Community Resources Plan
After discussions with the RSC regarding the Community Resources (CR) area of RDA Toolkit, the following plan has been established to address CR structure and services.
CR Goals and Requirements
News
Register for the Free Fall NARDAC Update Forum
The North American RDA Committee (NARDAC) will host the regional representatives from Europe (EURIG) and Oceania (ORDAC), the members of the RDA Steering Committee (RSC), and PCC RDA Testing Task Group as speakers at the 2022 NARDAC Fall Update Forum.
New Translation Agreement for RDA
ALA Publishing, acting on the behalf of the Copyright Holders of RDA: Resource Description and Access, has signed an agreement with Federação Brasileira de Associações de Bibliotecários (FEBAB) in which the São Paulo-based organization will be responsible for the translation of the Portuguese-language version of the cataloguing, RDA: Resource Descriptio
New RDA Toolkit Demo Debuts on YouTube September 30th
Now ready for listening and viewing on our YouTube channel, the latest RDA Toolkit demo is an English-language refresher on the features and functions of the official RDA Toolkit.
September 2022 RDA Toolkit Release
A new release of RDA Toolkit was posted on September 28, 2022.
Register for Cataloging Video Resources with RDA and MARC21: Best Practices
Please register for the October ALA eLearning webinar Cataloging Video Resources with RDA and MARC21: Best Practices here.
Update: Concurrency Reports Now Available
UPDATE: RDA Toolkit concurrency reporting is now available through the LibLynx admin site. How to access LibLynx is described below. Once you are logged in you can select the Usage Control tabs. There you will find graphs tracking daily peak concurrency over the past 30 days and monthly peak concurrency for the past 12 months.
Now Available: August 1st Webinar and Usage Statistics
ALA Digital Reference's webinar series continued Monday, August 1, 2022 at 11 AM CT/Chicago time with Damian Iseminger's virtual iteration of his #ALAAC22 program RDA Linked Data Forum. Damian presented on how RDA and RDA Toolkit are now optimized for linked data environments in the wake of the 3R Project and answered related questions from the audience live.
Experience RDA Events at #ALAAC22 This Month
RDA educational programs sponsored by the American Library Association will be presented at ALA Annual in Washington, DC June 24th through June 27th.
View Our May 25th Ask Us Anything (Zoom)
ALA Digital Reference and the RSC presented Ask the RDA Steering Committee Anything about RDA Wednesday, May 25, 2022 from 10 AM to 11 AM Chicago time.
