RDA Toolkit Update ALA 2012 Midwinter Meeting

Presented by

Troy LinkerPublisher, ALA Digital Reference

American Library Association

Session Agenda

• RDA Toolkit Releases• Recent RDA Toolkit Improvements• RDA Rewording • Planned RDA Toolkit Improvements• Questions

RDA Toolkit Releases

• Monthly• 8 – 10 per year• Second Tuesday of the month• JSC Fast Track changes• RDA Updates (tentatively April & October)• Instruction revision history for RDA Updates

Recent RDA Toolkit Improvements

• Chapter paging• Icons in GUI• Resume timeout • Expanded TOC• Development blog

• Virtual User Group• Revised & updated

RDA Toolkit Help• RDA Toolkit Essentials

webinars

RDA Rewording

• Chris Oliver chosen as Copy Editor• Chapters 9, 10, 11, 6, 17 will be first• First five chapters submitted to U.S Test

Committee by June 2012• Cooperation and coordination between Copy

Editor, JSC, and U.S. Test Committee

Upcoming RDA Toolkit Improvements

• RDA record examples• First RDA Update• Improved RDA Toolkit

training

• More user selectable options

• Integrate French, German and Spanish translations

Questions?

Thank You!

For more information please visitwww.rdatoolkit.org