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Final Report and Recommendations
The Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, and the National Library of Medicine issued a statement from the Executives of the three libraries regarding the Report and Recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee on the implementation of RDA—Resource Description & Access. This statement and the Executive Summary of the Committee’s Report and Recommendations were issued before the Annual Conference of the American Library Association in New Orleans, June 23 -28, 2011.
- Full Report: Report and Recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee (May 9, 2011, revised for public release 20 June 2011) [PDF, 2.7MB]
- Executive Summary: Report and Recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee (June 13, 2011) [PDF, 174KB]
- Response of the Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, and the National Library of Medicine to the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee (June 13, 2011) [PDF, 47KB]
Meeting Summaries from the 2009 ALA Annual Conference
- U.S. RDA Partners Meeting [MS Word, 40 KB]
- U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Commitee Meeting with ILS Vendors [MS Word, 35 KB]
National Libraries RDA Test
In response to concerns about RDA raised by the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, the three U.S. national libraries--the Library of Congress (LC), the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and the National Agricultural Library (NAL)--made a commitment to the further development and completion of RDA. The three libraries agreed to make a joint decision on whether or not to implement RDA, based on the results of a test of both RDA and the Web product. The goal of the test was to assure the operational, technical, and economic feasibility of RDA. Testers included the three national libraries and the broader U.S. library community.
Items listed below were intended for the RDA test only and should no longer be used. Current information is found at www.loc.gov/aba/rda
- About the U.S. National Libraries Test Plan for RDA
- Tentative Timeline for U.S. National Libraries RDA Test
- U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee Members
- U.S. National Libraries RDA Test Partners
- Selected U.S. RDA Test Partners: Systems, Current Rules, Formats To Be Tested [MS Excel, 25 KB] - updated 01/06/11 - Evaluative Factors for US RDA Test: For Continuous Update [MS Excel, 67 KB] - updated 03/31/11
- Proposed Methodology for Testing
- RDA Train-the-Trainer Webcasts
- Library of Congress Documentation for the RDA Test
US RDA Test Administrative Documents
- US RDA Test policy for the Extra set: use of existing authority and bibliographic records [MS Word, 98 KB] (This document contains the guidelines for using/modifying existing bibliographic and authority records when cataloging the "extra set" category in the Test.)
- US RDA Test record collection plan [MS Word, 42 KB] (This document explains the plan for collecting bibliographic and authority records from Test participants and from others who may be interested in contributing their records.)
- US RDA Test Common set criteria [MS Excel, 16 KB] (This document gives the matrix of categories to be used in selecting the resources for the "common set.")
- RDA bibliography for US RDA Test [MS Word, 39 KB] (This document is a bibliography of RDA-related resources.)
- Assigning institution codes and record identifiers [MS Word, 20 KB] (This document gives instructions to the Test participants.)
- Common Original Set and Common Copy Set surrogates [PDF, 62 KB] (This document lists the resources to be cataloged as part of the Common Original Set and Common Copy Set, and includes links to surrogates or Web sites.)
-- Instructions - Common Original Set/Common Copy Set surrogates [PDF, 37 KB] - Adding RDA elements/fields to existing OCLC non-RDA records [MS Word, 100 KB]
- Questionnaire for U.S. Individuals/Libraries Who Want to Comment on RDA [MS Word, 27 KB]
- Overview of the US RDA Test [MS Word, 42 KB]
- RDA Test Record Downloads
