Video to be available at RDA Cafe on Facebook
Presenters for Emory Theology Library (Emory was a RDA test participant), University of Georgia, GPLS (Georgia Public Library System) and UGA’s Law Library.
Overview:
- Advantages of RDA – benefits to electronic reproductions in that there is no reproduction note, no GMD; benefits for theses & dissertations; granularity for increased searching
- Disadvantages – ambiguoity about publication date
- Carrier must change – impact on systems
Discussion of systems and ILS:
- We should drive the discussion with vendors or they will design for us and it will not be to our best interests
VS
- We have to wait for vendors to develop systems that will meet requirements of RDA
Emory’s experience
What they found in testing:
- o Advantages (see above)
- o 25 test records+ others including MODS
- o used the webpage to compare AACR2 versions and RDA versions for at least 10 records from common set (given to all testing institutions)
- o “not all that much difference”
- o “will affect us more than the user”
- o Love mapping to MARC
- o Toolkit needs more examples esp. outside of print
- o Workflows a very useful tool
Where they are now:
- Decision to postpone adoption until LC statement
- No longer producing RDA records
- existing RDA records in OCLC used without conversion
GPLS
- Discussion of GPLS Cataloging Summit
- Resource bibliography distributed
- Working on a GPLS Policy Statement, similar to LC
- Discussion on training – preconference training @ COMO 12?
UGA Law Library
Where they are:
- Change RDA records to AACR2 to use as training examples
- Will adopt RDA when LC does
- Discussion of training – Free RDA training at AALL
UGA
Where they are:
- Information gathering phase
- Original catalogers are reviewing records for materials with copy
- Records often a mix of RDA and AACR2
Headings sometimes RDA though the record is AACR2