Colleagues, The report on CC:DA meetings at this year's ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans has been posted to Sherman Clarke's artcataloging.net web site here: http://artcataloging.net/ala/a11/ccda2011annual.html. Apologies for cross-posting. As you will see from the notes, RDA revisions have begun in earnest; some have been acted upon, some are still in discussion. Please feel free to contact me if you have questions about anything in the report. A summary list follows: * Report from the Library of Congress Representative, Barbara Tillett * Highlights: Transition away from MARC standard; LC to partially resume RDA cataloging, probably in autumn 2011. * Revision proposals: * RDA 9.13, Affiliation * RDA Appendix A, Capitalization * RDA 2.10.6 Date of manufacture * 'Selections' as used in RDA Chapter 6 * RDA 16.2.2.4-16.2.2.9 Places in Certain Federations * RDA Instructions for Heads of State and Heads of Government * RDA Chapter 2 changes for Container as a Source * RDA 7.24 Artistic and/or Technical Credit * Joint meeting with SAC on the treatment of "subject" in the Functional Requirements models and on subject entities in RDA * Additional Reports from: * Task Force (TF) on RDA Instructions for Governmental and Non-Governmental Corporate Bodies * TF on Machine-Actionable Data Elements in RDA Chapter 3 * MARBI Representative * RDA Programming TF * RDA Training TF * ALA Publishing Services Cheers, Dan Lipcan ARLIS/NA Liaison to CC:DA Thomas J. Watson Library The Metropolitan Museum of Art [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~