Feb. 18, 2005

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AACR3 Summary of Part I Draft(and a glimpse
into Parts II and III)

• Kathy Glennan
• University of Southern California

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Caveat

• This summary covers a draft document, which is
  under consideration by the JSC constituencies
  right now
• CCDA has substantial comments on the
  organization and contents of this draft
• JSC will meet in April to review all the comments
  and will direct the creation of a new draft so
  specifics may change!

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Organization of the Rules Section A

• General Rules
• General Rules for Description (A1)
• Apply to all types of resources
• Resources Issued in Successive Parts (A2)
• Includes multipart items and serials
• Integrating Resources (A3)

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Introduction to Part I

• Scope
• Structure of the description
• Organization of the rules
• Applying general and supplementary rules
• Focus for the description
• Resources in an unpublished form
• Options and omissions

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Outline of Chapter A1 General rules

• Preliminary rules
• Rules for each of the 8 ISBD areas
• Title and statement of responsibility
• Edition
• Material (or type of publication) specific
  details
• Publication, distribution, etc.
• Technical description
• Series
• Notes
• Standard number and terms of availability
• Multimedia resources
• In analytics and multilevel descriptions

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Organization of the Rules Section B

• Supplementary Rules Applicable to Specific Types
  of Content
• Text
• Music
• Cartographic Resources
• Graphics
• Three-Dimensional Resources
• Sound
• Moving Images

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Organization of the Rules Section C

• Supplementary Rules Applicable to Specific Types
  of Media
• Print and Graphic Media
• Micrographic Media
• Tactile Media
• Three-Dimensional Media
• Audio Media
• Projected Graphic, Film, and Video Media
• Digital Media

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Focus for the Description

• Single-part resource
• Resource comprising two or more parts issued
  simultaneously
• Resource issued in successive parts
• Integrating resource
• Separately titled component part
• Multilevel description
• Assembled collection of resources

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Chief Source of Information

• Part of general rules
• Standard list for all resources
• Some material-specific sources have been omitted
• More bracketing of publication information?

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Prescribed Sources of Information

• Part of general rules
• Standard list for all resources
• Some areas more restrictive than their AACR2
  counterparts

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General Material Designation

• Content
• cartographic resource
• choreography notation
• data
• graphic
• mixed content
• moving image
• music notation
• sound
• software
• text
• three-dimensional

• Medium
• audio
• digital
• film
• graphic
• micrographic
• multimedia
• print
• projected
• three-dimensional
• tactile
• video

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Possible GMDs (Hypothetical)

• text microform
• music digital
• multimedia digital
• text digital

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Unpublished Resources

• General rules apply equally to published and
  unpublished resources
• Separate subrules when necessary
• AACR2 Ch. 4 rules either
• Recast as general rules, or
• Removed if inconsistent with the general rules

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Assembled Collections

• AACR2 rules pertaining to assembled collections
  (primarily from Ch. 4)
• Chiefly incorporated into the General rules
• Some moved to Section B, if content-specific

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Published Resources

• Early printed resources
• Where appropriate, AACR2 Ch. 2 extra rules now
  in
• General rules, or
• Supplementary rules for print and graphic media
• Introduction to AACR3 will direct specialists to
  manuals with more detailed instructions
• No use of S.l. s.n. or their equivalents for
  unknown place or publisher

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Resources Issued in Successive Parts

• AACR2 Ch. 12 rules moved to
• General rules, if they apply to all resources
• Numbering area
• Chapter A2, covering resources issued in
  successive parts
• Includes continuing and finite resources
• Chapter A3, covering integrating resources

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Technical Description Area

• Renamed from physical description area
• Split between General rules (Section A) and Rules
  for specific types of media (Section C)
• General rules expanded to provide instructions
  for all types of resources

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Specific Material Designation

• Describe in terms of
• Number of physical units
• Number of components
• Both
• Designed for clearer delineation of
• Physical units (3 v.)
• Presentation units (327 p.)
• Logical aggregations of content (score, part)

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AACR3 Part II (Proposal)

• Choice of primary and secondary access points
• Choosing headings for the description
• Choosing access points for works and expressions
• Layout should separate out decision making
  process
• Rule of 3 optional?
• Editorial tasks
• Rework Chapter 21
• Address issues associated with the concept of
  authorship
• Update terminology
• Review concept of collection

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AACR3 Part III (Proposal)

• Form of access points (AACR2 Ch. 22-25)
• Incorporate authority control principles
• Rules on related references (integrating AACR2
  Ch. 26)
• Uniform titles
• For collocation
• Construct a heading for a Work and its
  Expression
• Expandable
• Function like guidecards
• For uniquely identifying works
• Clearly identify serials and other successively
  updated resources
• Link with variant forms of name, numeric
  identifiers, etc.

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End of AACR2

• JSC no longer considering rule revision proposals
  for AACR2
• Instead, proposals forwarded to General Editor
  for possible inclusion in AACR3
• 2005 Amendments will be final update
• Consists of 6 pages of actual rule revisions,
  plus the updated preliminary matter, etc.

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Successor to LCRIs?

• Library of Congress will end LCRIs when AACR2
  ceases
• Will move to a different type of documentation of
  cataloging decisions
• Still will clarify national choices when the
  rules allow for options
• May provide additional examples and procedural
  information

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Additional Information

• JSC website http//www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc
• Barbara Tilletts PowerPoint presentation
  http//www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/docs/aacr3ppt
  jan2005.pdf
• CCDA website http//www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/jc
  a/ccda/
• SDC website http//www.musiclibraryassoc.org/BCC/
  Descriptive/Descriptive.html
• Upcoming LRTS article by Jennifer Bowen

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Questions?