Cataloging Futures

New LC webcast: RDA changes from AACR2 for texts

Barbara Tillett, chief of the Policy and Standards Division, Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate at the Library of Congress., speaks about RDA in this newly available webcast:

RDA Changes from AACR2 for Texts

As the United States begins to prepare to test the new cataloging code, RDA: Resource Description and Access, this presentation explores the changes from AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed.) that the new code brings. The focus of this presentation is a brief overview of the changed instructions for cataloging textual materials. The presentation lasts 41 minutes, and the Q&A session afterward runs 35 minutes.

h/t ResourceShelf

Bibliographic control webinar Q&A

Interesting Q&A follow-up from last month's NISO webinar: Bibliographic Control Alphabet Soup: AACR to RDA and Evolution of MARC. Barbara Tillett and Diane Hilmann weigh in on a variety of questions.

Barbara Tillett: RDA is not a format. It's a set of cataloging instructions on the identifying characteristics for the things we wish to control in the bibliographic universe. If you still are using an ILS when you start describing things according to RDA, you'd still be using MARC bibliographic records and MARC holdings records (and MARC authority records) for the foreseeable future. [emphasis added]

Looks like the immediate future's not so scary, changey after all!

h/t Notatu Dignum

New LC webcast: FRBR for non-catalogers

In this new Library of Congress webcast, Barbara Tillett presents an overview of FRBR for non-catalogers. It's about a hour long. Tillett walks the viewer through the basics of FRBR. Highly recommended viewing!

Via ResourceShelf

Barbara Tillett's RDA webcasts

I always blog about "essential reading," well here's some essential watching.

Barbara Tillett, Chief of the Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress, speaks about RDA in these two new webcasts:

Resource Description and Access: Background / Overview

RDA (Resource Description and Access), the next generation cataloging code designed for the digital environment, is under development. This presentation provides background on its development and a general overview of the conceptual models, international principles, and structure of this new code.

Cataloging Principles and RDA: Resource Description and Access

The second in a series on RDA: Resource Description and Access, the next generation cataloging code designed for the digital environment. This presentation deals with the cataloging principles that have influenced the development of RDA; the challenges they present to the international sharing of bibliographic and authority data; and the challenges they present to the developers of RDA.