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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 is to assure the operational, technical, and economic feasibility of RDA. Testers will include the three national libraries and the broader U.S. library community.
- 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] - Evaluative Factors for US RDA Test: For Continuous Update [MS Excel, 42 KB]
- Proposed Methodology for Testing
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]