Dear all,
Hello. We are currently in the process of implementing and training for RDA at UCL (University College London). We are taking this slowly and piecemeal, prioritising print monographs with a few teams for now
while building up experience and expertise as well as deciding basic policy. We are deliberately leaving certain categories of material aside for now although I would like to look into ebooks and videos next, both of which could do with some attention anyway
with regards to policies while also potentially benefitting more from changes in RDA than print monographs. Aside from some very general training on RDA and FRBR some time ago, we have pursued practical sessions, discussing records and issues amongst the team.
I hope to start RDA cataloguing in anger, although hopefully not angrily, in the next month or so. Even then, I think we will be accepting and editing records in AACR2 for some time to come, and we will work on shifting that balance over time.
Although the discussion on policy is due tomorrow morning, I wanted to at least say that the whole process has been made a lot easier by our decision to follow Cambridge’s standard record as made freely available
on the Cambridge RDA site and by the availability of the associated Cambridge workflow on the Toolkit. Open documentation provided by LC, the BL, Oxford, and others, and an associated general willingness
among cataloguers to share thoughts and experiences have also been invaluable.
Thanks,
Tom
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Thomas Meehan
Head of Current Cataloguing
Library Services
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
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Subject: [CIG-E-FORUM] CIG e-forum on adopting and working with RDA - welcome
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
LSE Library Services
The London School of Economics and Political Science
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London WC2A 2HD
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