In accordance with its strategic plan, the JSC is working towards a replacement for AACR scheduled for release in June 2010. In order to enable the JSC and constituencies to concentrate on this work, the last update to AACR2 was in 2005.

The period until publication of RDA: Resource Description and Access will be a development process for the creation of a new standard, rather than a rule revision process. The JSC is not able to accept further revision proposals until after RDA is released in 2010. The rule revision process will recommence after RDA's release.

For information on changes to AACR2 rules that have been deferred until after the first release of RDA see 5JSC/Sec/6.

Proposals for rule revision emanating from within the author countries of AACR should be submitted through their respective member bodies of JSC.

In Australia: contact the Australian Committee on Cataloguing:
Deirdre Kiorgaard, Australian Representative to JSC

In Canada: consult the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing Web site; in particular, see the document “How to submit a Canadian proposal for a revision to the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules”

In the United Kingdom: contact the CILIP/BL Secretariat
c/o Ms Katharine Gryspeerdt.

In the United States: consult the American Library Association’s Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access Web site; in particular, see the document “How to Submit a Rule Change Proposal.”

Proposals for rule revision emanating from outside the author countries of AACR should be submitted to the Chair of JSC.

For more information on the rule revision process, see the Statement of Policy and Procedures for JSC [PDF format].

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