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Hello, I'm Head of Bibliographic Services at The London Library. We're a team of 8 cataloguers plus 2 volunteers and we catalogue and classify all new acquisitions and, time permitting, we continue to work on our retrospective cataloguing project. We only switched to RDA at the beginning of this year so it's all very new to us still but we've gone for full immersion so everything we catalogue now, whether new or old, monograph or serial, we do according to RDA. As for awareness and impact of the update, as I say, it's all fairly new to us so this is the first update we've been aware of and I have yet to read through it and see how much of it will affect us directly. Thank you, Gordon, for that link, I think having the background to the changes rather than just a list of them will make them clearer. My initial reaction is that I was hoping the lists of relationship designators would have been expanded because the lack of suitable terms to cater for the scenarios we encounter (conferences and exhibitions, for example) is one of our greatest challenges. I also wonder when the new and revised edition of the paper version of RDA will be available? Thanks, Dunia Dunia Garcia-Ontiveros Head of Bibliographic Services The London Library 14 St. James's Square London SW1Y 4LG Tel. 020 7766 4746 Fax 020 7766 4766 ________________________________ From: CIG E-Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Gordon Dunsire <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 12 May 2015 10:21 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CIG-E-FORUM] Welcome All I think Mark Ehlert’s RDA update reports are a useful source of information about RDA changes. The latest is at https://goo.gl/3Jpxa4 Cheers Gordon From: CIG E-Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bernadette O'Reilly Sent: 12 May 2015 10:12 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [CIG-E-FORUM] Welcome Hello all I work at the Bodleian Libraries, and my main role is to provide training, advice and documentation for cataloguers at the Bodleian and the other Oxford University Libraries (e.g. colleges and departments) about international standards and local policies. Although I am co-moderating today, I have not been involved up till now in the development of RDA. I have just joined the CILIP/BL Committee on RDA, so I am very interested in the development process, both to be aware of changes that I need to tell cataloguers here about and to take a small part in it myself. I’m particularly interested in how best to make sure that I don’t fail to notice any important changes and that I understand whether/ how RDA developments should be implemented in the context of other current standards and guidelines, e.g. MARC and NACO. It looks to me as if the most important change for most cataloguers here will be the end of the ‘CORE IF’ rules for recording copyright/ distribution/ manufacture data in the absence of publication date, and I don’t think anyone will be sorry to see the end of this complication. Our documentation is online, so I will need to update it, and will publicise the changes in our termly ‘miscellaneous mailing’ of news and policy changes. I’m also discussing the changes to additions for personal names with our NACO cataloguers, but this should not affect ordinary cataloguers here, because we ask them to refer difficult access points to specialists. Longer term, I’m wondering what the effect of the new chapter 23 will be on LCSH. Introducing relator terms might make a lot of form and quasi-form subdivisions redundant. Best wishes, Bernadette ******************* Bernadette O'Reilly Catalogue Support Librarian Bodleian Libraries, Osney One Building Osney Mead Oxford OX2 0EW. For cataloguing advice: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> For course enquiries (cataloguing, holdings & items): [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> For other correspondence: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 01865 2-77134 *******************