Martin,
Hello. I understand that at the least the US national libraries, British Library, Library & Archives Canada, and National Library of Australia<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/news_rda_implementation_date.html>, and most of the UK copyright libraries are aiming for implementation on March 31 2013. I certainly know that an awful lot of work and planning has been going on in some of the latter. The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB) are apparently planning to do the same in mid-2013. The PCC<http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/rda/RDA%20FAQ.html#PCCTransition3> are requiring RDA to be used for authorities (although not bib necessarily) from that date too. We are intending to try and implement RDA to some degree in 2013, although I am trying to avoid a big Day 1 and leave aside some of the more tricky materials types and so forth. The main factor for us is that records will be appearing in RDA no matter what we do and that we need to handle them in some way and retaining RDA will avoid an increasing amount of work AARCRising otherwise good records. That said, I think you certainly will "get AACR2 records for another 3 years"; it's just that you're going to get an increasing amount of RDA ones too. Thanks, Tom --- Thomas Meehan Head of Current Cataloguing Library Services University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT t.mee...@ucl.ac.uk -----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Kelleher, Martin Sent: 22 January 2013 10:26 To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] When will RDA truly arrive? Will it truly arrive? 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
