Preconference
May 16, 2007, 10:00 am –
5:00 pm CDT
Preconference registration 9:30 am CDT
Holiday Inn – University Plaza
Bowling Green, KY
Join us for an up-to-date review of the work of the Joint
Steering Committee for Revision of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules and
other IFLA intitatives. Dr. Barbara Tillett is the Library of Congress representative
to this committee. She will bring her expertise and share her knowledge of the
progress the committee has made toward the revision of AACR.
Cataloging Issues – International Initiatives:
RDA and Related IFLA Activities
Dr. Barbara Tillett, Chief, Cataloging Policy & Support Office,
Library of Congress
There are a lot of changes being developed for cataloging
rules and principles. The Joint Steering Committee for Revision of the Anglo-American
Cataloguing Rules is on the verge of completing the new cataloging code (RDA
: Resource Description and Access). The IFLA Meeting of Experts on an International
Cataloging Code (IME ICC) is working on a new set of cataloging principles which
will replace the 1961 Paris Principles. New conceptual models and vocabulary
are influencing many of these changes to our basic guidelines and instructions
for cataloging as well as influencing future systems designs. Dr. Barbara Tillett
will discuss the many IFLA initiatives (IME ICC, FRBR, FRAD, FRSAR, VIAF) being
developed to assist global sharing of bibliographic information. The all day
workshop will include detailed discussions of these initiatives with special
emphasis on RDA, FRBR, the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF), and
IFLA's work on a new Statement of International Cataloging Principles (IME ICC).
She will bring attendees up-to-date on the progress of RDA: Resource Description
and Access and discuss the impact of this new cataloging code on serials and
monograph cataloging processes.
Dr. Tillett is Chief of the Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) at the Library of Congress and Acting Chief of the Cataloging Distribution Service, the divisions responsible for creating and distributing the various authoritative cataloging tools (LC Rule Interpretations, LC Classification Schedules, LC Subject Headings) and other cataloging documentation used by librarians all over the country. She currently serves as the Library of Congress representative on the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (the cataloger's “Bible”). In addition, she chairs the IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) Division IV on Bibliographic Control, and leads the IFLA work towards an International Cataloguing Code and a Virtual International Authority File.