CEAL RDA Review Guidelines

1. While it is recognized that not everyone who care to comment would have time to review each draft Part in its entirety, many rules are related to each other (although some rules stand by themselves), so that reviewing only of some sections within each part, without regard to other sections, may not always result in coherent and relevant comments;

2. RDA is not proposed as a complete paradigm shift but as improvement, however drastic it might be, over AACR2 with adoption of recent models, such as FRBR, so that comments should be based on full understanding of (although not necessarily agreement with) past and current cataloging rules and practices in North America;

3. Some comments from CEAL members may exhibit marked disagreement from each other on some proposed rules within each draft RDA Part; and

4. Because of these three factors, CEAL will analyze and synthesize to the best of its ability comments from CEAL members, which may result in some comments conscientiously altered or even omitted in a finalized CEAL response for submission to CC:DA.