November 16, 2007
JSC for Development of RDA Meeting Summary Available
The Joint Steering Committee (JSC) for Development of RDA met in Chicago in October to discuss Resource Description and Access (RDA), the cataloging rules anticipated to replace the Anglo American Cataloging Rules, 2nd ed. (AACR2). A summary of the outcomes of this meeting is now available.
As a result of discussions at the meeting, JSC decided to reorganize the structure of RDA to align it more closely to Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and Functional Requirements of Authority Data (FRAD).
The current structure of RDA breaks it down into Part A (Description and Relationships) and Part B (Access Point Control). The new structure breaks RDA down into 10 sections organized into two groups. One group will focus on recording the attributes of each of the FRBR-defined entities, and the other group will focus on recording the relationships between those entities.
Other decisions at the meeting impact the practice of uniform titles for the Bible, the treatment of initial articles in certain types of headings, the creation of access points for treaties and what changes in a continuing resource require a new record.
