Preparing for RDACorinne JacoxCatalog/Reference LibrarianCreighton University Law Library

Preparing the ILS

• New fields, subfields, etc.– OCLC Technical Services Bulletins 257,

258, 260– MARC Standards website

• RDA in MARC

• Can your system accept the new fields?– What to display and index?

• What is your ILS Vendor doing to prepare for RDA?– RDA Toolkit Blog– Talk to your vendor

Preparing the ILS – Authority Control

• Split Authority File– Brigham Young University. b Department of Agronomyǂ– Brigham Young University. b Dept. of Agronomyǂ

– Bible. p O.T. p Estherǂ ǂ– Bible. p Estherǂ

– Calderon, Juan Antonio, d fl. 1611́ ǂ– Calderon, Juan Antonio, d active 1611́ ǂ

– Outsourcing• Talk to your vendor

– More Robust Authority Records• Will your system accept and use the information?

Discovery Tools

• Serials Solutions– Summon

• Ebsco– EDS

Local Decisions

• Will you use RDA?• When to start using RDA?

– Training

• Cataloging Records– Transition

• Accept RDA records as is?• Edit RDA records?

– More Cataloger’s Judgment• [et al.]

– Purchased Cataloging Records

• Updating Manuals

Keeping Current

• RDA Toolkit Blog• IFLA’s Functional Requirements for Bibliographic

Records• Library of Congress

– Information and Resources in Preparation for RDA

• Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA• Facebook

– RDA Cafe

• Blogs– Celeripedean