National Library of Australia

Working Groups

Members of ACOC participate in a number of national and international working groups involved with bibliographic standards. These include:

RDA Examples Group

The RDA Examples Group was formed in February 2005 with representatives from all of JSC's four national constituents. The RDA Examples Group was tasked to review all examples in AACR2, make assessments as to their appropriateness for inclusion in RDA, update examples where necessary, and provide any additional examples to illustrate the RDA guidelines. The new and changed examples will be added to the drafts of RDA as the instructions are finalised.

Members of the Group are:

  • Catherine Argus, National Library of Australia
  • John H. Bowman, University College London
  • Denise Lim, Library and Archives Canada
  • Pat Riva, McGill University Libraries
  • David Sommerfield, Library of Congress
  • Jay Weitz, OCLC

Format Variation Working Group

Enhancing catalogue access to works in multiple formats is the work of the Format Variation Working Group. The Format Variation Working Group was appointed in 2001 by the Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of AACR (JSC). The Group was chaired by Jennifer Bowen (University of Rochester Libraries, New York) and its members came from the USA, Canada, the UK and Australia. The Australian member was Peter Haddad (then Director, Technical Services, National Library of Australia). The Group presented its first interim report in October 2001, and progress with this work was discussed at each subsequent JSC meeting. At the April 2004 meeting, the JSC thanked the FVWG for their work and discharged the Group. The JSC charged the Editor with continuing the work of the FVWG on GMDs and chapter 25.