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One thing that I have found heartening in the Exec Briefing talks and other feedback from US Test institutions is that nobody really devised completely in-house training materials and documentation. Everyone seems to have been able to adapt and re-purpose the huge amount of material that is freely available online (especially from LC) or within the Toolkit workflows (again from LC though hopefully the BL is going to release some of their workflows too) - admittedly the ones in Toolkit require access to Toolkit itself which is another issue. I'm hopeful that at least the bulk of training can be done through materials already available and that this will reduce the impact somewhat. There will still be the obvious need to look at all in-house documentation, instructions, workflows, etc to adapt to the new environment (even if not dealing with RDA, there will be RDA records arriving from various sources as we've already seen). Again, I have hope that sharing practice, especially between similar institutions (academic libraries, public libraries, etc) will ease the burden here too? Celine -- Céline Carty English Cataloguing Cambridge University Library Cambridge CB3 9DR