AACR3: Redefining a Standard for the 21st Century
John Attig, Penn State University
Jennifer Bowen, University of Rochester
Matthew Beacom, Yale University
Summary: The Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR has embarked on the preparation of a new edition of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, to be published in 2007 and designed to reposition AACR as a content standard for descriptive metadata. Learn about its objectives and some of its main new features. Obtain advance knowledge about significant revisions to be included in the new edition and the organization and content of the new edition. Understand the rationale for the revision of AACR, its impact on cataloging and metadata operations, and its benefit to catalogers and catalog users.
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