Hi all We're going through a 'library review' here at the University of Liverpool, which will include a substantial change in responsibilities, including a switch from predominantly professional staff cataloguing to nonprofessional staff, at least for copy cataloguing.
At the moment, the plan is to train everyone in AACR2, because RDA never really seems to actually arrive. It officially arrived 2-3 years ago, yet the cataloguing world and it's records barely appeared to register it - first there was the lengthy wait for LoC, NLM the BL and all the other big libraries to accept it, then the revision, and then there were proclamations of when they were to be adopted... this year - April, I think? Is this genuinely going to be the case? Are there going to be further delays?? I don't want to push for the implementation of RDA if we're still predominantly going to get AACR2 records for another 3 years! Best wishes Martin Kelleher Electronic Resources/Bibliographic Services Librarian University of Liverpool
