mazatian Ballroom B/C

Other meetings/programs of interest:

• RDA Update Forum
  Saturday, June 28, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
  Marriott, Salon E
• Getting Ready for RDA and FRBR: What You Need to Know
  Saturday, June 28, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
  Anaheim Convention Center 204 B
• RDA Implementation Task Force
  Sunday, June 29, 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
  Hyatt Regency Orange County Harbor Room

CC:DA Activities at ALA Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA

The Committee on Cataloging: Description & Access (CC:DA) will meet twice at the 2008 ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim.

-- Saturday, June 28, 2008, 1:30-5:30 p.m., Crowne Plaza Resort, Mazatlan BR B/C

-- Monday, June 30, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Crowne Plaza Resort, Mazatlan BR B/C

Please note that the Fri., June 27, 2008 Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access Meeting on RDA Draft listed in ALA’s Event Planner will NOT be held as there is no draft out for review at this time.

On Saturday the main agenda item will be the report of the ALA Representative to the Joint Steering Committee, who will present his report on the April 2008 JSC meeting; that item will be followed by the report of the Library of Congress Representative. Later CC:DA will hear reports from Cindy Hepfer, ALA Representative to NISO, and David Miller, Chair of the ALCTS Task Group on the LC Working Group Report. The last item of the day will be a discussion of the Report of the Task Force to Review the Statement of International Cataloguing Principles.

On Monday CC:DA will hear reports from Donald Chatham, of ALA Publishing Services; Shawne Miksa, Chair of the RDA Implementation Task Force; Everett Allgood, MARBI representative; Peter Fletcher, representative of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging's Standing Committee on Standards; Laura Smart, Chair of the Task Force on CC:DA’s Internal and External Communication; and Patricia Hatch, CC:DA Webmaster.

For those primarily interested in RDA, the RDA Update Forum will be held Saturday, June 28, 10:30 am-noon in the Anaheim Marriott, Salon E and the program “Getting Ready for RDA and FRBR: What You Need to Know” will be held Saturday, June 28, 4-5:30 pm, in the Anaheim Convention Center, Room 204B.

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

CC:DA Public, Read-Only Email Discussion List

CC:DA announces a public, read-only email discussion list to allow non-CC:DA members to view committee work that takes place between the ALA Annual Conference and ALA Midwinter Meeting.

In order for the committee to do its work efficiently, non-CC:DA members will be able read CC:DA email, but will not be able to post messages. However, ideas and comments on discussions are welcome, and can be funneled to the list through your CC:DA representative or liaison via the committee roster.

To subscribe to the list, send an email to sympa@ala.org with the phrase "subscribe rules" in the subject line and the body of the message blank. Your email address will be captured automatically.

To unsubscribe (i.e., remove your email address) from the Rules list, send an email to: sympa@ala.org with "unsubscribe rules" in the subject line and leaving the body of the message blank. Your email address will be matched from the header of the message so you must use the address from which you subscribed.

For more information about the list, go to: http://lists.ala.org/sympa/info/rules.

Joint Steering Committee to Meet in Chicago April 13-22, 2008

The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA will meet in Chicago, Illinois from Sunday April 13 to Tuesday April 22, 2008.

For more information, including the meeting agenda, see the meeting announcement.