AACR3: Resource Description and Access

Update for the Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee Midwinter 2005

Jennifer Bowen, ALA Representative to the Joint Steering Committee

Jbowen@library.rochester.edu

A new edition: Why bother? Simplify

Encourage use as a content standard for metadata schema

Encourage international applicability Provide more consistency where

appropriate Improve collocation

Work/expression level citation/relationships New approach to GMDs

Why bother? Principle-based

Build cataloger’s judgment Founded on international cataloging

principles Encourage applications of FRBR concepts

Strategic Plan for AACR http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/stratplan.html

Targets of Strategic Plan

1. New edition – 2007 New Introductions

• Principles, functions of catalog, conceptual info. Content rules, updated examples Authority control FRBR terms when useful Simplify

• Reduce redundancy• Increase consistency across all types of content

2. Reach out to other communities3. Web-based version of rules

AACR3:Resource Description and Access

Introductions - General principles Part I - Description Part II - Choice of access points Part III – Form of access points

Where Are We Now?

Draft of Part 1 – Description now being reviewed

Constituency Review period now through February 14, 2005.

JSC will discuss Part 1 in April (Chicago)

ALA’s Review of the Draft of Part 1 CC:DA members/liaisons may distribute draft to

those actively involved in the review process: For example:

Serials Section: CRCC committee members CONSER: PCC representative to CC:DA

Draft is not available publicly. CC:DA background document on Part 1:

http://www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/jca/ccda/docs/chair22.pdf

Reorganization of Part 1

Or, What is Happening to Chapter 12?

AACR3 – Part I (Draft) Introduction to Part 1 Section A: General rules Section B: Supplementary rules for types of

content Section C: Supplementary rules for types of

media

No single chapter covers all “Continuing Resources”

AACR3 – Part I (Draft) Introduction to Part I

Scope Structure of the Description Organization of the Rules Applying General and Supplementary Rules Determining the Focus for the Description Resources in an Unpublished Form Options and Omissions

AACR3 – Part I (Draft)Continued Section A: General Rules

A1: General Rules for Description• Preliminary Rules• Rules for each of the 8 ISBD areas• Multimedia Resources• Analytics • Multilevel Descriptions

A2: Resources Issued in Successive Parts A3: Integrating Resources

AACR3 - Part I (Draft)Mode of Issuance Considered a general characteristic of a

resource so belongs in the General Rules Builds on information in Part 1

Introduction (Focus for the Description) Same chapters used for both finite or

continuing resources All resources issued over time

Introduction to Part 1:Focus for the Description

What are you cataloging… Single-part resource? Two or more parts issued simultaneously? Resource issued in successive parts? Integrating resource? Separately titled component part? Assembled collection?

Intro to Part 1: Determine Focus of the Description

Ch. A1: Rule A1.0A1: Choose Sources of Information

Ch. A2: Resources Issued in Successive Parts

Ch. A3: Integrating Resources

Refers to

Refers to

Rules for

Mode of Issuance in Part

1

Rules Related to Mode of Issuance in Part I (Draft) Intro to Part 1: Focus of the Description Section A: General Rules

• A1: General Rules for Description• Preliminary Rules (chief source of information)• Rules for each of the 8 ISBD areas• Multimedia Resources• Analytics • Multilevel Descriptions

A2: Resources Issued in Successive Parts A3: Integrating Resources

AACR3 – Part I (Draft)

Introduction to Part 1 Section A: General rules Section B: Supplementary rules for types

of content Section C: Supplementary rules for types

of media

AACR3 - Part I (Draft) Section B: Content Chapters B1: Text B2: Music B3: Cartographic

Resources B4: Graphics B5: 3-dimensional

Resources B6: Sound B7: Moving Images

AACR3 - Part I (Draft)Section C: Types of Media C1: Print and graphic

media C2: Micrographic

media C3: Tactile media C4: Three-dimensional

media C5: Audio media C6: Projected graphic,

film, video media C7: Digital media

Part 1 (Draft): Some Changes in Cataloging Practice Numbering Area (Area 3) expanded for

use for all materials issued with numbered issues or parts

GMD: indicate content, carrier, or both Technical Description (formerly physical

description): more consistency Physical units vs. presentation units Tables accompanying general rules

Expandable GMDs (Possibilities)

[text : micrographic]

[music : digital]

[moving image : digital]

[text : digital]

Next Steps: More AACR3 Drafts for Review Part II (Draft) – May 2005

Choice of primary/secondary access points for resources

Choice of primary/secondary access points for works/expressions

Part III (Draft) – Nov. 2005 Form of access points Current Ch. 22-25 incorporating authority

control principles, rules on references

AACR3 Timeline (Proposal) Dec. 2004 Draft Pt. 1 May 2005 Draft Pt. 2 Nov. 2005 Draft Pt. 3 Apr. 2006 Finalize Pt. 1-2 Oct. 2006 Finalize Pt. 3 Nov. 2006 Finalize Introductions Dec. 2006 Text to publishers June 2007 Publication release

AACR2(finite integrating resource)

Final AACR2 update 2005

JSC Public Web Site

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/index.html

Thank you!

Questions?