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Ms Ann HUTHWAITE
Library Resource Services Manager, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Email: <a.huthwaite@qut.edu.au>
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Ann Huthwaite is currently the Library Resource Services Manager at the Queensland University of Technology Library, where she has overall responsibility for management of all technical services operations, including cataloguing, acquisitions (monographs and serials), and the Course Materials Database. She has also acted in several managerial positions in user services in the QUT Library, including the position of Branch Library Manager at the Kelvin Grove Branch from 2002 – 2004.
She was the Australian representative on the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (JSC) from1994 until 2003, and was the Chair of the Committee from 1999 until the end of her term in 2003.
Ann has a long involvement with cataloguing in Australia. She has been a member of the Australian Committee on Cataloguing (ACOC) since 1992, and was that committee's representative on the Standards Committee of the Australian Bibliographic Network in 1994 and 1995. She was a joint editor of the Australian cataloguing journal, Cataloguing Australia, for several years, and convened the 13th National Cataloguing Conference in Brisbane in 1999. She served on the executive of the Queensland Group of the Cataloguers' Section of the Australian Library and Information Association from 1987 until 2001, generally as President of the group. A new group was formed in 2001 to encompass a range of technical services activities, and Ann has been an active member of this group.
Ann has made a number of presentations at state, national, and international conferences, including a presentation at the Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA, in November 2000. The title of the presentation was: “AACR2 and its place in the digital world: near term solutions and long term direction.”
Prior to her appointment at the Queensland University of Technology as the Cataloguing Librarian in 1989, Ann worked in various positions at the State Library of Queensland. Ann holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and graduate diplomas in education and librarianship. She also holds a Master in Applied Science (Information Studies) from Charles Sturt University. The focus of her research for this degree was user interaction with the catalogue.
ABSTRACT
Resource Description and Access (RDA): a new standard for the digital age
Resource Description and Access (RDA) is due to be published in 2008. It will be a standard designed for use in the digital environment, suitable for the description of all types of resources, both digital and physical. It is based on the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR), but has been given a new title to reflect the proposed changes in format and scope. A key element in the design of RDA will be its alignment with the conceptual models for bibliographic and authority data developed for the IFLA Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), and the IFLA Functional Requirements for Authority Records (FRAR). The objective is to create instructions and guidelines that are independent of the format, medium or system used to store or communicate the data; there will be a clear distinction made between the recording of data and the presentation of data.
RDA is being designed primarily for use in libraries, but it will also provide references to other standards for resource description and access, such as those developed by the archival and museum communities. Another important objective is to ensure that the instructions and guidelines are designed for ease and efficiency of use. They will be written in a clear, concise, simple style that eliminates unnecessary library jargon, and ambiguous and inconsistent terminology. General instructions covering basic aspects of resource description and access that are applicable to all types of resources will be supplemented by any additional guidance needed for the description of more specific characteristics of a resource.
This presentation will provide an overview of the proposed content and structure of RDA, and the principles on which the instructions and guidelines are based. It will also include an overview of the process for its development leading to its publication in 2008.
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