This week's interview is with OCLC, the organization behind WorldCat, Connexion and several other library-related products and services. The responses have been provided by Glenn Patton, Director, WorldCat Quality Management Division, OCLC.

Question 1: Is your cataloging system current with MARC 21 updates 9, 10, and 11, which made changes to MARC to accommodate RDA? If not, do you plan to update, and do you have a timeline for updating? Have you made the changes for both bibliographic and authority records?

For details, please follow this link.

We hope that you found the webinar "RDA Toolkit Checkpoint: Where we are and where we're heading" informative and interesting. As with all RDA Toolkit webinars, you can view the recording of the webinar at your convenience. The web video (which includes the Q&A with Beacher Wiggins of the Library of Congress) and slides of this session are available online as well as an archive of all previous RDA Toolkit webinars.

A review of the recommendations from the U.S. Test Committee and recent enhancements to RDA Toolkit

Presented by Troy Linker, Publisher for ALA Digital Reference, on July 12, 2011.

Troy Linker discusses the recommendations of the U.S. National RDA Test Committee and their potential impact on RDA and RDA Toolkit, as well as recent enhancements to RDA Toolkit. Beacher Wiggins, co-chair of the U.S. Test Committee, joins the question and answer session to address specific questions about the Committee's recommendations.