Hallo, all.

Oxford/Bodleian has a single database with contributors in 100 different
institutions, about half of them independent and separately funded, so I
doubt if we can be covered by a single subscription - although we will
certainly try asking.  Most of the non-Bodleian do quite small amounts
of cataloguing and wouldn't think it worth subscribing to the Toolkit,
but because we are all cataloguing to one database, with central
training and support, we can't plan for some institutions to use the
Toolkit and others not.

My impression from the Briefing was that a very high proportion of the
value of the Toolkit will lie in the resources (presentations,
workflows, cheatsheets) freely contributed by users, notably LC and BL,
and it will be particularly sad if these freely contributed resources
are unavailable to people who can't afford the Toolkit.

We were thinking of producing our own externally mounted material and
just hyperlinking it to Toolkit sections, but I gather that this is
technically impossible. 

Best wishes,
Bernadette


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BL is using RDA on 2 sites; subscriptions are calculated on the number
of concurrent users not number of physical sites. 

Alan

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Yes, it's the buy-one-get-one free offer that we would like to take
advantage of. We subscribed during the free trial period but this
coincided with a particularly busy time for us so we hardly had any time
to look at it in any great detail.

Lucy



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Carty
Sent: 18 April 2011 10:28
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Subject: Re: RDA toolkit

In response to Nicky & Helen on the RDA Toolkit, we have a subscription
at Cambridge. The question of the Toolkit came up during the Exec
Briefing and I pointed out then that there is a buy-one-get-one-free
kind of deal at the moment - based on an assumption that you will need
to access the Toolkit more during the initial familiarisation/training
period than when your institution is settled into using RDA. So you pay
for the level of concurrent users you will normally need and your
subscription gives you twice as many for the initial year. We benefited
from this when we subscribed and I know that offer has been extended for
next year's subscription too. I thought it was worth mentioning as lots
of people will be thinking about it.

Beacher Wiggins also mentioned at the Briefing that it is worth speaking
to Troy Linker at ALA Publishing and discussing your institution's needs
as they are trying to be accommodating to specific circumstances.
Beacher said this is what LC will be doing!

Celine


On Apr 18 2011, Helen Williams wrote:

>Thanks for those useful resource links Lucy.  I will be compliling a 
>list of all the resources people mention today, and we will send it 
>round with a summary of the forum on Wednesday.
>
>To pick up your point about the RDA Toolkit.  We haven't yet 
>subscribed, so the only chance I've had to look at it was during the 
>open access period last summer.  That was very helpful, but it wasn't 
>complete, so there are bits I've not seen at all.  I'd be very 
>interested as well to know who else is subscribing or thinks they might

>soon.  I think it will be a little while here, and that I'll probably 
>have to advise on a decision about implementation before I get another
look at it.
>
>Helen
>
>________________________________
>
>From: CIG E-Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of 
>Seale, Lucy
>Sent: 18 April 2011 09:57
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Introduction to RDA eforum today
>
>
>
>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
>
>
>
>
>
>Lucy Seale
>
>Cataloguer
>
>Learning Resources Centre
>
>University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus and University College Falmouth -

>incorporating Dartington College of Arts
>
>Tremough Campus
>
>Treliever Road
>
>Penryn
>
>Cornwall
>
>TR10 9EZ
>
>http://voyager.falmouth.ac.uk/vwebv/searchBasic
>
>
>
>
>
>Tel: 01326 255959
>
>
>
>
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