[rak-list] AACR Amendments 2001

[Bernhard Eversberg]

Die "Amendments 2001" zu den AACR liegen seit einer Weile vor,
jetzt beginnt man in Kanada mit der Einfuehrung.
Hiermit reiche ich eine Message weiter, die ueber Autocat kam.
Fuer die Uebersetzungsgruppe stellt sich die Frage, ob und wie die
Amendments beruecksichtigt werden sollen. Wurde das schon diskutiert?
Wenn ich richtig erinnere, sollte zunaechst einmal die Ausg. 1998,
so wie sie ist, uebersetzt werden. Aber soll's dabei bleiben, wo die
Uebersetzung doch erst naechstes Jahr herauskommen kann?
Fuer RAK ist der Punkt 1 interessant (Kongresse als Haupteintragung,
auch wenn sie nicht "prominent" genannt sind), ferner das 
ueberarbeitete Kapitel 9 ("Electronic resources")
MfG B.E.


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Date sent:      Tue, 6 Nov 2001 14:37:56 -0500
From:           "J. McRee Elrod" <mac at SLC.BC.CA>
Subject:        AACR Amendments 2001

                The National Library of Canada has announced that it
will begin implementation of Amendments 2001 to the Anglo-American
Cataloguing Rules, 2nd edition, 1998 revision on December 1, 2001.

                They identify the three major rule revisions in
Amendments 2001 as (edited from their announcemnt):

                rule 21.1B2(d): A conference, expedition, or event no longer
has to be prominently named in the item being catalogued to justify main
entry.

                rules 1.1F7, 22.1C, 22.12, 22.19B): British titles of
nobility and terms of honour will be excluded from headings for which
surnames are the entry element but included if the name consists solely of a
surname, or if a married woman is identified only by her husband's name and
a term of address, or if used to resolve conflicts in headings.  NLC will
revise any previously established heading on an as encountered basis.
It is my understanding that this differs from the British Library and
Library of Congress, who will not change established headings unless
some other change is also required.  But perhaps that is was
"encountered" means.

                Chapter 9: Renamed "Electronic Resources," chapter 9 has
been reissued in its entirety even though not all rules have been revised.
Main points to note: GMD "computer file" has been replaced by "electronic
resource"; conventional terminology to record the specific format of the
physical carrier is now optional in the extent of item.  NLC will use
conventional terminology to record the specific format of the physical
carrier.  Although NLC does not mention it, [electronic resource] also
replaces [interactive multimedia]. This latter gmd never made it into
the AACR2 list, but several libraries adopted it from an ALA report.

   __       __   J. McRee (Mac) Elrod (mac at slc.bc.ca)
  {__  |   /     Special Libraries Cataloguing   HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/
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Bernhard Eversberg
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D-38023 Braunschweig, Germany
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