RSC

The Joint Steering Committee charged Jean Hirons of the Library of Congress with recommending rule revisions in support of the recommendations in the paper, “Issues Related to Seriality” presented at the Toronto Conference by Jean Hirons and Crystal Graham. The first result was a report containing specific recommendations, but without rule revision proposals; this report was submitted in April 1999 and considered at the

Initial work on RDA was based on the development of a product with the working title of “AACR3 : Resource Description and Access.” After consideration at the April 2005 meeting of the feedback from the review of the draft of part I of AACR3, the JSC decided on a change of direction.

AACR2 prefaces for 1978-1998 were not published in the 2002 revision and are provided here for information.

• 1998 revision — PDF version
• 1988 revision — PDF version
• 1978 — PDF version

• List of Changes in Amendments 2002
• List of Changes in Amendments 2003
• List of Changes in Amendments 2004
• List of Changes in Amendments 2005

For background information on RDA see the following presentation:

[Note: This is a historic document and will not be updated.]

• Work Begins on the RDA Vocabularies
• CoP Response to Library of Congress' Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
• Coordinated implementation of RDA
• A new organization for RDA