Music Library AssociationFeb. 18, 2005BCC Open Meeting Development of AACR3 Kathy Glennan University of Southern California.

Music Library Association Feb. 18, 2005BCC Open Meeting

Development of AACR3

Kathy GlennanUniversity of Southern California

The Players - COP Committee of Principals

Responsible for all policies and programs relating to AACR, publication of revisions and new editions, and the affairs of its subordinate bodies

Coordinates three subordinate groups Co-Publishers of AACR Joint Steering Committee for Revision of

AACR AACR Fund Committee (Trustees)

The Players - JSC Joint Steering Committee

Responsible for reviewing the need for revisions and consolidations of AACR, preparing the text of any such revisions

Six members, representing American Library Association (CC:DA) British Library (BL) Canadian Committee on Cataloguing (CCC) Chartered Institute of Library and Information

Professionals (CILIP) Australian Committee on Cataloguing (ACOC) Library of Congress (LC)

The Players - CC:DA ALA’s Committee on Cataloging:

Description and Access (CC:DA) Responsible for developing official ALA

positions on additions to and revisions of AACR

Membership: Nine voting members, two interns Five ex-officio representatives Approximately 30 non-voting liaisons from ALA

units and from non-ALA organizations with an interest in issues of descriptive cataloging

MLA’s input via BCC Subcommittee on Descriptive

Cataloging Responsible for formulating MLA policy

on all matters related to the descriptive cataloging of music materials in libraries

Members appointed to staggered 4-year terms

Chair represents MLA at CC:DA Voice but no vote

Reporting Structure

Committee of Principals

Co-publishers of AACR

JSCAACR Fund(Trustees)

ALA(CC:DA)

ACOC BL CCC CILIP LC

MLA(SDC)

Other ALAconstituencies

AACR3: Vision The rules will:

Evolve in a timely way to meet the changing information needs of the global environment

Preserve their inherent strengths Adhere to basic principles for

bibliographic description and access Accommodate the description of

newly emerging types of material

AACR3: Purpose Simplify, clarify and update

Encourage use as a content standard for metadata schema

Improve collocation Remove redundancy

(similar to MARC format integration) Multi-national in scope Appropriate for all media Independent of communication formats

AACR3: Principles Principle-based rules

Build cataloger judgment Founded on international principles Encourage application of FRBR

concepts Enable users to find, identify, select, and

obtain resources appropriate to their information needs

International Principles International Conference on the Principles

& Future Development of AACR (Toronto, 1997)

IFLA’s Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, published in 1998

IFLA’s draft statement of international cataloguing principles, in development, 2003-07

AACR3 Development Goals The rules will continue to be based on

principles and include attributes for all types of materials

They will be used worldwide, but will be derived from English language conventions and customs

They will be easy to use and interpret They will be applicable to, and operate

in, an online, Web-based environment

AACR3 Development Goals They will provide effective

bibliographic control of all types of media (analog and digital)

They will be compatible with other standards for resource description and retrieval

They will be used beyond the library community

Working Title AACR3: Resource Description and

Access Acronym links it to the previous

editions of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules

But, at this time, “cataloguing” and “rules” are not actually part of the title

Final title not yet determined

Production of Drafts Reversal of AACR2 revision proposal

process Initiative comes from JSC Initial draft reviewed by JSC Responses from constituencies

Comment; approval; reworking Final decisions made by JSC

Constituencies not consulted on all changes

Final draft prepared

Development Plan JSC hired Tom Delsey as general

editor Editorial team creates the first drafts

for the JSC Each part of rules developed

sequentially New section to be added with the

principles of authority control (Part III), based on AACR2 Chapters 22-25

AACR3: Outline Introductions – General principles Part I – Description

Rules organized by area of description, rather than by material type

Part II – Choice of access points Part III – Form of access points

Current AACR3 TimelinePart I Part II Part III Intro.

Outline to JSC

Apr. 2004

Oct. 2004

Apr. 2005

Oct. 2005

Draft to JSC Oct. 2004

April 2005

Oct. 2005

April 2006

JSC review of comments

Apr. 2005

Oct. 2005

Apr. 2006

Oct. 2006

Final draft Apr. 2006

April 2006

Oct. 2006

Nov. 2006

Text to publishers

Dec. 2006

Publication date

June 2007 (hoping to include Web-based version)

Issues Include General & specific material designations

Combination of content and medium? Treatment of successively issued

resources Choice of primary and secondary access

points Concept of “collection” Changes in uniform titles to better

collocate works and expressions

Access to Drafts Full text limited to JSC and its

constituencies (including various task forces) Need unified responses from

constituencies quickly Copyright and intellectual property issues

Summaries of major changes available at the JSC and CC:DA websites

Additional Information JSC website:

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc Barbara Tillett’s PowerPoint presentation:

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/docs/aacr3pptjan2005.pdf

CC:DA website: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/jca/ccda/

SDC website: http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/BCC/Descriptive/Descriptive.html

Questions?