Hello What worries me is the existing OCLC policy
"*If a record created according to either AACR2 or RDA already exists in WorldCat, please do NOT create a duplicate record according to the other code. Such duplicates are not within the scope of the OCLC policy on parallel records and OCLC staff will merge them if found. *When performing copy cataloging, catalogers may LOCALLY edit records created under any rules to another set of rules." So for those who don't have their IT departments on board to change to RDA, the burden of stripping and redoing OCLC records from RDA to AACR2 in their local catalog is on the burden of each non-implementing cataloging staff. The same will occur for those converting to RDA when there is an AACR2 record. Once this is done on a revised locally there is no way to share the revised record. Every cataloging department all over the country will be repeating the work which doesn't make sense. I do not see that OCLC is supporting the needs of either the AACR2 or RDA partner libraries under their current policy. Whichever format gets the record in first will have the record in AACR2 or RDA. First come, first served isn't the way a partnership shared database should work. Ida Z. daRoza San Mateo County Library -----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of J. McRee Elrod Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:31 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] If we don't adopt RDA immediately Kathleen Lamantia asked: >If my institution does not buy/adopt RDA immediately thereafter, will we st= >ill be able to do original cataloging? In answer to a question concerning reprospective change to legacy records, OCLC informed me that they will leave AACR2 records as they are, and continue to accept AACR2 records, since they regularly have new libraries join OCLC, which load their legacy records. But purchasing the RDA Toolkit or print version is not required to do RDA compatible records. I'm sending you SLC's RDA cheat sheet. Our experience is that the cheat sheet is far easier to comprehend than RDA. Since the records you are preparing do not require the display of an alternative to GMDs, and are not Bibles or treaties, the differences are not great. Needing to spell our all abbreviations not found in the item is the major change. This is assuming you rarely have a geneology prepared by more than three people, which with AACR2 would be entered under title. With RDA, it would be entered under the first author mentioned, and all authors may be listed in 256/$c and traced. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod (m...@slc.bc.ca) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________
