Toot on. If you don't who will. It has already been passed on to the discussion list of our OPAL group of libraries that's a sub-group of OhioLink, and I thank you for encouraging that. Although I don't fully share your overall positive endorsement of RDA, that's probably water over the dam. I will agree that it is a very, very good presentation. I think you have managed to synthesize a lot of information in a concise understandable manner. Just to point out a couple of places where I think maybe is a bit ambiguous. In your side by side comparision, where on the left you listed for AACR the See reference, and on the right Variant access point for RDA, perhaps it would be closer to compare the See Also to RDA Variant Access point? Only other place I noticed some ambiguity is between the terms of Equipment and Housed In. For the 337 field, instead of What equipment is need, perhaps What type of media, or mediation, or intermediate means? I don't think any of these terms are entirely clear either, but that's all I can think of. Jack Jack Wu Franciscan University of Steubenville [email protected]
>>> "MCCUTCHEON, SEVIM" <[email protected]> 9/11/2013 2:44 PM >>> At the risk of tooting my own horn, I’ve uploaded a YouTube video which I hope will help in the efforts to provide training in RDA, “Resource Description & Access (RDA) Basics for Copy Catalogers,” http://youtu.be/6IUyBaDdc8c It is 55 minutes long. Our motivations for creating this video were multiple: here at Kent State University, the Technical Services Department needed a way to train new staff and graduate student assistants. Having them watch a video is more efficient than providing face-to-face instruction for each new person. Second, results of a survey done in late 2012 showed that nearly a third of Ohio public library catalogers had never heard of RDA at the time of the survey.* We wanted to provide something to aid all kinds of catalogers – public, school, you name it – in getting comfortable with RDA. Please feel free to share this link with other discussion lists. I’d appreciate it especially if people would pass the link on to discussion lists for public and school librarians. (Ms.) Sevim McCutcheon Catalog Librarian, Assoc. Prof. Kent State University Libraries 330-672-1703 [email protected] *Lambert, Frank P., Panchyshyn, Roman S., McCutcheon, Sevim. “Resource Description and Access and Ohio Public Libraries.” Public Library Quarterly 32(3) (September 2013) p. 187-203. Scanned by for virus, malware and spam by SCM appliance
