We’re doing about the same as you with imported records.  Our catalogue will always be a mixture of RDA and pre-RDA, so AACR2 records will continue to be acceptable.

 

I have to confess we’re not doing “pure” RDA for certain things.  We still need the 245 $h GMD for ebooks and videorecordings, as our local system (Voyager) really needs that in order for us to look at a search results list either in the OPAC or the staff side and to easily pick out alternative formats.  This is useful for patrons and also to help us choose the correct bib record to link to when placing orders.  We’re possibly migrating to a new system over the next year or so and I’m hoping our replacement will offer an improved display that will allow us to go back and remove the GMDs we’re currently polluting RDA records with ;-)

 

 

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Thanks Katrina,

Yes, we are doing the same with imported records.

If there’s an RDA record available, then we would chose that.  If there’s no existing RDA record, but there is a good AACR2 record, then we would import that as is instead.  We would only upgrade an AACR2 record to RDA where it would have required substantial editing to make it an acceptable AACR2 record anyway.

What are others doing about this?

Helen

 

 

Good morning everyone, Katrina Clifford from Kingston University (one of the co-moderators). Looking forward to a full 2 days of discussion.

 

We’ve moved mostly to RDA – we moved on 1^st October last year. The main exceptions we have are theses which are still AACR2 as they are created through an export from our Research Repository and certain books in the various Special Collections that are being done using DCRM(B). We are though, accepting AACR2 records that are imported as AACR2 and not upgrading them

 

Katrina

 

 

 

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

 

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