CILIP Executive Briefing - RDA: Resource Description and Access – Meeting the challenges of strategic change

Tuesday 23 March 2010

7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Library managers face major challenges and key decisions in the lead up to the implementation of RDA: Resource Description and Access. Its launch in June 2010 will be one of the biggest changes in standards for bibliographic data management and access since MARC21 a decade ago.

RDA’s launch is expected to transform cataloguing standards that have been virtually unchanged for 30 years. Existing standards, as laid out in the Anglo American Cataloguing Rules, have struggled to keep pace with new publishing formats and new publishing practices. RDA will provide a more flexible framework for resource description and access, and make bibliographic information accessible on the web.

To help all those affected get to grips with this major strategic development, CILIP has secured leading experts from across the library and information community for a new Executive Briefing. Titled RDA: Meeting the challenges of strategic change, it will be presented in London on 23 March, and look at the new cataloguing code and its implications, highlighting the issues that really matter to those working at a strategic level. 

This event focuses on:

• a look at how RDA will affect the cataloguing community
• an exclusive video presentation from Shawne Miksa – Associate Professor at the University of Texas
• the impact of RDA on practitioners
• an exclusive demonstration of the new RDA software

For further details on this event and how to book your place, visit www.cilip.org.uk/rda2010