Good morning, Thanks Helen. I'm Thurstan Young, a Metadata Standards Analyst at the British Library. I've been involved with RDA for the last five years, previously as the Library's RDA Implementation Project Coordinator. I also served as Secretary to the Joint Steering Committee on RDA between 2009 and 2012. I look forward to the next two days of discussion. Best regards, Thurstan Thurstan Young, Metadata Standards Analyst, Metadata Standards, Building 6, Floor 1, British Library, Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 7BQ Tel.: 01937 546213 From: CIG E-Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Helen Williams Sent: 13 January 2014 09:45 To: [log in to unmask] 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 10 Portugal Street London WC2A 2HD [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> 020 7955 2998 Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://lse.ac.uk/emailDisclaimer