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RDA Training Materials from JSC Constituencies

AUSTRALIA The training documentation used by the National Library of Australia for the RDA train-the-trainer courses held in late 2012 is now published on the ACOC Website (http://www.nla.gov.au/acoc/training-materials-for-resource-description-and-access). These training materials are freely available to be used by individuals or institutions for information, background or for use in training. These documents are available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia license. Use of these materials should be attributed as follows:

"New" JSC Members

Christine Frodl and Kevin Marsh joined the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) in January 2012. Kevin Marsh replaced Deirdre Kiorgaard as the representative of the Australian Committee on Cataloguing (ACOC). In December 2012, David Reser replaced Barbara Tillett as the Library of Congress representative to the JSC. Information about these three JSC members is belatedly given below. = = = = =

2012 Approved RDA Proposals

The final versions of the proposals approved by the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA during and after its November 2012 meeting have been posted on this web site. See the "Sec final" documents listed in the table of new working documents or consult a specific proposal in the constituency proposals section.

Revising AACR2 to Accommodate Seriality

  • Revising AACR2 to Accommodate Seriality

    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

  • AACR3

  • AACR3

    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.