If an institution has librarians who are testers and others who are not
testers, should we sign up for institutional access for those who are not
involved in the test process ?
Thanks
Kate
On Thu, 20 May 2010, Troy Linker wrote:
Sign up now and you'll be ready for the start in mid-June of free open
access to the RDA Toolkit!
The Co-Publishers invite you to try the RDA Toolkit at no cost from the
launch in June through August 31, 2010. Sign up now and we'll send you
an email with your login information as soon as open access becomes
available in mid-June. We are opening the sign-up process early to allow
institutions time to coordinate their requests for institutional access.
Please sign up the same way you plan to subscribe.
* Institutional access if there will ever be more than one user
at your site (institutional access typically uses IP authentication or a
referring URL).
* Solo-user access if you will only have one user at your site
(login/password authentication only).
Most users should sign up for institutional access. Why?
* Your institution can have an unlimited number of concurrent
users during the open-access period
* You and your colleagues can test the sharing of workflows and
mappings within your institution
* You and your colleagues can take advantage of IP
authentication or a referring URL to avoid institutional login (users
will just log in to access their personal profile)
* You and your colleagues can participate more smoothly in your
institution's decisions regarding RDA implementation
Sign up now and look forward to getting your login information in
mid-June.
RDA Toolkit www.rdatoolkit.org
The resource to help you navigate from AACR2 to RDA-the new, unified
standard for resource description and access, designed for the digital
world and an expanding universe of metadata users. As you use the RDA
Toolkit, you'll notice ongoing improvements and additions.
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Resource Description and Access (RDA) and the RDA Toolkit are published
by the Co-Publishers for RDA (the American Library Association, the
Canadian Library Association, and Facet Publishing, the publishing arm
of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information
Professionals).
Kind regards,
Troy Linker
Publisher, ALA Digital Reference
American Library Association
(312) 280-5101
www.rdatoolkit.org www.guidetoreference.org
Kate Harcourt
Director, Original and Special Materials Cataloging
102 Butler Library
Columbia University Libraries
phone: 212.854.2714
fax: 212.854.5167
