NEWS: Effective April 1, 2013, online access to AACR2 is exclusive to RDA Toolkit

• Cataloger's Desktop subscribers with RDA Toolkit subscriptions will continue to have online access to AACR2. See announcement from Cataloger's Desktop.
• RDA Toolkit introduced enhancements to its AACR2 display in December, 2012. Learn more about AACR2 in RDA Toolkit.

RDA Implementation: As of April 1, 2013 the U.S. Library of Congress and the British Library are using RDA as their official descriptive cataloging standard. Read the announcements from the Library of Congress and the British Library. Click here to follow who has implemented RDA or has plans for implementation.

The May RDA Toolkit release was published on May 14th. It included the full rewording of RDA as well as French and German language versions of RDA. Full details of the release are available on the Development Blog.

On Our Blog: Video Help

Full MARC record examples of RDA cataloging now available

Read more about the examples on our blog, or go straight to the examples.

The video and slides of the March 20th presentation of RDA Toolkit Essentials are now available. This bimonthly webinar serves as an introduction and guide to using RDA Toolkit and will cover the variety of content available on the site and offer tips on searching and navigating. The next RDA Toolkit Essentials webinar will be held Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 9:30 pm CDT (GMT -5) - REGISTER

The March 12th meeting of the Virtual User Group is now archived. The archive includes a video of the webinar, as well as the slides and agenda.

Get Your Bookmark! Our icon menu bookmark has been a big hit. You can download your own here. Simply print out this pdf, preferably on card or cover stock, letter-sized paper, then cut along the guides to create four bookmarks.