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Title: Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of AACR File, 1970-80, 1983-92, 1994, 1996, 1998-99
ID: 31/47/15
Primary Creator: Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS)
Extent: 7.0 Cubic Feet
Arrangement: Arranged by accession, alphabetically by subject title, and chronologically thereunder
Date Acquired: 06/23/1982
Subjects: Anglo American Cataloging Rules, Canadian Library Association, Catalog Code Revision Committee, Cataloging, Cataloging Rules, Library Association (Great Britain), Library of Congress, Machine Readable Data Files, Subcomm on Rules for, Spalding, C. Summer
Languages: English
The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) is responsible for the following activities: acquisition, identification, cataloging, classification, and preservation of library materials; the development and coordination of the country's library resources; and those areas of selection and evaluation involved in the acquisition of library materials and pertinent to the development of library resources. ALCTS has specific responsibility for:
1. Continuous study and review of the activities assigned to the division.
2. Conduct of activities and projects within its area of responsibility.
3. Synthesis of activities of all unites within the ALA that have a bearing on the type of activity represented.
4. Representation and interpretation of its type of activity in contacts outside the profession.
5. Stimulation of the development of librarians engaged in its type of activity, and stimulation of participation by members in appropriate type-of-library divisions.
6. Planning and development of programs of study and research for the type of activity fot the total profession (1).
The name change from Resources and Technical Services Division (RTSD) to ALCTS became effective on June 30, 1989 (2). The RTSD was established on January 1, 1957. It combined the former Division of Cataloging and Classification (established in 1900, and until 1940 the Cataloging Section), the Board of Acquisitions of Library Materials (created by Council in 1951), and the Serials Round Table (created by Council in 1929) (3).
Division was dissolved on September 1, 2020, and merged into a new division, Core.
Anglo American Cataloging Rules
Canadian Library Association
Catalog Code Revision Committee
Cataloging
Cataloging Rules
Library Association (Great Britain)
Library of Congress
Machine Readable Data Files, Subcomm on Rules for
Spalding, C. Summer
URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/alasfa/3147015a.pdf
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