Webliography: Resources for and about RDA and its foundations,
the RDA Toolkit, and the US RDA Test
Webcasts: foundations of RDA, changes from AACR2, potential for the future
Resource Description and Access: Background / Overview. Speaker: Barbara Tillett. Recorded May 14, 2008. Running time: 67 minutes. Available at: http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4320
Cataloging Principles and RDA: Resource Description and Access. Speaker: Barbara Tillett. Recorded June 10, 2008. Running time: 49 minutes. Available at: http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4327
FRBR: Things You Should Know but Were Afraid to Ask. Speaker: Barbara Tillett. Recorded March 4, 2009. Running time: 57 minutes. Available at: http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4554
AACR2, RDA, VIAF, and the Future: there to here to there. Speaker: Barbara Tillett for the NISO Webinar: “Bibliographic Control Alphabet Soup: AACR to RDA and Evolution of MARC”. Recorded October 14, 2009. Presentation available upon request from B. Tillett ().
Q&A: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/bibcontrol09/questions/
RDA Changes from AACR2 for Texts. Speaker: Barbara B. Tillett. Recorded January 12, 2010. Running time: 75 minutes (41 minutes of presentation followed by Q&A). Available at: http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4863
RDA Test “Train the Trainer” (Training modules). Presented by Judy Kuhagen and Barbara Tillett, January 15, 2010; Northeastern University, Boston, Mass.
Modules 1-9 http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/trainthetrainer.html
PowerPoint files of the Modules (with speaker’s notes) and accompanying material are freely available at: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/RDAtest/rdatraining.html
· Module 1: What RDA Is and Isn’t
· Module 2: Structure
· Module 3: Description of Manifestations and Items
· Module 4: Identifying Works, Expressions, and Manifestations
· Module 5: Identifying Persons
· Module 6: Identifying Families (filmed at the Library of Congress, March 1, 2010)
· Module 7: Identifying Corporate Bodies
· Module 8: Relationships
· Module 9: Review of Main Concepts, Changes, Etc.
RDA: Looking to the Future: Information Systems and Metadata. Speaker: Barbara Tillett. Recorded March 9, 2010. Running time: 54 minutes. Available at: http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4967
RDA Implementation Decision by LC, NAL, and NLM
http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/rda-execstatement-13june11.pdf
Full report of the US RDA Test Coordinating Committee: http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/rdatesting-finalreport-20june2011.pdf
Executive summary: http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/rda-execsummary-public-13june11.pdf
Library of Congress and OCLC Policies during this Interim:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/RDAtest/rdatest.html
* US RDA Test administrative documents (from the US RDA Test Coordinating
Committee posted here for public distribution) -- of general interest because they
continue through this interim period:
1. US RDA Test policy for the Extra set: use of existing authority and bibliographic records (guidelines for using/modifying existing bibliographic and authority records when cataloging the "extra set" category in the Test)
2. Adding RDA elements/fields to existing OCLC non-RDA records (OCLC’s policy for the Test time period)
* Library of Congress Policy Statements – available in the RDA Toolkit for free access at http://access.rdatoolkit.org/ under the “Resources” tab
* Library of Congress’ Plans for RDA will have a new Website soon. Watch for announcements
PCC information, policies and practices during the Test and this interim period
* Resource Description and Access (RDA) and PCC: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/RDA-PCC.html (pointers to documents, webcasts, etc.) -- latest document:
- PCC RDA Policy and Practice Decisions Needed if RDA Is Adopted (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/RDA-PCC.html)
* RDA as modified by CSR: recommended guidelines (http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/CSR-RDA-Test.pdf)
* PCC Post RDA Test guidelines (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/PCC-Post-RDA-Test.html)
* RDA Resources for Library Directors (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/RDA-Resources.html)
US RDA Test record downloads:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/RDAtest/rdatestrecords.html
Note disclaimer that records have not been reviewed.
Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative
http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/
Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC):
http://www.rda-jsc.org/
Full draft of RDA: http://www.rdaonline.org/constituencydraft/
ALA representative to the JSC: John Attig ()
Website for the RDA Toolkit:
http://www.rdatoolkit.org/ (includes webinars about the Toolkit)
To submit questions about the Toolkit: http://www.rdatoolkit.org/support/
LC for GPLS
July 26, 2011