See our Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative page for information pertaining to the future of MARC and bibliographic control.

Recent Announcements

20 April 2012  RDA Implementation in Libraries Australia

2 March 2012     Library of Congress Announces Its Long-Range RDA Training Plan

22 August 2011  ALA 2011 Report from Chris Todd, National Library of New Zealand, including updates and presentations on RDA, linked data and more!

15 June 2011 Announcing the LC/NAL/NLM RDA Implementation decision

31 May 2011 Message from Chris Todd, National Library of New Zealand, regarding RDA records in the NUC

25 May 2011 RDA and Special Libraries, by Chris Todd, Janess Stewart, and Jenny McDonald. Presented to Wellington SLIS members on May 24th, 2011.

8 April 2011  FRBR and RDA presentations from the Te Puna Libraries Forum 
  

21 February 2011  RDA Webinar emphasises the importance of FRBR. 

The ALCTS webinar,  RDA Ask the Experts, shown on Friday Feb. 18,  included questions on testing and training. The trainers  strongly emphasised the importance of understanding FRBR before using RDA. 

ALCTS have presented a number of webinars on RDA  and there are more planned for March. For details see http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/index.cfm

Day One of the Te Puna Libraries Forum, March 31st includes a practical hands-on workshop on FRBR.  http://www.natlib.govt.nz/services/national-collaborative-services/subscriber-services/te-puna-libraries-forum-2011/programme

The RDA implementation timeline, presented in the RDA update of Nov 18, 2010, remains unchanged.

16 December 2010 ACOC RDA website

1 December 2010 Status of the US RDA Test

18 November 2010  RDA update Nov 18

17 November 2010 Slides for a presentation on RDA for music cataloguers are now available on the presentations page

12 November 2010 Recordings of RDA Toolkit - What's New Since August webinar are available on RDA home page

5 November 2010  RDA Authorities page

16 Sept 2010  Why FRBR entity models matter: FRBR considered as a set relationships.

WEMI posted for interest- another view of how to identify and distinguish works expressions manifestations

http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/frbr-considered-as-set-relationships/

28 July 2010: Update from Te Puna listserv

27 July 2010:  RDA preparation at the National Library 

A summary of work being carried out by senior cataloguers at National Library in preparation for RDA

22 July 2010:   

RDA Train-the-Trainer Webcasts

http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/trainthetrainer.html

Report from the ALA conference - RDA@ALA by Ksenija Obradovic, Cataloguing Manager, the University of Auckland Library

24 June 2010: Link to webinar "Making the most of RDA toolkit's open access period" at  http://www.rdatoolkit.org/training/openaccesswebinar 

17 June 2010: RDA preparation at the National Library

31 May 2010: RDA Training Needs Survey Results(RTF)