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  • 1.  Workflows

    Posted Apr 15, 2021 10:00 AM
    Apologies if this has been asked before - I'm sure it must have been, but I can't find it - is there any prospect of Global Workflows, as in the old Toolkit, re-appearing in the new one? All I can find are stub-like Policy statements from BL and Loc. Perhaps the "globalness" has been deprecated by the emphasis on communities, but they were a really useful resource.


    Regards,

    Alan


    Dr Alan MacLennan
    Lecturer
    School of Creative and Cultural Business
    Robert Gordon University
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  • 2.  RE: Workflows

    Posted Apr 16, 2021 08:37 AM
    The Documents feature in the new Toolkit "allows users to create documents that can be used privately or shared locally or globally. The document categories are Workflow, Map, Local Policy (not the same as Policies), Training Material, and Reference. These are suggestions; users are not restricted to only these document types."

    For more information, see the Help topic under "Personalizing RDA Toolkit": https://access.rdatoolkit.org/en-US_topic_fvp_tmy_x3b/section_ogf_3ds_4hb, which is the source of the quote above.

    Kathy Glennan
    Chair, RDA Steering Committee

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    Kathy Glennan
    Head, Cataloging & Metadata Services
    University of Maryland Libraries
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  • 3.  RE: Workflows

    Posted Apr 16, 2021 11:08 AM
    Thanks, Kathy
    Iwas actually hoping for something more akin to "British Library monograph workflow", or "Solent University RDA/MARC workflow for print books" or even "RDA 201: Simple book", from the Tools/Workflows/Global Workflows of the original toolkit.


    Regards,

    Alan




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  • 4.  RE: Workflows

    Posted Apr 16, 2021 11:48 AM
    I believe the intent is that documents like that can be shared globally as Kathy described, just as those in the previous version of the toolkit.  Someone just needs to write them, which has not happened yet.

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    Stephen McDonald
    Digital Initiatives Librarian
    Tufts University
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  • 5.  RE: Workflows

    Posted Apr 16, 2021 11:49 AM

    My guess is that as soon as someone creates a workflow document, it will appear in the Toolkit. But at this point, I'm not sure there are really any practitioners who quite understand (yet) exactly how the new guidelines are going to be used in "the real world". ;)

     

    Kevin M. Randall

    Principal Serials Cataloger

    Northwestern University Libraries

    Northwestern University

    www.library.northwestern.edu

    kmr@northwestern.edu

    847.491.2939

     

    Proudly wearing the sensible shoes since 1978!

     






  • 6.  RE: Workflows

    Posted Apr 16, 2021 01:09 PM
    Thanks, Kevin
    As you can imagine, it makes teaching a bit ... hypothetical ...


    Regards,

    Alan


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  • 7.  RE: Workflows

    Posted Apr 16, 2021 01:16 PM
    At the moment, it is indeed mostly hypothetical.  Almost no one is actually using the new RDA Toolkit for active cataloging.  The Library of Congress and PCC are still working on policy statements and workflows for the new Toolkit.  They have not yet set a date for adoption of the new Toolkit.  In the meantime, PCC libraries, and those who follow PCC practices, are still using the old Toolkit.

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    Stephen McDonald
    Digital Initiatives Librarian
    Tufts University
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  • 8.  RE: Workflows

    Posted Apr 17, 2021 02:58 AM
    Thanks very much, Stephen - that's really useful to know.


    Regards,

    Alan




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  • 9.  RE: Workflows

    Posted Apr 23, 2021 04:41 PM

    The PCC Policy Committee has said that PCC will not be implementing the new RDA Toolkit before July 2022. It is my understanding that LC would prefer to train their catalogers in the new RDA using BIBFRAME and not MARC, and this will take some time to do that and create the application profiles for BIBFRAME.

    https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/rda/PCC%20RDA%20guidelines/Post-RDA-Implementation-Guidelines.html
    (See:  Implementation of the New RDA Toolkit)

    Dana Van Meter
    Cataloging Librarian
    Historical Studies-Social Science Library
    Institute for Advanced Study
    Princeton, NJ



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    Dana Van Meter
    Cataloging Librarian
    Institute for Advanced Study, Historical Studies-Social Science Library
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  • 10.  RE: Workflows

    Posted Apr 23, 2021 04:54 PM

    From the same URL in my last message, the document: RDA Beta Toolkit Project: Joint LC/PCC Effort, states that training in the new Toolkit will not start before fall 2021, and possibly later, so it will be some time before LC & PCC adopt the new Toolkit RDA.

    -Dana



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    Dana Van Meter
    Cataloging Librarian
    Institute for Advanced Study, Historical Studies-Social Science Library
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