# Presentation: 404113

## Revision of AACR2

- Goals of the Revision
- What will change?
- A New World of Bibliographic Resources
- New and Revised Definitions

- Impact of These Definitions
- Other Significant Changes
- Current Status of the Revision
- Issues to Think About

## Goals of the Revision

- Accommodate new forms of material
- Accommodate seriality
- Describe the whole work
- Emphasize identification over transcription
- Recognize the online environment (ILS)
- Introduce rules for change in all areas of description
- Harmonize with ISBD(S) and ISSN

## What Will Change?

- Expanded scope of Chapter 12
- Now including serials and (new) integrating resources
- Integrating resource
- A bibliographic resource that is added to or changed by means of updates that do not remain discrete and are integrated into the whole.
- Brand new name for Chapter 12

*Continuing Resources*

## A New World of Bibliographic Resources

- Bibliographic
- Resources

- Monographs

- Serials

- Integrating
- resources

- Continuing
- Resources

## New and Revised Definitions

**Continuing Resource**: A bibliographic resource that is issued over time, with no predetermined conclusion.
**Serial**: A continuing resource in any medium, issued in a succession of discrete parts, USUALLY bearing numeric or chronological designations with no predetermined conclusion.
**Integrating Resource**: A bibliographic resource that is added to or changed by means of updates that do not remain discrete and are integrated into the whole.

## Impact of Revised Definition of Serial

- More flexibility
- Covers unnumbered series and the occasional serial that lacks a designation on the first issue
- Accommodates electronic journals by allowing numbered articles to be discrete parts
- More relevant types added
- Not a major revision however!

## Impact of Defining Integrating Resources

- Third category added to monographs and serials
- By including in Chapter 12, recognizes the seriality of these resources
- Allows for special rules (description, handling changes) as needed
- Finally includes loose-leafs in AACR2 (along with database, Web sites)!

## Other Significant Changes

- New rules for handling changes at the end of each area of description
- Basis of description (new)
- Serials: First or earliest issue available
- Integrating Resources: Latest iteration
- Electronic serials: Entire source
- Chief source
- Print serials & loose-leafs: Current rules still apply

## Other Significant Changes (Cont’d)

- Chief source (cont’d)
- Remote access electronic: Prefer source with issue/part when it contains title
- Direct access electronic: Prefer carrier and its labels
- Entry conventions
- Serials: Successive entry
- Integrating resources: latest entry

## Other Significant Changes (Cont’d)

- Major changes
- Serials: Major change in title, corporate body (as m.e. or u.t. qualifier), and physical format
- Integrating resources: Major change in the edition
- Minor changes
- Serials: Handled by notes
- Integrating resources: Change description
- Both: Only when considered important (another change for consideration)

## Current Status of the Revision

- Oct. 2001: JSC approved changes to Chapter 12; publication expected mid-2002
- June 2001: MARBI approved changes to MARC 21; implementation not expected soon
- Oct. 2001: PCC task force issued report on implementation of integrating resources within PCC

## Changes to MARC 21

- Code i (integrating resource) added to Leader/07 (Bibliographic level)
- Code k (continuously updated) added to 008/18 (Frequency)
- Codes l (loose-leaf), d (database), w (web site) added to 008/21 to be renamed Type of continuing resource
- Code 2 (integrated entry) added to 008/34 to be renamed Entry conventions

## PCC task force report

- Recommendations:
- PCC develop documentation and training for integrating resources and make it widely available (e.g., on Web, in CCM, separate)
- CONSER and BIBCO both create and maintain records for integrating resources; maintenance extended to OCLC Enhance participants
- Authenticated records for integrating resources be included in CONSER distribution
- http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/tgintegrpt.html

## Issues to Think About

- Will the addition of a third category of resources have an impact on your institution?
- What kind of training will be needed?
- For serials?  Loose-leafs?  Electronic resources?
- Will we still have monograph and serial catalogers?

## For More Information:

- http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/jsc/ch12.htm
- http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/jsc/ser-rep0.html
- http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/conser/serialty.html