RDA: next generation cataloguing standard

http://www.nla.gov.au/lis/stndrds/grps/acoc/acocseminar2008.html
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Friday 24th October, 2008
Invitation from Ebe Kartus, Chair, Australian Committee on Cataloguing
On behalf of the Australian Committee on Cataloguing (ACOC) I am pleased to invite you to the forthcoming ACOC seminar “RDA : next generation cataloguing standard”. This full-day seminar will be ACOC’s main professional development event for 2008 [...]

On the Record Report of Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/news/lcwg-ontherecord-jan08-final.pdf
In November 2006, Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress, convened a Working Group to examine the future of bibliographic control in the 21st century. The formal charge to the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control was to:
• Present findings on how bibliographic control and other descriptive practices [...]

Deanna Marcum’s response to the LC working group report

http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/news/LCWGRptResponse_DM_053008.pdf
Response to
On the Record: Report of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

FRBR Final report

http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr_current_toc.htm for html version
http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr_2008.pdf is the pdf version

“Just where’s the damn book?,” or, Rediscovering the art of cataloging

http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00012940/01/Just_where’s_the_damn_book__200803_.pdf
abstract:
Current discussions on the future of cataloging describe a “crisis” that has been going on longer than most realize. However, new challenges posed by the Internet have given increased attention to a more complete transformation of bibliographic control. Contributions by Calhoun and others have shown that much can be gleaned from [...]

The final report of the Library of Congress Task Force on the Future of Bibliographic Control

The final report of the Library of Congress Task Force on the Future of Bibliographic Control  is now available at:
http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/news/
This report discusses  future directions for cataloging and related bibliographic control activities such as authority control  both in terms of proposed actions by the US Library of Congress and by the broader library community.
Background information on [...]

Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
Anthony R D Franks, Library of Congress, Cooperative Cataloging Team Leader

 

http://docs.google.com/Presentation?docid=dcgkb2ms_12p6kc2hr&hl=en