1. Music Library AssociationFeb. 18, 2005BCC Open Meeting Development of AACR3 Kathy Glennan University of Southern California

2. The Players - COP Committee of Principals Responsible for all policies and programs relating to AACR, publication of revisions and new editions, and the affairs of its subordinate bodies Coordinates three subordinate groups Co-Publishers of AACR Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR AACR Fund Committee (Trustees)

3. The Players - JSC Joint Steering Committee Responsible for reviewing the need for revisions and consolidations of AACR, preparing the text of any such revisions Six members, representing American Library Association (CC:DA) British Library (BL) Canadian Committee on Cataloguing (CCC) Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) Australian Committee on Cataloguing (ACOC) Library of Congress (LC)

4. The Players - CC:DA ALA’s Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA) Responsible for developing official ALA positions on additions to and revisions of AACR Membership: Nine voting members, two interns Five ex-officio representatives Approximately 30 non-voting liaisons from ALA units and from non-ALA organizations with an interest in issues of descriptive cataloging

5. MLA’s input via BCC Subcommittee on Descriptive Cataloging Responsible for formulating MLA policy on all matters related to the descriptive cataloging of music materials in libraries Members appointed to staggered 4-year terms Chair represents MLA at CC:DA Voice but no vote

6. Reporting Structure Committee of Principals Co-publishers of AACR JSC AACR Fund (Trustees) ALA (CC:DA) ACOCBLCCCCILIPLC MLA (SDC) Other ALA constituencies

7. AACR3: Vision The rules will: Evolve in a timely way to meet the changing information needs of the global environment Preserve their inherent strengths Adhere to basic principles for bibliographic description and access Accommodate the description of newly emerging types of material

8. AACR3: Purpose Simplify, clarify and update Encourage use as a content standard for metadata schema Improve collocation Remove redundancy (similar to MARC format integration) Multi-national in scope Appropriate for all media Independent of communication formats

9. AACR3: Principles Principle-based rules Build cataloger judgment Founded on international principles Encourage application of FRBR concepts Enable users to find, identify, select, and obtain resources appropriate to their information needs

10. International Principles International Conference on the Principles & Future Development of AACR (Toronto, 1997) IFLA’s Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, published in 1998 IFLA’s draft statement of international cataloguing principles, in development, 2003-07

11. AACR3 Development Goals The rules will continue to be based on principles and include attributes for all types of materials They will be used worldwide, but will be derived from English language conventions and customs They will be easy to use and interpret They will be applicable to, and operate in, an online, Web-based environment

12. AACR3 Development Goals They will provide effective bibliographic control of all types of media (analog and digital) They will be compatible with other standards for resource description and retrieval They will be used beyond the library community

13. Working Title AACR3: Resource Description and Access Acronym links it to the previous editions of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules But, at this time, “cataloguing” and “rules” are not actually part of the title Final title not yet determined

14. Production of Drafts Reversal of AACR2 revision proposal process Initiative comes from JSC Initial draft reviewed by JSC Responses from constituencies Comment; approval; reworking Final decisions made by JSC Constituencies not consulted on all changes Final draft prepared

15. Development Plan JSC hired Tom Delsey as general editor Editorial team creates the first drafts for the JSC Each part of rules developed sequentially New section to be added with the principles of authority control (Part III), based on AACR2 Chapters 22-25

16. AACR3: Outline Introductions – General principles Part I – Description Rules organized by area of description, rather than by material type Part II – Choice of access points Part III – Form of access points

17. Current AACR3 Timeline Part IPart IIPart IIIIntro. Outline to JSC Apr. 2004Oct. 2004Apr. 2005Oct. 2005 Draft to JSC Oct. 2004April 2005Oct. 2005April 2006 JSC review of comments Apr. 2005Oct. 2005Apr. 2006Oct. 2006 Final draft Apr. 2006April 2006Oct. 2006Nov. 2006 Text to publishers Dec. 2006 Publication date June 2007 (hoping to include Web-based version)

18. Issues Include General & specific material designations Combination of content and medium? Treatment of successively issued resources Choice of primary and secondary access points Concept of “collection” Changes in uniform titles to better collocate works and expressions

19. Access to Drafts Full text limited to JSC and its constituencies (including various task forces) Need unified responses from constituencies quickly Copyright and intellectual property issues Summaries of major changes available at the JSC and CC:DA websites

20. Additional Information JSC website: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc Barbara Tillett’s PowerPoint presentation: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/docs/ aacr3pptjan2005.pdf CC:DA website: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/jca/ccda/ SDC website: http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/BCC/ Descriptive/Descriptive.html

21. Questions?