In the Home Stretch: final stages of RDA implementation @ LC
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In the Home Stretch: final stages of RDA
implementation @ LC
Committee on East Asian LibrariesMarch 2013
Tom Yee
LC Policy & Standards Division
RDA Implementation • Implementation decision for RDA made in June 2011
– contingent on continued progress on recommendations from the US RDA Test
• LC and other US National Libraries announce March 31, 2013 as ‘day one’
• US RDA Test Coordinating Committee has verified completion of recommendations – or convincing evidence that completion is sufficiently on
track
LC’s RDA Training Plan
• Based on the promising progress towards carrying out the recommendations from the US RDA Test Coordinating Committee– Need sufficient time to train large staff– Training plan being set in motion– will be adjusted as
necessary
• Goal: Target RDA implementation Day One: March 31, 2013
• LC’s partner national libraries also targeting early to mid 2013
RDA Prep Web Page
LC-PCC Policy Statements
• PSs are policies for use with RDA– Originally developed for LC catalogers during US RDA
Test as Library of Congress Policy Statements
• October: title change to LC-PCC Policy Statements!– Represents a collaborative set of statements for both LC
and the PCC; with clearer labels for applicability
• Major updates : Nov. 2011, Jan. 2012, April 2012, June 2012, Aug. 2012, Oct. 2012, Dec. 2012
LC-PCC PS Development
• Ideas come from: – LC catalogers – LChelp4RDA questions– PSD staff– PCC libraries– PCC task groups– Some changes to PS are triggered by
changes to RDA
Drafting, Negotiation
• LC review: Policy & Standards Division staff, other experts consulted as needed (e.g., CJK catalogers)
• PCC review: PCC Standing Committee on Standards
• Wiki used to track decision making, agree on wording
PCC SCS Wiki
Ongoing RDA Development• Minor typographical errors, bugs - fixes are
incorporated bi-monthly in RDA Toolkit• Fast Track proposal process• Constituency review of major changes and
discussion papers - Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA
• Re-wording of selected chapters by copy editor
• 3 translations ongoing (French, Spanish, German)
Minor errors
• Who: anyone• Triage: publisher• Coding: JSC secretary or
Toolkit programmers
Time: release schedule
Fast Track
• Who: JSC member
• Wiki vote: JSC
• Coding: JSC secretary
• Time: 1 month/release
August-December 2012 RDA Toolkit Releases
• Approximately 200 changed instructions, examples, glossary entries, etc.
Changes based on error reports, Fast Track actions, and Vocabulary development
88 changes ready for first 2013 Toolkit release
Constituency Review Changes2012
• Who: JSC constituencies & community (57)• Review: all constituencies (over 400 documents)• Finalization: JSC meeting (1 week)• Coding: JSC secretary (214 instructions
impacted)
• Time: August-April
Re-wording of selected RDA chapters
– Chris Oliver, McGill University, copy editor– Review by JSC (all chapters) and US RDA Test
participants (selected chapters)– Rewording being rolled out to the RDA Toolkit each
update: December contained (6, 9, 10, 11) – All chapters expected to be published mid-2013
– Goal: make the instructions clearer to the average cataloger, not to change the instructions themselves. Also includes formatting to break-up long or complicated sentences
Translations and more…
• German, French, Spanish– Multilingual interface coming!
• Additional “policy statements”
• Essential RDA
• Element set registry
• Stay Tuned!
Transitions are hard!
• Be patient with yourself (and your reviewers)
• Don’t forget what you already know
• It’s better to do it right the first time, but if you don’t, it can be fixed
• It will get easier!
As always, questions welcome