Enjoy Free Open Access to the RDA Toolkit through August 31, 2010

The resource to help you navigate from AACR2 to RDA—the new, unified standard for resource description and access, designed for the digital world and an expanding universe of metadata users.

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RDA Toolkit highlights:

• RDA instructions that are searchable and browseable
• AACR2 Rule Number Search of RDA instructions
• Workflows, mappings, examples: tools to customize the RDA instruction set to support organizational training and processes
• Two views of RDA content—by table of contents and by RDA element set
• What you need to evaluate and implement RDA; to make cataloging decisions based on principles; to increase efficiency; to facilitate collaboration; and to help position the community for the future by making bibliographic data accessible on the Web
• Full text of AACR2

The content of RDA has been developed in a collaborative process led by the Joint Steering Committee (JSC). The project is overseen by the Committee of Principals representing American Library Association, Canadian Library Association, CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, Library of Congress, Library and Archives Canada, British Library, and National Library of Australia. The RDA Toolkit is published by American Library Association, Canadian Library Association, and CILIP (through its publishing imprint Facet Publishing).