The U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee issued its first quarterly
update on progress towards carrying out the recommendations made in the
Committee's Final Report issued in June 2011. The progress is very
promising. Because the Library of Congress has such a large contingent
of staff to be trained to apply /RDA/, we have determined that we will
need sufficient lead time to get everyone trained. To set the training
plan in motion, we needed to determine a target RDA Implementation Day
One. As will be seen in the attached plan, we have determined that date
to be */March 31, 2013/*.
LC's partner national libraries (U.S.: National Agricultural Library and
National Library of Medicine; and non-U.S.: British Library, Library &
Archives Canada, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, and National Library of
Australia) have been apprised of our plan and also intend to target the
first quarter of 2013 as their RDA implementation date, i.e., *between
January 2 and March 31, 2013*.
We are now sharing our plan
</aba/rda/pdf/RDA_Long-Range_Training_Plan.pdf> broadly to alert our
various constituencies. By doing so as early as possible, we hope that
this will help others prepare for RDA implementation. As we update the
plan, we will continue to share it, along with documentation, training,
and other related information on LC's Resource Description and Access
(RDA)---Information and Resources in Preparation for RDA Website
(http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/ </aba/rda/>).
BEACHER WIGGINS
DIRECTOR FOR ACQUISITIONS & BIBLIOGRAPHIC ACCESS
