AACR3: Resource Description and Access

1. 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

2. 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

3. Why bother? • Principle-based • Build cataloger’s judgment • Founded on international cataloging principles • Encourage applications of FRBR concepts

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

5. Targets of Strategic Plan • 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 • Reach out to other communities • Web-based version of rules

6. AACR3:Resource Description and Access • Introductions - General principles • Part I - Description • Part II - Choice of access points • Part III – Form of access points

7. 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)

8. 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

9. Reorganization of Part 1 Or, What is Happening to Chapter 12?

10. 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”

11. 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of the Rules • Applying General and Supplementary Rules • Determining the Focus for the Description • Resources in an Unpublished Form • Options and Omissions

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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?

15. Rules for Mode of Issuance in Part 1 Intro to Part 1: Determine Focus of the Description Refers to Ch. A1: Rule A1.0A1: Choose Sources of Information Refers to Ch. A2: Resources Issued in Successive Parts Ch. A3: Integrating Resources

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. Expandable GMDs (Possibilities) [text : micrographic] [music : digital] [moving image : digital] [text : digital]

22. 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

23. 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

24. AACR2(finite integrating resource) • Final AACR2 update 2005

25. JSC Public Web Site http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/index.html

26. Thank you! • Questions?