1. Update on CEAL RDA Review CEAL 2007 Annual Shi Deng, UC San Diego sdeng@ucsd.edu

2. RDA: Resource Description and Acess A new standard for resource description and access that will replace AACR2 Designed for the digital environment URL for RDA drafts and more details: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rda.html

3. What has been accomplished What is on the horizon How you can get involved Instruction on sending comments Update on CEAL RDA Review

4. What has been accomplished: RDA Drafts Reviewed Before 2006 CEAL Annual: Part I, Description. Chapters 1-6. CEAL comments were submitted on Feb. 7, 2006. LCs proposal on RDA Part I Internationalization. CEAL comments were submitted on Mar. 7, 2006. (CEAL comments available at CTP web site: http://cealctp.lib.uci.edu/) http://cealctp.lib.uci.edu/ Between 2006 and 2007 CEAL Annual: Part A, Description. Chapters 6-7 on Relationships. No comment was submitted. Scope and Structure. Comments were not solicited.

5. What is on the horizon: Forthcoming RDA Drafts review timeline March-June 2007: Review of revised chapter 3 on Carrier in Part A July-September 2007: Review of revised chapter 6-7 in Part A December 2007-March 2008: Review of Part B, Access July-September 2008: Review of complete full draft of RDA 2009: Release of RDA

6. How you can get involved Subscribe RDA-L listserv or read discussion archives at: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rdadiscuss.html http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rdadiscuss.html Review RDA drafts and send comments: –Option 1: Send to CEAL RDA Review Subcommittee via sdeng@ucsd.edu, OR sdeng@ucsd.edu –Option 2: Use the web form at http://www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/jca/ccda/ or http://www.ala.org/alcts. http://www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/jca/ccda/ http://www.ala.org/alcts Please note that you CANNOT send comments to both channels. Either you send your comments to be part of CEAL comments, or you send them individually.

7. Instruction on sending comments Rule number for the rule upon which you are commenting; A brief statement of the problem; Your proposed solution(s) to the problem; Your name and email address.

8. CEAL RDA Review Subcommittee Members: Ai-lin Yang (Stanford) Chwang Chia Yang (LC) Daphne Wang (U. Oregon) Dawn Lawson (NYU) Edwin Yu (CJKat) Evelyn Kuo (UC Berkeley) Iping K. Wei (Princeton) Jai-hsya Tsao (U. Chicago) Joy Kim (USC) Wen-Ling D. Liu (Indiana) Nanako Kodaira (Duke) Shi Deng (UCSD, Coordinator) Thomas Tsai (LC) Wayne Richter (W. Washington) Young-ki Lee (LC) Advisors: Abraham J. Yu (UC Irvine, CEAL past president) Beatrice Chang Ohta (LC) Hideyuki Morimoto (Columbia, Chair, ALA/CC:AAM RDA Task Force) Philip A Melzer (LC, CEAL president) Sarah S. Elman (Yale, ALA/CC:AAM RDA Task Force) Ex-Officio Mary Lin (Wisconsin-Madison, Chair, CTP) Comments Consolidation Dawn Lawson Nanako Kodaira Shi Deng

9. Please join the shared effort in CEAL Review of RDA Drafts Suggestions/Comments? Send to sdeng@ucsd.edusdeng@ucsd.edu Thank You!