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
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):
Cheers,
Dan Lipcan
ARLIS/NA Liaison to CC:DA
Thomas J. Watson Library
The Metropolitan Museum of Art