Apologies for cross-posting - I realise many (but not all) of you on
this list will already have seen this announcement from the
Co-Publishers of RDA Online.
Hugh Taylor
Head, Collection Development and Description
& CILIP Representative, Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA
Cambridge University Library
West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR, England
email: [log in to unmask] fax: +44 (0)1223 333160
phone: +44 (0)1223 333069 (with voicemail) or
phone: +44 (0)1223 333000 (ask for pager 036)
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Dear Colleagues:
The Co-Publishers of RDA Online (the American Library Association, the
Canadian Library Association, and the Chartered Institute of Library and
Information Professionals) have reached the conclusion that further time
is required to complete the development of the new software that will be
used for distributing the full draft of RDA for constituency review.
The full draft was originally scheduled for release on August 4, 2008.
Instead, it will now be issued in October 2008. The three month time
period allocated for comments on the full draft is unchanged, and in
this new schedule will extend from October into January 2009. More
specific dates for RDA's final release will be forthcoming shortly.
Members of the Committee of Principals (CoP) and the Joint Steering
Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) agree that the importance of
distributing RDA content in a well-developed and tested version of the
new software is such that a two-month delay is justified. They
concluded that this extension is worthwhile given the ultimate value of
the exceptional effort that is going into RDA and feel that the review
by constituencies will be enhanced as a result.
Cordially,
Marjorie E. Bloss, RDA Project Manager
2827 West Gregory Street
Chicago, Illinois 60625
USA
1-733-878-4008
1-773-519-4009 (mobile)
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