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Cataloguing Section

Announcements

Press Releases

The Statement of International Cataloguing Principles has been released for worldwide review. Responses are due by 30 June 2008.


The British Library, Library and Archives Canada, the Library of Congress and the National Library of Australia to work together on implementation of RDA: Resource Description and Access
French translation


New publications

The International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) – preliminary consolidated edition has been published by K.G. Saur.  It was presented at the World Library and Information Congress in Durban, South Africa, in August 2007.


A list of uniform titles for African epics, Anonymous Classics: African literature: epics and assimilated, has been drafted for the Working Group on Anonymous Classics by Nadine Boddaert. This is a preliminary draft only; any comments and suggestions to improve this list are most welcome.

Scope

The Cataloguing Section analyzes the functions of cataloguing activities for all types of material and media, including both bibliographic and authority information, for the benefit of all users.

The Section proposes and develops cataloguing rules, guidelines and standards for bibliographic information taking into account the developing electronic and networked environment in order to promote universal access to and exchange of bibliographic and authority information.

The Section has close relationships with many organizations and institutions including national cataloguing and standardization committees, various multinational organizations, various committees of ISO, especially with TC46, with the Sections on Bibliography, Classification and Indexing, and Information Technology, and in particular with ICABS (IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Bibliographic Standards).

Strategic Plan

2007-2009

IME ICC

A series of five regional IFLA Meetings of Experts on an International Cataloguing Code (IME ICC) took place from 2003 to 2007.  They produced a Statement of International Cataloguing Principles that was submitted for worldwide review in May 2008.

Affiliated Groups

ISBD Review Group
Maintains the International Standard Bibliographic Description
FRBR Review Group
Maintains the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
Working Group on Metadata for Digital Objects

Division of Bibliographic Control's Procedures for electing members to IFLA review groups

Other working groups of interest

Publications

The Cataloguing Section is responsible for the ISBD, FRBR, and a number of other standards and documents in the field of bibliographic control. Some of these are issued in the IFLA Series on Bibliographic Control.

The list of publications includes those which are available as PDF files.

SCATNews

SCATNews is the online newsletter of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Cataloguing Section.

Annual Reports

2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003

Previous annual reports

Reports of the liaison to the ALA Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access

2007 | 2006

Minutes of Meetings

2007: Durban, South Africa
2006: Seoul, Korea
2005: Oslo, Norway
2004: Buenos Aires, Argentina
2003: Berlin, Germany

Previous meetings

Mailing list

CATSMAIL: Cataloguing Section's Standing Committee Mailing List
Submissions: catsmail@infoserv.inist.fr

Standing Committee officers

For contact information, click on a name to link to the committee roster.

Chair/Treasurer
Anders Cato
Head of Cataloguing
Kungl. biblioteket (National Library of Sweden)
Sweden
Secretary
Ben Gu
Director, Chinese Acquisitions & Cataloging Department
National Library of China
Information Coordinator
John Hostage
Authorities Librarian
Harvard Law School Library
United States
Newsletter Editor
William A. Garrison
Dean, USF Libraries
University of South Florida
United States