[DCRB-L] AACR revision proposal re: Coloured illustrations

[John Attig]

At the CC:DA meeting at ALA Annual in Toronto, CC:DA approved the proposal 
that I had drafted to delete the term "Coloured illustrations" from the 
AACR Glossary.  The proposal has been forwarded to the Joint Steering 
Committee for their consideration.

I understand that the Bibliographic Standards Committee discussed the 
proposal and decided that specific instructions were needed for describing 
rare materials.

I anticipated that the rough-and-ready first-impression approach that seems 
to be appropriate in general cataloging might be inadequate for the 
description of rare materials.  I would direct the group's attention to the 
MARC 21 "color" element in field 007 for projected graphics, nonprojected 
graphics, motion pictures and videorecordings.  Although not strictly 
relevant to the description of illustrations in printed texts, some of the 
concepts may be useful.

	John Attig
	MARBI liaison