RDA Implementation at the Library of Congress (LC)
Dr. Barbara B. TillettChief, Policy & Standards Division, Library of Congress
& Chair, Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDAFor LIANZA (Library and Information Association of New
Zealand Aotearoa) September 2012
US RDA Test - 2010
• 2008 report – Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
• US National Libraries response to test RDA
US RDA Test – LC Support
• Library of Congress Policy Statements (LCPS)
• http://loc.gov/aba/rda/ for LC’s implementation news, training materials, Webcasts, etc.
US RDA Test• 26 participating institutions
– Many types of libraries, archives, museums, book dealers, library schools, system vendors, bibliographic consortia, PCC funnel projects
– 10,570 Bibliographic records– 12,800 Authority records– >8,000 surveys on findings
• Results: improvements needed to RDA Toolkit, to readability of instructions, move beyond MARC, etc.
US RDA Test Recommendations
• Implementation no sooner than January 2013, provided conditions met
• Conditions = recommendations to the – Joint Steering Committee (RDA)– American Library Association Publishers– System vendors– Program for Cooperative Cataloging– Library of Congress, National Agricultural Library,
National Library of Medicine
RDA Implementation
• 9 institutions continued with RDA after the US RDA Test– RDA “Copy” available for cataloging in
OCLC, SkyRiver, etc.
• LC’s RDA Implementation Planning site:
http://loc.gov.aba/rda/
RDA Training Schedule
• Oct.-Dec. 2010 – LC testers
• Oct.-Nov. 2011 – refresher
• June-July 2012 – LC trainers and reviewers; Cataloging Supervisors
• Aug. 2012 reworked modules
• Sept. 2012-March 2013 – LC cataloging staff (approximately 420 people; 60/month)
RDA training
• 36 hours in classroom – FRBR Fundamental Concepts and Practicum– RDA Toolkit– Modules 1-6 on RDA Content– FRBR/RDA/MARC– Guided practice with workplace resources
• 1 month cataloging with RDA (full review of all work) – extended as needed
Original Cataloging• LC’s training materials on LC’s Web site:
http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/
Cataloger’s Learning Workshop
Copy Cataloging
• Document R-4 (LC procedures for copy cataloging with RDA)
• Available at LC’s Web site:http://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/RDA%20training
%20materials/index.html
Under Library of Congress RDA Training Materials, then “R-documents”
LC-PCC PS
• LCPS – document policy decisions regarding use of options and alternatives in RDA– In coordination with the other national libraries on the
JSC
• Adjusted through decisions in the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC)
• Some submitted as proposals to change RDA – (if accepted will remove as LC-PCC PS)
Changes to Voyager (7.2.0)
• LC’s Integrated Library System– Tomcat OPAC and Voyager ‘classic’– “Web authorities” at authorities.loc.gov
• LC/NACO file• LCSH subject authorities
– Voyager tag tables through MARC update 13– RDA-based templates
• Authority: ‘slim’ and ‘verbose’• Bibliographic: AACR2 in process to RDA
– Displays (especially authority displays)
RDA Authority Display
RDA Authority Display
RDA Bibliographic Display
Voyager Indexing
• New MARC 264 (production, publication, distribution, manufacture, and copyright notice statements) – Ex Libris and BIBTEXT – future changes (v8.2)
• LC sent Ex Libris developers a list Aug. 2011 asking to enhance indexing for new fields (v8.2)
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