ISSN ISSN 1443-0568 | no. 66 | December 2003
Joint Steering Committee for Revision of Anglo-Australian Cataloguing Rules Meets in Brisbane
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| (Left to right) Sally Strutt (British Library); Matthew Beacom (American Library Association); Robert Atkinson (CILIP); Nathalie Schulz (JSC Secretary); Ann Huthwaite (JSC Chair); Deirdre Kiorgaard (ACOC); Barbara Tillett (Library of Congress); Margaret Stewart (CCC) |
The Stamford Plaza in Brisbane was the venue for the meeting of the Joint Steering Committee for revision of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (JSC), held 8–10 September. It was only the second time JSC has met in Australia since Ann Huthwaite became the Chair of JSC in 1999. Ebe Kartus, the current Chair of Australian Committee On Cataloguing (ACOC), and Deirdre Kiorgaard, the incoming ACOC representative to JSC, also attended the meeting.
This was Ann’s final meeting as both ACOC representative on JSC, and as Chair of JSC. As Chair of JSC Ann has guided the Committee through a period of major change. This period, which began with the International Conference on the Principles and Future Development of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR), will culminate in 2006 with the publication of a new edition of AACR. The American Library Association representative, Matthew Beacom, is the incoming JSC Chair.
Key topics discussed at the September meeting were:
The next JSC meeting will be held in Ottawa in April/May 2004. On the agenda will be a range of topics related to the new edition of AACR, including: further work on the principles of AACR, the organisation of Part I, and the proposed Part III of AACR on Authority control. The meeting will also include a full day meeting with the Committee of Principles to establish the timeline for the new edition, and the possible engagement of an editor.
To keep in touch with the work of JSC, you can visit their website at <http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/jsc/>.
The newly developed Strategic Plan <http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/jsc/stratplan.htmlis>
is a recent addition to the site.
—Deirdre Kiorgaard
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