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Thanks for sharing these discussions, Tom. One of the advantages for us of being a slightly later adopter is that we can wait and see what others in the community are doing in terms of policy and cataloguing interpretation decisions and try where possible to follow this lead. Not only will this save us time, but will hopefully ensure consistency between our records and others. So thank you very much to everyone who has been kind enough to share their policy and workflows - the rest of us are all very grateful! Nicky Nicky Ransom Data Quality Librarian | Library & Student Services University for the Creative Arts, Falkner Road, Farnham, Surrey GU9 7DS t: 01252 892739 | e: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> www.ucreative.ac.uk<http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/> One of Europe's leading arts and design institutions, the University for the Creative Arts builds on a proud tradition of creative arts education spanning 150 years. Our campuses at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester are home to more than 7,000 students from more than 70 countries studying on courses in art, design, architecture, media and communications. From: CIG E-Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Meehan, Thomas Sent: 14 January 2014 10:32 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [CIG-E-FORUM] RDA Policy Hello! At UCL (University College London) I started out by comparing policies across LC-PCC PS, the BL, and Cambridge, as well as vanilla RDA in order to try and determine what our policies would be. I was keen to avoid unorthodox and local policies as far as possible, which is easier said than done. A number of us within RLUK have also been trying to establish some form of common policy framework for RLUK contributors to avoid the need for separate libraries to reinvent the policy wheel as well as to promote common practice amongst member libraries. Helen Williams (LSE) and I discussed this with Mike Mertens of RLUK who in July 2013 proposed the following: "With full acknowledgement to Celine Carty at Cambridge, and Cambridge itself for allowing such use, I suggest we take forward the work that Celine and her team have done on RDA, and use the Cambridge Standard Record (http://cambridgerda.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/cambridgestandardrecord.pdf) under licence as the basis for a discussion on replacing the current RLUK Minimum Standards For Bibliographic Records: http://www.rluk.ac.uk/node/300. As far as I have been able to ascertain, the Cambridge work covers the current requirements of the RLUK minimum standard." Although reaction to this has to be honest been rather muted and I'm not sure if this has been followed through at an official level, we have adopted this approach at UCL, supplemented by information in the Cambridge workflow. It has saved us an awful lot of hand-wringing about various details of RDA implementation. Only where we feel there are gaps or we need clarification have we established local policies. Our local policy document is available as a global workflow on the Toolkit as UCL RDA Additional Policy Notes<http://access.rdatoolkit.org/wka1645.html>. There is still much to do, however, especially in more practical matters of accepting, converting, and creating AACR2 and hybrid records. Thanks, Tom --- Thomas Meehan Head of Current Cataloguing Library Services University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> From: CIG E-Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Young, Thurstan Sent: 14 January 2014 10:00 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [CIG-E-FORUM] Welcome to CIG e-forum on adopting and working with RDA - Day 2 Good morning everyone, and welcome to Day 2 of the e-forum. I have posted a summary of the discussions that we had yesterday, so if you want to refresh your memory, or you're joining us for Day 2, then that would be a good place to start. We thought we'd start today with some discussion about RDA policy. In the afternoon we'll move on to productivity/workflows and a summary. To reiterate a few of Helen's comments yesterday morning, these topics aren't set in stone but they will help give some direction to our discussions. 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 lunch break between 12.30 and 2, but please feel free to keep posting over this time as well. So, to kick us off for today, please feel free to introduce yourselves to the list and let us know about how you went about setting internal policy for applying RDA. Thurstan Thurstan Young, Metadata Standards Analyst, Metadata Standards, Building 6, Floor 1, British Library, Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 7BQ Tel.: 01937 546213