What needs doing with your web catalog depends entirely on your vendor. It is very likely to take a telephone call or an online contact to the company to say you want the RDA tags made workable in your system. The vendor probably will know what fields these are but might need a list of fields you want activated.
The formal "test" creation of RDA records ends at the end of December 2010. Then the results will be studied for several months and a report written up. A decision - whether or not RDA will be adopted by the US national libraries, and if it is adopted, whether this will be as-is or with further revisions - is expected to be make public no later than June 2011, as I understand. Jean Harden, Music Catalog Librarian Libraries University of North Texas 1155 Union Circle #305190 Denton, TX 76203-5017 (940) 565-2860 jean.har...@unt.edu<mailto:jean.har...@unt.edu> From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:rd...@listserv.lac-bac.gc.ca] On Behalf Of Jeff Peckosh Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 4:23 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: [RDA-L] Web catalog Do we need to have anything done with our web catalog to make it friendly with RDA tags or should we assume that it will work fine automatically? Also, do we know when the testing and everything will be finalized, and that we will start cataloging in accordance to RDA? Thanks for your help, Jeff Peckosh Public Library Cataloging Librarian
