Administrative Requirements for Creating an RBMS Cataloging Manual

(DRAFT IN PROGRESS)

Beginning

• Submit proposal to BSC
• BSC votes to approve
• BSC chair appoints editorial chair and team (in consultation with editorial chair)
• Editorial team creates listserv for themselves and the BSC chair 

After a full draft is finished (preface and appendices need not be finished)

• Public hearing 

Nearer the end

• Request "Description Convention Source Code" from LC Network Development and MARC Standards Office, see http://www.loc.gov/standards/sourcelist/#maintenance for most recent procedures
• Alert PSD of rough deadline for final text so they can get it into their schedule
•  Engage indexer, if considered important
•  Design cover (see folder of "Publication Documents" on this wiki for source files)  

End

• Close reading
• PSD approval
• CC:DA approval (not necessary for remaining AACR2-based manuals) 
• BSC approval
• RBMS Executive Committee approval
• Send Word document to CSD for Cataloger's Desktop encoding
• Send PDF document to BSC's web team representative for posting
• Send press release to Library of Congress Communications Office and ACRL Press Center [Note from Erin: I'm not sure how this is done; Helena Zinkham is in touch with the LC Communications Office because her division already has a liaison officer]