Hi there

 

At the University for the Creative Arts, I am planning to introduce RDA for original cataloguing at some point this year, probably in the summer. It will only be myself cataloguing in RDA to start with, and I will only be introducing it for books initially, so I have only got myself to train! We have been accepting RDA records since they started appearing in downloaded records.

 

I’m looking forward to hearing about others’ experiences, and using this to kick-start my preparations.

 

Nicky

 

Nicky Ransom

Data Quality Librarian | Library & Student Services

University for the Creative Arts, Falkner Road, Farnham, Surrey GU9 7DS

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Good morning and welcome to the CIG e-forum on adopting and working with RDA.  I’ll be co-moderating along with Thurstan Young from the British Library, and Katrina Clifford from Kingston University and we’ll be here between 10am and 4pm over the next couple of days.  We’re delighted to have a number of people signed up to the e-forum and are looking forward to sharing knowledge, experience and questions as we consider the following topics: 

 

Monday morning: Planning and preparation

Monday afternoon: Training

Tuesday morning: Policy

Tuesday afternoon: Productivity/workflows and summary.

                                                                                                                          

This will help give some direction to our discussions but they aren’t set in stone, so don't feel you can't post something you wanted to talk about if you are only around at a particular time of day.  If you're posting about something new, then please give your subject header a relevant title so that those participating can keep track of conversations more easily.   We’ll have a lunchbreak between 12.30 and 2, but please feel free to keep posting over this time as well. 

 

On a practical note it might be worth me mentioning at the start of the day that messages sometimes take a little while to appear on JISCmail lists, so if your message doesn't appear straight away then please don't worry or re-send.  We're not moderating the list, so it will get through.  

 

So, to kick us off for today, please feel free to introduce yourselves to the list and let us know where you are up to with your RDA implementation or plans.  Have you moved to RDA yet, and if so, when?  If not, do you have a date in mind when you are planning to move to RDA?  And are there people who aren’t planning to move to RDA at all? 

 

Helen

 

Helen Williams

Assistant Librarian, Bibliographic Services

 

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The London School of Economics and Political Science

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