RE RDA
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From: Kelley L Lasher
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 12:48 PM
To: Charles F Tremper
Cc: Barbara Ann Opar
Subject: RE: [ARLIS-L] RDA and art libraries?
Charles,
I don't have any information specific to art/visual resources. The student could explore RDA Toolkit:
http://summit.syr.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=3141697
I didn't see much in the way of defined workflows for visual materials in the tools tab though. I think since RDA has not been adopted yet we are not to the point of having much of a knowledge base, especially when we are talking about specific areas of cataloging. Even with Continuing Resources, which I am familiar with, there is not much to go on. Testing just wrapped up, so there is not much experience to pull from. The UK or Australia might be a bit ahead of us.
I wasn't sure if someone from MLA would have any information. Nothing on their site jumped out at me.
Kelley
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles F Tremper
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 11:22 AM
To: Kelley L Lasher
Cc: Barbara Ann Opar
Subject: FW: [ARLIS-L] RDA and art libraries?
Kelley--with your experiences, can you offer any info here?
Thanks chas
-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Ann Opar
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 9:36 AM
To: Charles F Tremper
Subject: FW: [ARLIS-L] RDA and art libraries?
Any thoughts? Barbara
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From: ARLIS/NA List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Heidi Rempel
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 11:53 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [ARLIS-L] RDA and art libraries?
Hi all,
I'm a second-year MSLIS distance student at Syracuse University,
taking cataloging this semester. We've been asked to deal with a
cataloging area that can cause issues, and as a music librarian friend
of mine said that RDA was one of the hot discussion topics at MLA this
year, I thought I'd tackle how art librarians are dealing with/going
to deal with RDA.
Of course, as RDA is still so new, relatively speaking, I've had no
luck whatsoever finding any discussion of RDA and visual resources/art
libraries in published library literature. I'll readily admit that
this might be due to some issue with my research technique or, as
seems to be the case for music librarianship, due to the fact that
it's so new. I'd especially like to focus on digital resources, if
possible, as I'm doing a certificate of advanced studies in digital
libraries and would like to have that additional facet.
I'm hoping that the list might be able to provide me with some leads,
as RDA (and cataloging in general) is still mostly a mystery to me,
and I'm just not going to be successful at understanding the issues
from scratch, knowing RDA as little as I do. I'm doing my background
reading, obviously, but am struggling to find information specifically
applicable to art librarianship. I'd prefer not to change my topic,
as this seems eminently useful to know, but if there ARE no cataloging
issues, it would be especially helpful to have someone tell me that
sooner rather than later! My professor isn't familiar enough with RDA
or art librarianship to give me much input on this, so I'm on my own.
Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated!
My thanks in advance.
-Heidi Rempel
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