RDA: Resource Description and Access Library of Congress
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What is RDA? RDA: Resource Description and Access is a new cataloging code that is the successor to Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd edition (AACR2). RDA goes beyond earlier cataloging codes in that it provides guidelines on cataloging digital resources and places a stronger emphasis on helping users find, identify, select, and obtain the information they want. The Library of Congress offers these resources to teach you more about the history and development of RDA and to help you in your own implementation decision.
RDA logo used by permission of the Co-Publishers for RDA (American Library Association, Canadian Library Association, and CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals).
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RDA Changes from AACR2 for Texts
This presentation was made as the United States was preparing to test the new cataloging code, RDA: Resource Description and Access. Barbara Tillett explores the changes from AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed.) that the new code brings. She gives a brief overview of the changed instructions for cataloging textual materials. The presentation lasts 41 minutes, and the Q&A session afterward runs 35 minutes.
Speaker Biography: Barbara Tillett is chief of the Policy and Standards Division, Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate at the Library of Congress. -
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RDA: Antecedents y aspectos de su implementacion
Barbara Tillett presenta, en español, 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 catalogacion: "RDA: Recursos: Descripcion y Acceso." La Dra. Tillett destaca la importancia e influencia en RDA de los Principios Internacionales de Catalogacion de la IFLA y los modelos conceptuales FRBR y FRAD. La videoconferencia fue coordinada por el Departamento de Estado EE.UU. y la Biblioteca Nacional de Chile para las bibliotecas en Chile.
Barbara Tillett discusses the antecedents of the current cataloging rules and provides a behind the scenes look at the development of the soon to be published cataloging guidelines, "RDA: Resource Description and Access". Tillett highlights the importance of the IFLA International Cataloguing Principles and IFLA's conceptual models FRBR and FRAD that focus on user tasks and how this influence has shaped RDA. This presentation was arranged through the US State Dept. and the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile for libraries in Chile and is in Spanish.
Speaker Biography: Barbara Tillett is Chief of the Policy and Standards Division at the Library of Congress. The Policy and Standards Division (PSD) provides cataloging and acquisitions policy library wide; product support and development functions for bibliographic products and tools; processing of subject and classification proposals; LC database record maintenance and error/conflict resolution; and documentation and website maintenance. -
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RDA: Looking to the Future: Information Systems and Metadata
Barbara Tillett presents an update on RDA: Resource Description and Access, the new proposed cataloging code, and its implication, if implemented.
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RDA: Recursos, Descripción y Acceso
Cambios en las pautas de catalogación y desafíos para la implementación. (Speaking in Spanish, Barbara Tillett recreates a presentation she gave in Peru and Costa Rica in the fall of 2010 regarding the proposed cataloging code RDA: Resource Description and Access.)
Speaker Biography: Barbara Tillett is chief of the Policy and Standards Division in the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate of the Library of Congress. -
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FRBR: Things You Should Know, But Were Afraid to Ask
This presentation for non-catalogers is intended to present basic concepts and benefits of using the FRBR conceptual model (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) in resource discovery systems.
Speaker Biography: Barbara B. Tillett is chief of the Policy and Standards Division, Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate, at the Library of Congress. She is an internationally known expert on bibliographic and authority standards. -
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Cataloging Principles and RDA: Resource Description and Access
The second in a series on RDA: Resource Description and Access, the next generation cataloging code designed for the digital environment. This presentation deals with the cataloging principles that have influenced the development of RDA; the challenges they present to the international sharing of bibliographic and authority data; and the challenges they present to the developers of RDA.
Speaker Biography: Barbara B. Tillett is Chief of the Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress.