Cataloging Events at ALA Annual Conference 2024
RDA Around the World
Friday, June 28, 2024
9:00am -11:30am
Convention Center Room 30 ABCDE
RDA Toolkit (RDA)
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Explaining Community Resources in RDA Toolkit
Community Resources is a new area of RDA Toolkit that allows institutions and organizations to share critical cataloging documents for specific communities. In this webinar James Hennelly, director of RDA Toolkit, will demo Community Resources--how it is organized, who will contribute, and what to expect from the documents gathered there.
RDA Drupal Sites Have Merged
Two weeks ago rdatoolkit.org, the drupal site that provides news and information about RDA Toolkit, and rda-rsc.org, a drupal site containing updates on the activities of the RDA Steering Committee (RSC), the RDA Board, and the regional committees, were moved to a new server, upgraded to drupal 10, and merged into a single website.
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RDA Toolkit is an integrated, browser-based, online product that allows users to interact with a collection of cataloging-related documents and resources including RDA: Resource Description and keyword searching all documents; the ability to create, store, and share personal and local cataloging documents; and an unlimited number of profiles that allow individual users to set and save personal preferences. Subscriptions to RDA Toolkit are sold by the user. A user is a single access seat to the toolkit.
RDA Handout for Educators and Trainers
In 2022, Elisa Sze, Education and Orientation Officer, published a “Report on Approaches to Teaching RDA in the LIS Classroom”.
March 2024 RDA Toolkit Release
A new release was posted to RDA Toolkit last week. The March 2024 release includes light changes to RDA content, the introduction of the new Community Resources space, and the additon of the Orientation version of the Guidance menu in French and Finnish languages.
RDA Board at ALA Annual Conference
The RDA Board, an international group of library professionals, is responsible for setting the strategic direction for the development of RDA and ensuring good governance of the project. They also have a role to play in raising the profile of RDA in their region.
NARDAC Spring Update Forum 2024
Do you have any questions about the training for the official RDA? What are the most challenging aspects of RDA trainings with the RDA Toolkit? Compared with the original RDA, how can one trainer adapt themselves and train others to use the official RDA Toolkit? If you have those questions, please come to the 2024 NARDAC Spring Update Forum.
Making RDA Work For You: Leveraging the Semantic Coherency of the RDA Element Set
This presentation by Damian Iseminger, the Technical Committee Liaison Officer to the RDA Steering Committee, the structure of RDA, the relationship between entities and their elements, and how this structure might inform decisions about what elements to use. The presentation was given online on February 26, 2024.
