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Colleagues, The report on CC:DA meetings at this year's ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim has been posted to Sherman Clarke's artcataloging.net web site here: http://artcataloging.net/ala/a12/ccdalipcan.html (Thank you, Sherman). Apologies for cross-posting. As you might guess from the notes, work on RDA has substantially increased. Please feel free to contact me if you have questions about anything in the report. Here's a brief list of highlights: Report from the Chair * New liaison appointed from ACRL's Rare Books and Manuscripts Section: Frances Lapka of the Yale Center for British Art. Report from the Library of Congress Representative, Barbara Tillett * Detailed report here: http://www.loc.gov/ala/an-2012-update.html Report of the ALA Representative to the Joint Steering Committee, John Attig * 4 main areas of JSC activity: Rewording of RDA; Compiling RDA vocabularies & metadata sets/registries; Correcting text of RDA; and Revision proposals for the November JSC meeting Revision proposals and discussion papers: * Report from the Task Force (TF) on Machine-Actionable Data Elements in RDA Chapter 3 - this is a great paper and I highly recommend reading it: http://alcts.ala.org/ccda/docs/tf-MRData3.pdf * RDA 16.2.2.4-16.2.2.9 Places in Certain Federations * RDA Chapter 2 changes for Sources of information * Report from the TF on Relationship Designators in RDA Appendix K * Report from the TF on RDA Instructions for Governmental and Non-Governmental Corporate Bodies * MLA revision proposal re: librettos, mainly RDA Chapter 6 * Revision proposal from OLAC on video encoding formats, RDA Chapter 3 * Revision proposal regarding Hearings, RDA 19.2.1.1.1 Additional Reports from various TFs and Representatives (full list on the artcataloging.net post): * RDA Planning & Training TF - see their paper for a comprehensive list of RDA webinars produced to date: http://alcts.ala.org/ccda/docs/RDATraining1206.pdf Cheers, Dan Lipcan ARLIS/NA Liaison to CC:DA Thomas J. Watson Library The Metropolitan Museum of Art [log in to unmask]<mailto:[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] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~