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RDA: Resource Description & Access Community

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RDA: Resource Description & Access, prepared by the Joint Steering Committee for the Development and RDA, is co-published by the American Library Association, the Canadian Library Association, and CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Science Professionals. The purpose of the community is to share guidance and information among implementers of RDA and users of the RDA software.

PostNISO webinar: Bibliographic Control Alphabet Soup: AACR to RDA and Evolution of MARC

by Patrick Hogan (staff) on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 8:13am

Live webinar on Wednesday, October 14, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern (U.S). From the NISO site:

PostBest Links for RDA

by Patrick Hogan (staff) on Wed, 09/30/2009 - 2:55pm

MARS Automation Services blog posted a link round-up here.

PostCCDA, MARBI to trial e-participation

by Patrick Hogan (staff) on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 1:10pm

The ALCTS committees CCDA and MARBI are among a select groups meeting at the ALA Annual Conference who will experiment with electronic participation. The EParticipation Task Force created a Recommendations wiki page - lots of tech tips for those planning or participating.

PostALCTS programs at ALA Annual Conference

by Patrick Hogan (staff) on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 12:41pm

ALCTS programs at Annual Conference

PostUpdates to RDA documents

by Patrick Hogan (staff) on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 12:35pm

Nathalie Schulz, Secretary, JSC posted the following to RDA-L

A number of RDA background documents have been updated in line with the final RDA text supplied to the co-publishers for the first release, including the element analysis and the FRBR and FRAD mappings:

http://www.rda-jsc.org/rda.html#scope

PostRDA Entity Relationship diagrams posted

by Patrick Hogan (staff) on Mon, 07/06/2009 - 2:17pm

Entity Relationship diagrams for RDA are availalbe at rdaonline.org.