LC training materials and webcasts

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US Test of RDA 2010

General information on the US Test of RDA:

http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/

Library of Congress Documentation for the RDA Test:

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/RDAtest/rdatest.html

Library of Congress Choices for the RDA Test:

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/RDAtest/rdachoices.html

RDA Content help: LChelp4rda@loc.gov

Webcasts

Resource Description and Access: Background / Overview. Speaker: Barbara Tillett. Recorded May 14, 2008. Running time: 67 minutes. Available at: http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4320

Cataloging Principles and RDA: Resource Description and Access. Speaker: Barbara Tillett. Recorded June 10, 2008. Running time: 49 minutes. Available at: http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4327

FRBR: Things You Should Know but Were Afraid to Ask. Speaker: Barbara Tillett. Recorded March 4, 2009. Running time: 57 minutes. Available at: http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4554

AACR2, RDA, VIAF, and the Future: there to here to there. Speaker: Barbara Tillett for the NISO Webinar: “Bibliographic Control Alphabet Soup: AACR to RDA and Evolution of MARC”. Recorded October 14, 2009. Available through October 2010 at: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/niso/view?id=2JTZCS&pw=B%22f%3F8M8

Q&A: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/bibcontrol09/questions/

RDA Changes from AACR2 for Texts. Speaker: Barbara B. Tillett. Recorded January 12, 2010. Running time: 75 minutes (41 minutes of presentation followed by Q&A). Available at: http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4863

RDA: Looking to the Future: Information Systems and Metadata. Speaker: Barbara Tillett. Recorded March 9, 2010. Available at: http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4967

RDA Test “Train the Trainer” (Training modules). Presented by Judy Kuhagen and Barbara Tillett, January 15, 2010; Northeastern University, Boston, Mass.

Modules 1-9 http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/trainthetrainer.html

PowerPoint files of the Modules (with speaker’s notes) and accompanying material are freely available at: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/RDAtest/rdatraining.html

• Module 1: What RDA Is and Isn’t
• Module 2: Structure
• Module 3: Description of Manifestations and Items
• Module 4: Identifying Works, Expressions, and Manifestations
• Module 5: Identifying Persons
• Module 6: Identifying Families (filmed at the Library of Congress, March 1, 2010)
• Module 7: Identifying Corporate Bodies
• Module 8: Relationships
• Module 9: Review of Main Concepts, Changes, Etc.

RDA Demo (from ALA Publishing): http://www.rdatoolkit.org/training/guidedtour

Most of LCs music RDA records were distributed and can be found in OCLC Connexion with other RDA test records using the command search dx:rda/sco.

In LC’s web site, you can limit for scores and manuscripts and search rda as a keyword in the Basic Search box. Select MARC tags for the best view. Please be aware that not every record is complete, due to Preferred title problems, and that some basic cataloging decisions were changed as we went along, so not everything is consistent from record to record. This WAS a test, after all.