Dear colleagues,
In case you haven't already seen it, the JSC October 2007 "Outcomes"
document is now available. This represents the points of agreement as
they currently stand among the major RDA constituencies.
The biggest news for the general cataloging community may be the
decision to reorganize the structure of RDA more along the lines of
FRBR (without, presumably, needing to extend the 2009 publication date).
Of particular interest to this list, perhaps, is the section under
Access Point Control regarding Bible Uniform Titles. JSC members have
agreed on the following points (originally proposed in
<http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/working2.html#lc-8>5JSC/LC/8):
* The Old and New Testaments will be referred to by their spelled
out forms, not the existing AACR2 abbreviations "O.T." and "N.T."
* Access points for individual books of the Bible will use the
name of the book immediately following "Bible" rather than
interposing the name of the appropriate Testament.
* Access points in the form "Bible. Old Testament", "Bible. New
Testament", and "Bible. Apocrypha" will be used to identify those
groupings of the Bible as aggregate works.
There is also something here about the effect IME ICC draft
<http://www.nl.go.kr/icc/icc/papers.php>Statement of International
Cataloguing Principles section 5.2.4 (Forms of Uniform titles) will
have on RDA. For a discussion of why it might be problematic, see,
e.g.,
<http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/working2.html#ciliprep-1>5JSC/CILIP rep/1
--Daniel
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:57:03 -0500
From: John Attig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [RDA-L] Outcomes of the October 2007 Joint Steering Committee meeting
Outcomes of the October 2007 meeting of the Joint Steering Committee
for Development of RDA have been mounted on the JSC Web site:
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/0710out.html
The Outcomes outline a new organization for RDA which has been agreed
to by the Joint Steering Committee and the Committee of
Principals. Further information on the organization has also been
posted on the JSC Web site. New sections of RDA will be issued for
review in December 2007.
John Attig
for the Joint Steering Committee
Daniel Lovins
Hebraica Team Leader
Catalog & Metadata Services
Sterling Memorial Library
Yale University
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