Hi Lucy,

Great suggested reading. I particularly recommend the Schiff presentation
and a similar one by Judy Kuhagen which is the first listed on the JSC
(Joint Steering Committee) site:
http://www.rda-jsc.org/rdapresentations.html

On Chris Oliver's book, I was a little disappointed that there weren't more
examples but you are right, it's a good basic introduction, especially to
the theoretical foundations of RDA (which many speakers last week said was
a crucial part of RDA preparation and training).

Celine

On Apr 18 2011, Seale, Lucy wrote:

> Good morning everyone. My name is Lucy and I work as a cataloguer at
> University College Falmouth in Cornwall. All I have been doing so far is
> finding suitable background reading material to introduce my four fellow
> cataloguing colleagues to RDA. This is what I have suggested so far:
>
>
> * 'Resource Description and Access: From AACR to RDA' by F. Tim Knight,
> Canadian Law Library Review, v. 36 no. 1, p. 8-12, 2011.
> http://pi.library.yorku.ca/dspace/handle/10315/6717 A good, very clear
> and short introduction to RDA (with a little bit on FRBR):
>
>
>
> * B Tillett's 'What is FRBR?' http://www.loc.gov/cds/downloads/FRBR.PDF
>
>
>
> * 'Introducing RDA : a guide to basics' by Chris Oliver. I know this got
> a bit of an unfavourable review in the recent issue of Update. I think it
> has its flaws (no full record examples being the most glaring one) but it
> is a reasonable introduction and she certainly has a sound knowledge of
> her subject.
>
>
>
> * Adam Schiff's slides that clearly sets out the differences between
> AACR2 and RDA rule by rule:
> http://www.rda-jsc.org/docs/BCLAPresentationWithNotes.pdf
>
> We have yet to subscribe to the RDA toolkit but are seriously considering
> doing this over the next few weeks. I'd be interested to know how many
> other people have subscribed.
>
> Thank you for the summary of the executive briefing Celine, that's really
> helpful and lots of interesting things to think about. My line manager
> went and he said it was a very interesting and informative day.
>
>Regards,
>
>Lucy
>
>
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Céline Carty
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Cambridge University Library
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