RDA Implementation at the Library of Congress (LC)

Dr. Barbara B. TillettChief, Policy & Standards Division, Library of Congress

& Chair, Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDAFor LIANZA (Library and Information Association of New

Zealand Aotearoa) September 2012

US RDA Test - 2010

• 2008 report – Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

• US National Libraries response to test RDA

US RDA Test – LC Support

• LChelp4rda@loc.gov

• Library of Congress Policy Statements (LCPS)

• http://loc.gov/aba/rda/ for LC’s implementation news, training materials, Webcasts, etc.

US RDA Test• 26 participating institutions

– Many types of libraries, archives, museums, book dealers, library schools, system vendors, bibliographic consortia, PCC funnel projects

– 10,570 Bibliographic records– 12,800 Authority records– >8,000 surveys on findings

• Results: improvements needed to RDA Toolkit, to readability of instructions, move beyond MARC, etc.

US RDA Test Recommendations

• Implementation no sooner than January 2013, provided conditions met

• Conditions = recommendations to the – Joint Steering Committee (RDA)– American Library Association Publishers– System vendors– Program for Cooperative Cataloging– Library of Congress, National Agricultural Library,

National Library of Medicine

RDA Implementation

• 9 institutions continued with RDA after the US RDA Test– RDA “Copy” available for cataloging in

OCLC, SkyRiver, etc.

• LC’s RDA Implementation Planning site:

http://loc.gov.aba/rda/

RDA Training Schedule

• Oct.-Dec. 2010 – LC testers

• Oct.-Nov. 2011 – refresher

• June-July 2012 – LC trainers and reviewers; Cataloging Supervisors

• Aug. 2012 reworked modules

• Sept. 2012-March 2013 – LC cataloging staff (approximately 420 people; 60/month)

RDA training

• 36 hours in classroom – FRBR Fundamental Concepts and Practicum– RDA Toolkit– Modules 1-6 on RDA Content– FRBR/RDA/MARC– Guided practice with workplace resources

• 1 month cataloging with RDA (full review of all work) – extended as needed

Original Cataloging• LC’s training materials on LC’s Web site:

http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/

Cataloger’s Learning Workshop

Copy Cataloging

• Document R-4 (LC procedures for copy cataloging with RDA)

• Available at LC’s Web site:http://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/RDA%20training

%20materials/index.html

Under Library of Congress RDA Training Materials, then “R-documents”

LC-PCC PS

• LCPS – document policy decisions regarding use of options and alternatives in RDA– In coordination with the other national libraries on the

JSC

• Adjusted through decisions in the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC)

• Some submitted as proposals to change RDA – (if accepted will remove as LC-PCC PS)

Changes to Voyager (7.2.0)

• LC’s Integrated Library System– Tomcat OPAC and Voyager ‘classic’– “Web authorities” at authorities.loc.gov

• LC/NACO file• LCSH subject authorities

– Voyager tag tables through MARC update 13– RDA-based templates

• Authority: ‘slim’ and ‘verbose’• Bibliographic: AACR2 in process to RDA

– Displays (especially authority displays)

RDA Authority Display

RDA Authority Display

RDA Bibliographic Display

Voyager Indexing

• New MARC 264 (production, publication, distribution, manufacture, and copyright notice statements) – Ex Libris and BIBTEXT – future changes (v8.2)

• LC sent Ex Libris developers a list Aug. 2011 asking to enhance indexing for new fields (v8.2)

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