Good afternoon (morning here),

I am at the Bermuda National Library and I would also like to say thanks to everyone who is sharing.  I have just been popping in to monitor the discussions over the last day and a half.  Many of the experiences of the smaller institutions are like ours.  We have 4 people who do the cataloguing but all have other duties as well.  We do not have the funds for the RDA Toolkit so I am relying on the print version - which is not easy to use - and various publications to help to make sense of it all. Policies have been largely developed by me with consultation with my cataloguing staff.  I am in the middle of putting these policies in writing and relying heavily on guidelines produced by other libraries.  We have had a number of formal and informal workshops/discussions to tackle specific and general issues.

At this time, only two of us have created original RDA records but, like all of you, we have imported a lot.  Initially, like one of the other participants, we had to add 260 fields because our LMS did not "understand" 264 but that has since been resolved by the vendor. We try not to make too many changes to imported records unless something seems really wrong. I would say that about 75% of the records we are adding now are RDA.

Thanks again and I too look forward to this afternoon's session.

           Bermuda National Library – Main Line: 441 295-2905

From: CIG E-Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nicky Ransom
Sent: 14 January 2014 08:46
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Subject: Re: [CIG-E-FORUM] Thanks and close of morning session

I just wanted to say thanks to all those who are sharing their experiences this morning. I’m not able to contribute very much as I haven’t started with RDA yet, but it is going to be so useful to take all of your comments into account when I get to RDA later in the year. There may be others like me on the list who are following this e-forum with interest rather than contributing, and I just wanted to let you know that your discussions are very useful indeed!

Looking forward to this afternoon’s session.

Nicky

From: CIG E-Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Young, Thurstan
Sent: 14 January 2014 12:30
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Subject: [CIG-E-FORUM] Thanks and close of morning session

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this morning’s discussion.

We’ll take a break now until 2 pm, when Katrina will introduce productivity as the first topic for this afternoon’s session.

In the meantime, please feel free to continue replying to emails over lunchtime, particularly as I’m sure some people will be using their lunch break to catch up on all the discussion that has taken place this morning.  

Thurstan