Hi,

I’m a solo librarian at a small charity library where I’m doing all original cataloguing.  I’m in the middle of a giant stockcheck and it would be good to “future proof” the work I’m doing by implementing RDA but I can’t afford access to the Toolkit so I’m a little stuck.  I have implemented small changes (e.g. get rid of rule of 3 for authors, illustrated instead of ill.) but I’m wondering where to take it next.  I need to decide whether to push the trustees to invest the money in RDA but I would need to prove the benefits for the collection and the users so I’m interested to hear how it is going at other libraries, particularly in rare books and special collections.

I’m also limited by the fact I have to do everything else as well as the cataloguing, so finding time to sit down and think about completely revising that is a problem in itself…

Jennie Hillyard  (@mininglibrarian)

Librarian

North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers

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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

LSE Library Services

The London School of Economics and Political Science

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