General information on the US Test of RDA:

							Webliography: Resources for and about RDA and its foundations, the RDA Toolkit,
                            and the US RDA Test



Webcasts: foundations of RDA, changes from AACR2, potential for the future

Resource Description and Access: Background / Overview. Speaker: Barbara Tillett.
Recorded May 14, 2008. Running time: 67 minutes. Available at:
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4320

Cataloging Principles and RDA: Resource Description and Access. Speaker: Barbara Tillett.
Recorded June 10, 2008. Running time: 49 minutes. Available at:
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4327

FRBR: Things You Should Know but Were Afraid to Ask. Speaker: Barbara Tillett. Recorded
March 4, 2009. Running time: 57 minutes. Available at:
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4554

AACR2, RDA, VIAF, and the Future: there to here to there. Speaker: Barbara Tillett for the
NISO Webinar: “Bibliographic Control Alphabet Soup: AACR to RDA and Evolution of MARC”.
Recorded October 14, 2009. Presentation available upon request from B. Tillett
(btil@loc.gov).
        Q&A: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/bibcontrol09/questions/

RDA Changes from AACR2 for Texts. Speaker: Barbara B. Tillett. Recorded January 12,
2010. Running time: 75 minutes (41 minutes of presentation followed by Q&A). Available
at: http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4863

RDA Test “Train the Trainer” (Training modules). Presented by Judy Kuhagen and Barbara
Tillett, January 15, 2010; Northeastern University, Boston, Mass.
Modules 1-9 http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/trainthetrainer.html
          PowerPoint files of the Modules (with speaker’s notes) and accompanying material
          are freely available at: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/RDAtest/rdatraining.html
      Module 1: What RDA Is and Isn’t
      Module 2: Structure
      Module 3: Description of Manifestations and Items
      Module 4: Identifying Works, Expressions, and Manifestations
      Module 5: Identifying Persons
      Module 6: Identifying Families (filmed at the Library of Congress, March 1, 2010)
      Module 7: Identifying Corporate Bodies
      Module 8: Relationships
      Module 9: Review of Main Concepts, Changes, Etc.

RDA: Looking to the Future: Information Systems and Metadata. Speaker: Barbara Tillett.
Recorded March 9, 2010. Running time: 54 minutes. Available at:
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4967


Website for the RDA Toolkit:
http://www.rdatoolkit.org/ (includes webinars about the Toolkit)
        To submit questions about the Toolkit: http://www.rdatoolkit.org/support/

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General information on the US Test of RDA:
http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/


Library of Congress Documentation for the Test:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/RDAtest/rdatest.html
   * Training Materials for RDA Test Participants (Jan. 2010) (PowerPoint files,
     exercises/answers, encoding documents, etc. [webcasts listed below])
  * Training Materials for LC Core RDA Elements (PowerPoint files, exercises/answers,
     encoding documents, etc., for LC testers)
  * Choices in RDA (decisions about additional core elements, application of options and
     alternatives, etc., for LC testers)
  * Examples for RDA - Compared to AACR2
  * Library of Congress Policy Statements (LCPSs) (will be removed because available for
    free in RDA Toolkit -- no subscription needed)
  * Frequently Asked Questions
  * US RDA Test administrative documents (documents from the Test Coordinating
    Committee posted here for public distribution) -- two of general interest because they
    continue through this interim period:
       1. US RDA Test policy for the Extra set: use of existing authority and bibliographic
          records (guidelines for using/modifying existing bibliographic and authority
           records when cataloging the "extra set" category in the Test)
       7. Adding RDA elements/fields to existing OCLC non-RDA records (OCLC’s policy for
           the Test time period)


RDA Test record downloads:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/RDAtest/rdatestrecords.html
        Note disclaimer that records have not been reviewed.


Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC):
http://www.rda-jsc.org/
        Full draft of RDA: http://www.rdaonline.org/constituencydraft/
        ALA representative to the JSC: John Attig (jxa16@psu.edu)


PCC information, policies and practices during the Test and this interim period
        * Resource Description and Access (RDA) and PCC:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/RDA-PCC.html (pointers to documents, webcasts, etc.) --
latest document:
               - PCC RDA Policy and Practice Decisions Needed if RDA is Adopted
(http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/RDA-PCC.html)
        * RDA as modified by CSR: recommended guidelines
(http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/CSR-RDA-Test.pdf)
        * PCC Post RDA Test guidelines (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/PCC-Post-RDA-
Test.html)
        * RDA Resources for Library Directors (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/RDA-
Resources.html)




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