Wondering how to help patrons navigate the public catalog for govdocs in the new RDA format? Wondering about cataloging decisions you might have to make when switiching to RDA? Need to know what decisions the federal libraries have made in their conversion to RDA? Come to the GODORT Program RDA and Government Publications, on Monday, June 25, at 10:30, in Room 201 Anaheim Convention Center!
This year’s GODORT Program will demonstrate the implications of cataloging government information in the Resource Description and Access (RDA) environment. Discussion will also address the knowledge required of public services librarians when using RDA. Speakers from GPO, Library of Congress, Marcive and University of Houston will discuss updates and future cataloging decisions for switching to the RDA format.
Participants:
Richard Guajardo is Head of Resource Discovery Systems at the University of Houston (UH) Libraries. Formerly he held positions of Head of Integrated Library Systems, and also Head of Cataloging & Electronic Access. He has presented on topics such as vendor sourced cataloging, mobile technologies, federated search tools, and discovery systems.
Jennifer Davis has worked at the U.S. Government Printing Office for 13 years, as Manager, Bibliographic Control, as well as a supervisor and a cataloger. She has coordinated training of RDA to seek to prepare her team for cataloging Federal government documents using RDA.
Regina Romano Reynolds is director of the U.S. ISSN Center at the Library of Congress and head of LC’s ISSN Publisher Liaison Section. She is a member of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee and co-chaired an internal LC group that recommended LC projects based on the recommendations of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control.
Jim Noël has been MARCIVE’s Manager of GPO Services since 1993. Jim oversees the processing of GPO records for both MARCIVE's regular GPO Services customers and those participating in GPO’s Catalog Record Distribution Project. He earned his MLS at the University of Buffalo, where he was the graduate assistant in Lockwood Library's government documents department. Prior to joining Marcive Jim worked in government documents at Louisiana State University and in the systems office at the University of Rhode Island library.
Come one, come all, and bring your RDA questions, as the panel will be glad to answer anything they can on RDA!
Barbara Miller
Chair, GODORT Program Committee