Committee on Cataloging: Description & Access

The Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA) is the body within the American Library Association responsible for developing official ALA positions on additions to and revisions of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition, 2002 Revision. In 2007, this focus changed to review of the proposed Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard, intended to replace the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules.

A thorough introduction to CC:DA and its work is available in the pamphlet, Building International Descriptive Cataloging Standards: The Role of the American Library Association’s Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access.

The Committee consists of nine voting members, two interns, five ex-officio representatives, and approximately 30 non-voting liaisons from ALA units and from non-ALA organizations with an interest in issues of descriptive cataloging. For more information, see the Committee’s Web site at: www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/jca/ccda/index.html

The current chair of the Committee is John Myers.

Announcing

Joint Steering Committee Web site

Committee Charge
[from the ALA Handbook of Organization]

Current Committee Roster

How to Submit a Rule Change Proposal to CC:DA

Index of CC:DA Documents
[Reports on metadata, reviews of draft standards, RDA- and FRBR-related reports]

For more information, including:

reports and other working documents
links to AACR-related sites and documents
agendas and minutes of meetings
the Committee’s Procedures

see the Committee’s Web site at: www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/jca/ccda/index.html