What the date and time of the RDA session?
Diane I. Hillmann wrote:
> Karen:
>
> By all means add the talking points and a link to the slides to the
> wiki (add the slides themselves to slideshare maybe?). I need to do
> some slides for the RDA Update at Annual, so I'd love to see what you
> used at Harvard.
>
> By the way, I just got a note from Matthew Beacom--they're looking for
> a blogger for that session--do you have any suggestions?
>
> Diane
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> I was at Harvard yesterday for a day of "metadata discussion." I
>> talked to a small group of interested librarians in the morning and
>> gave a presentation to about 200 library staff in the afternoon. My
>> slides are mainly images so they don't stand alone, but I will try to
>> work up a "talking points" document. I did present the RDA/DCMI
>> project, although not in great detail. I mainly talked about the need
>> to get our cataloging standard off the printed page and into an
>> actionable form. I didn't get a significant negative response,
>> although it's very hard to gauge exactly what people understood. When
>> I presented the idea to a smaller group in the morning there was the
>> concern that the library world just doesn't have the time to go back
>> and re-tool at this point. I think it'll be extremely important to
>> have something to show people, and to explain that what we are
>> creating is a building block that can be used *as needed and as
>> desired*. I myself am interested to see if the library world moves
>> forward together or if we fork different technologies based on new
>> capabilities.
>>
>> It would be good to start working on talking points or an FAQ,
>> because there are definitely issues that always come up. I'll write
>> those up as they occur to me. Should I go ahead and add them to the
>> wiki?
>>
>> kc
>>
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