The RDA Board in consultation with the Copyright Holders of RDA have determined that a hard date for the removal of the original RDA Toolkit website is needed. This determination was made against a backdrop of giving user communities plenty of time for planning in their transition to official RDA.
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
UPDATE: As of 3pm CST on January 14th, the migration is complete.
The July 2021 release of RDA Toolkit was published on July 15th. It includes the addition of more policy statements from the Library of Congress - Program for Cooperative Cataloging, the British Library and Music Library Association Best Practices.
We have heard from some users that examples have been few and far between. Because the RDA text is still a work in progress on the beta site, it has been difficult to write examples. When the 3R Project is complete we expect there to be many more examples in the new Toolkit as compared to the original one.
Ed Jones, a serials authority in the field and a major contributor to the 3R Project, here updates his authoritative text. Reflecting the new modelling for serials introduced by IFLA’s Library Reference Model in the most recent revisions to RDA, this up-to-date resource is an important tool for day-to-day practice as well as a reference manual for unusual or difficult cases.
The National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa has announced that beginning August 1, 2024, they are using the Official RDA Toolkit to describe print and digital monographs and are aiming to describe all formats using the Official RDA Toolkit by the end of this year.
Friday, June 28, 2024
9:00am -11:30am
Convention Center Room 30 ABCDE
Community Resources is a new area of RDA Toolkit that allows institutions and organizations to share critical cataloging documents for specific communities. In this webinar James Hennelly, director of RDA Toolkit, will demo Community Resources--how it is organized, who will contribute, and what to expect from the documents gathered there.
In 2022, Elisa Sze, Education and Orientation Officer, published a “Report on Approaches to Teaching RDA in the LIS Classroom”.
