22.01.2013 13:41, Danskin, Alan:
Richard is right. We are at the tipping point. This year, British Library, Library of Congress, Library and Archives Canada, National Library of Australia and Deutsche Nationalbibliothek will all implement RDA. Other UK legal deposit libraries are also preparing for implementation this year.
As is well known, RDA cannot be applied out of the box but requires a set of guidelines or policy statements, as LC has it, to fix the options and alternatives to be used in-house. Unless you want to leave it all to cataloguer judgement. Will the BL have their own set of statements? Is there any concern with regard to differences between the statements of the implementers? Are these differences expected to be greater or smaller than under AACR? B.Eversberg
