Proposal for labeling DCRM rules

[John Attig]

Just to throw a monkey wrench in the works . . .

Don't assume that the way AACR2 is organized now is the way it will be
organized in the future.  And definitely assume that the way the rules are
numbered is likely to change.

CC:DA has just voted a proposal which recommends to the Joint Steering
Committee that the rules in Part I of AACR be reorganized.  Instead of a
general chapter followed by separate chapters for particular types of
materials, the reorganized rules would have a chapter for each of the 8
ISBD areas of description.  Within each chapter there would be a sequence
of general rules (mostly, the present Chapter 1); interspersed with these
general rules would be specific rules for particular categories of
material.  The report includes prototypes of two chapters: Chapter 1 by
Martha Yee and Chapter 2 by me.  I won't go into the reasons for the
change.  However, CC:DA is not the only source of this recommendation; it
is also recommended by Tom Delsey in his model of Part I of AACR2.  The
Joint Steering Committee is meeting in October in Australia and is expected
to consider this question -- among many others; if I hear any news, I'll
pass it on.

The report is available online at 

http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/personal/jca/ccda/tf-024a.html

[It's the last item in the list of "Documents" and is available in three
different formats.]

I'm not arguing for any particular organization for DCRM.  However, you
should be aware that seeking to parallel the organization of AACR2 may well
be a moving target.


At 01:27 PM 8/26/1999 , you wrote:
>I think these are good ideas; I do have a further suggestion. One of the
>really fine aspects of AACR2 is that the subnumbers of each chapter
>correspond pretty precisely to the same subnumbers in every other chapter.
>If we could work out a numbering system so that a rule in the general
>chapter carries the same number as its equivalent more specific rule in the
>material specific chapters, I think that would be more than handy. Are you
>doing that more or less with the music rules development?
>
>Bob



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