Hi Effie,

 

We’re much, much smaller than you, but when I was talking to my old boss at University of Maryland (he was a special collections cataloger) he said they just went through: http://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/RDA%20training%20materials/LC%20RDA%20Training/LC%20RDA%20course%20table.html and that’s what we did. I’m not sure if they had any training for non-catalogers there… at least here no user has noticed a difference (it’s not like subject analysis is any different).

 

Even though we’ve made the switch we’re still pulling in AACR2 copy if it’s good under those rules. If we are editing and upgrading the record then obviously we change it to RDA. I can tell you that there doesn’t seem to be much official documentation to help catalog special materials under RDA… it looks like it’s all currently being updated (like ARLIS/NA Cataloging for a close to home example).

 

It’d be great if you could share a summary of your responses!

 

Best,

 

Heather

 

Heather Slania

Director of the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center

 

National Museum of Women in the Arts

1250 New York Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20005

(202) 266-2807

 

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From: ARLIS/NA List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Effie Patelos
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 10:39 AM
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Subject: [ARLIS-L] Help with RDA implementation planning

 

Hello everyone,
 
Here at the Canadian Centre for Architecture we have accepting, revising and also, to some extent, creating bib and authority in RDA. The technical services team has been doing this without officially implementing RDA, or going through formal training. Each cataloguer has been "self-training" as they go along, and because we have limits to what each of us know, we are still adding AACR2 and hybrid records to our online catalogue. As the amount of derived records we are receiving from OCLC in RDA format is increasing at an exponential rate, our team has come to the conclusion we have to make the "switch" officially.
 
My college and I have been tasked with drafting a RDA implementation document, with a goal of “Day one for RDA” sometime in the summer of 2015. Our document needs to address staffing hours; implications for the public catalogue,on technical services (cataloguing and acquisitions), reference staff, IT, and researchers; timeline; a training curriculum for cataloguers, IT, reference staff, and internal researchers (since our library resources are used for developing exhibitions and publications); existing RDA training resources; and the decisions we have to make (ex. what are our core RDA fields, will we machine convert existing AACR2 records to RDA, what fields to display in the public catalogue).
 
I know that many of the larger library systems, particularly academic libraries implemented RDA starting earlier in 2012 and 2013. Would anyone be willing to share their library's RDA implementation plan, or any other materials you used for planning? It would be especially helpful if we could find examples from peer museum institutions, or art school libraries who have smaller staff contingents, and collect special materials. I've not been find anything in the LIS literature about RDA implementation in special, architecture, art, or museum libraries.
 
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Effie Patelos

Catalogueur

Cataloguer

 

Centre Canadien d’Architecture

Canadian Centre for Architecture

T 514 939 7001 x 1368

www.cca.qc.ca

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