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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

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