MARC Record Examples of RDA Cataloging

In order to facilitate RDA education and training, the Joint Steering Committee tor Development of RDA (JSC) has issued full MARC record examples of RDA cataloging. Each document is bookmarked to allow for easy navigation between examples. Each example includes both a RDA element view and a MARC encoding view of the record. RDA examples

Comparto el Video del webinar "Comprendiendo RDA de forma fácil"  auspiciado por la ALCTS Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, a division of the American Library Association.

Library of Congress preparing for RDA‏

The Policy and Standards Division, part of the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate at the Library of Congress, is launching a new website as the Library prepares for RDA. The site is located at: http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/. There are links to training documents, presentations, exercises, and examples of records as well as to other RDA related sites. Many more links will be added as items are created, edited, and updated as preparations for RDA proceed. The page originally created for LC documentation related to the US RDA Test will no longer be maintained. Links from that site will be migrated to the new site over time as appropriate...

RDA

The Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, and the National Library of Medicine are pleased to issue a statement from the Executives of the three libraries regarding the Report and Recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee on the implementation of RDA-Resource Description & Access. This statement and the Executive Summary of the Committee's Report and Recommendations are being issued to allow interested parties sufficient time to review prior to the upcoming Annual Conference of the American Library Association in New Orleans, June 23 -28. The full Report and Recommendations will be available prior the ALA Annual Conference on the Testing Resource Description and Access Home Page: http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/

An executive summary of the report is available now at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/cataloging/RDA_report_executive_summary.pdf

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Presentación de Troy Linker, Publisher for ALA Digital Reference

AACR2 to RDA Using the RDA Toolkit from ALA Publishing on Vimeo.

It's here! The RDA Toolkit launches Wednesday, June 23

The Co-Publishers of the RDA Toolkit (American Library Association, Canadian Library Association, and CILIP—through its publishing imprint, Facet Publishing) are delighted to announce that the RDA Toolkit is going live Wednesday, June 23. If you have already signed up for free open access, you will receive an email with your login information. For institutional access, an email with login information will be sent to the email address provided during sign-up.

As you use the RDA Toolkit, you'll notice ongoing improvements and additions. We look forward to your feedback. RDA Toolkit highlights to try:
•RDA instructions that are searchable and browseable
•AACR2 Rule Number Search of RDA instructions
•Workflows, mappings: tools to customize the RDA instruction set to support organizational training and processes
•Two views of RDA content—by table of contents and by element set
•Full text of AACR2
If you or your institution haven't yet signed up for free open access through August 31, 2010, please visit www.rdatoolkit.org/openaccess.
Sign up at www.rdatoolkit.org/rdalist to receive information about free trials, special introductory offers (double-user offer for site license subscriptions through August 31, 2011!), webinars, product updates, and more.
Bookmark the informational website www.rdatoolkit.org where you can access webinar archives, an RDA training calendar, presenter/trainer materials, pricing in the major currencies, and more.
If you need to process a subscription before the electronic order form and payment gateway go live in the next few weeks, please contact us via the RDA Toolkit Support Center at www.rdatoolkit.org/support so we can process your order. You will not pay for any part of your subscription that falls within the open-access period; we will extend all subscriptions through at least August 31, 2011.
And if you're attending ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., visit us in the exhibits at booth #2605 for a demo, to chat with ALA Digital Reference Publisher Troy Linker and other staff, and to review an early sample of the print RDA Instructions.

Ponencias y conclusiones del II Encuentro Nacional de Catalogadores

La Biblioteca Nacional nos informa que ya se hallan disponibles en su sitio web las ponencias, presentaciones y conclusiones del II Encuentro Nacional de Catalogadores “La Cooperación y las Normas para la Organización y Tratamiento de la Información en las Bibliotecas Argentinas” realizado en su sede, los días 25, 26 y 27 de noviembre de 2009.

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Reunión de Invierno de la ALA

Tras el post sobre la preconferencia “Living digital”, en este caso queremos destacar algunos de los actos que se celebraron en la Reunión de Invierno de la ALA (ALA Midwinter Meeting) relacionados con los aspectos catalográficos y de normalización de los procesos técnicos. leer más...

Reglas actuales de catalogación

Barbara Tillett presenta, en espanol, un breve panorama de los antecedentes de la reglas actuales de catalogacion y provee una vista "entre bastidores" del desarrollo de la nuevas pautas para catalogación....

Presente y futuro de la catalogación

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Nuevas tendencias en la Catalogación

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