Library of Congress Announces Its Long-Range RDA Training Plan

The U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee issued its first quarterly update on progress towards carrying out the recommendations made in the Committee’s Final Report issued in June 2011.  The progress is very promising.  Because the Library of Congress has such a large contingent of staff to be trained to apply RDA, we have determined that we will need sufficient lead time to get everyone trained.  To set the training plan in motion, we needed to determine a target RDA Implementation Day One.  As will be seen in the attached plan, we have determined that date to be March 31, 2013.

LC’s partner national libraries (U.S.: National Agricultural Library and National Library of Medicine; and non-U.S.: British Library, Library & Archives Canada, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, and National Library of Australia) have been apprised of our plan and also intend to target the first quarter of 2013 as their RDA implementation date, i.e., between January 2 and March 31, 2013.

We are now sharing our plan broadly to alert our various constituencies. By doing so as early as possible, we hope that this will help others prepare for RDA implementation. As we update the plan, we will continue to share it, along with documentation, training, and other related information on LC’s Resource Description and Access (RDA)—Information and Resources in Preparation for RDA Website (http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/).

BEACHER WIGGINS
DIRECTOR FOR ACQUISITIONS & BIBLIOGRAPHIC ACCESS

ALCTS webinar: RDA and Moving Images

Date: Wed, 03/14/2012 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

ALCTS webinar: RDA and Moving Images

Date: March 14, 2012 
All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1pm Central, and 2pm Eastern time.

Description: This presentation will provide an overview of the cataloging of moving image content using RDA, focusing on areas that differ from AACR2, are challenging to interpret, or are in need of community consensus. Examples include DVD, Blu-ray, streaming video, and video games.

Audience: Those who want to learn more about how moving image cataloging practices will change with RDA and what the unsettled issues are. Attendees should already be familiar with the basic concepts and application of RDA and the general process of cataloging moving image materials using AACR2.

Presenter: Kelley McGrath is Metadata Management Librarian at the University of Oregon. She is an experienced media cataloger and has worked with videos, ebooks, CD-ROMs, computer games, pictures and posters, kits, games, and a variety of three-dimensional objects. She has been active in Online Audiovisual Catalogers (OLAC) for many years including several years as chair of OLAC’s Cataloging Policy Committee. She coordinated the joint OLAC/Music Library Association group that participated in the U.S. National Libraries RDA test and is currently OLAC’s liaison to CC:DA.