RDA Notes from GLA/COMO

Video to be available at RDA Cafe on Facebook

Presenters for Emory Theology Library (Emory was a RDA test participant), University of Georgia, GPLS (Georgia Public Library System) and UGA’s Law Library.

Overview:

• Advantages of RDA - benefits to electronic reproductions in that there is no reproduction note, no GMD; benefits for theses & dissertations; granularity for increased searching
• Disadvantages - ambiguoity about publication date
• Carrier must change - impact on systems

Discussion of systems and ILS:

• We should drive the discussion with vendors or they will design for us and it will not be to our best interests

VS

•  We have to wait for vendors to develop systems that will meet requirements of RDA

Emory’s experience

What they found in testing:

• o Advantages (see above)
• o 25 test records+ others including MODS
• o used the webpage to compare AACR2 versions and RDA versions for at least 10 records from common set (given to all testing institutions)
• o “not all that much difference”
• o “will affect us more than the user”
• o Love mapping to MARC
• o Toolkit needs more examples esp. outside of print
• o Workflows a very useful tool

Where they are now:

• Decision to postpone adoption until LC statement
• No longer producing RDA records
• existing RDA records in OCLC used without conversion

GPLS

• Discussion of GPLS Cataloging Summit
• Resource bibliography distributed
• Working on a GPLS Policy Statement, similar to LC
• Discussion on training - preconference training @ COMO 12?

UGA Law Library

Where they are:

• Change RDA records to AACR2 to use as training examples
• Will adopt RDA when LC does
• Discussion of training - Free RDA training at AALL

UGA

Where they are:

• Information gathering phase
• Original catalogers are reviewing records for materials with copy
• Records often a mix of RDA and AACR2
  Headings sometimes RDA though the record is AACR2