-------- Original Message -------- Subject: New IFLA Publication "Cataloguig Code" !! Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 19:33:56 -0400 From: ahudson <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] ------------------ fyi, map catalogers... please see below Alice C. Hudson Chief, Map Division The Humanities and Social Sciences Library The New York Public Library 5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117 New York, NY 10018-2788 [log in to unmask]; 212-930-0589; fax 212-930-0027 http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson ----- Forwarded by ahudson/MHT/Nypl on 07/27/2004 07:40 PM ----- "Sjoerd Koopman" <Sjoerd.Koopman@i To: <[log in to unmask]> fla.nl> cc: Subject: New IFLA Publication "Cataloguig Code" !! 07/26/2004 04:38 AM New IFLA Publication "IFLA Cataloguing Principles" This book contains the proceedings of the First IFLA Meeting of Experts on an International Cataloguing Code, which was held at Die Deutsche Bibliothek, the German National Library at Frankfurt/main. 54 cataloguing experts, representing 32 European countries, met in July 2003, immediately prior to IFLA's General Conference in Berlin (August 2003). The goal for this meeting was to increase the ability to share cataloguing information worldwide by promoting standards for the content of bibliographic records and authority records used in library catalogues. Drafts of a Statement of Principles were discussed during this conference, and following by e-mail. The final text was approved by all participants in December 2003. It can be found at www.ddb.de/news/ifla_conf_papers.htm in many different languages. This event was intended to be the first in a series of regional meetings worldwide to discuss a new statement of cataloguing principles with the rule makers around the world, the second will be held in Buenos Aires in August 2004. IFLA Cataloguing Principles: Steps towards an International Cataloguing Code. Report from the 1st Meeting of Experts on an International Cataloguing Code, Frankfurt 2003. (IFLA Series on Bibliographic Control; vol. 26). Edited by Barbara B. Tillett, Renate Gömpel and Susanne Oehlschläger. München: Saur, 2004, IV, 286 p. ISBN 3-598-24275-1 Price: EUR 78,00 (IFLA Members EUR 58,00) Order: K.G. Saur Verlag P.O. Box 701620 81316 Munich, Germany Tel: +49-89-76902-300 Fax: +49-89-76902-150/250) [log in to unmask] www.saur.de