RDA IN THE UK

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RDA IN THE UK

• Summary of Survey Results

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Overview

• CILIP/BL CIG
• Survey Monkey
• 78 responses
• Awareness of RDA
• Implementation Context
• Training needs
• Next Steps

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Awareness of RDA
RDA ICP FRBR FRAD
What is it? 3 25 6 10
Heard of it 39 32 36 43
Understand it 15 5 18 11
Explain it 9 2 5 1
I know what RDA is, why it's been developed
and where to find more information about it I
have studied FRBR but it looks very complicated
as a basis for cataloguing rules The
terminology I find confusing, e.g. manifestations
and expressions - none of the glossaries seem to
make clear exactly what these mean at least not
enough for me to explain it clearly to others.
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60 of those answering yes attended CILIP
Executive Briefings 20 of those answering yes
viewed ALA Webinars
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Training needs to be straightforward for
non-professional cataloguers How much the
differences matter in day to day work. what
changes do we need to make to LMS to gain the
benefits As I don't understand what most of
these options are it's difficult to rank them
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• Advantages for cataloguing e-resources,
  digitisation projects
• Depends on decisions of record creators (e.g.
  BL, BDS) and LMS suppliers
• Our initial reaction is not good - it would be
  more work therefore more cost, which could not be
  coming at a worse time
• I was under the impression that there was no
  choice in this. I thought it was replacing
  AACR2.
• Not even thought about it.
• We may not be able to justify the cost of the
  Toolkit!

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Implementation Context
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Academic Library 58 Public Library
14 Government Library 10 National Library
8.5 Health Medical 7
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Art-specific materials e.g. exhibition
catalogues, artists' books Grey literature
produced in-house DVD feature films TV
programmes. GMD change will have a big
impact Tactile and audio formats
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all catalogued in-house, but mostly upgrading
rather than original cataloguing Level of
cataloguing depends on type of material Moving
to shelf ready service for book supply We do
edit all records we download
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We contribute name authorities to NACO All name,
subject and series headings are under authority
control. We don't download authority
records Subjects only - in house scheme
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• Others
• Liberty
• Open Galaxy
• Spydus (Civica)

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What aspect of current rules causes most
difficulty?

• Applying them to artefacts and non book materials
• Easily adapting for local practice - e.g. more
  detailed local material descriptions
• Expressing information about media/format
• Multi-part works - one record or several?

• None
• AACR2's relationship with MARC21 and the
  underlying database
• Punctuation
• Applicability to modern resources such as ebooks,
  DVDs, Web resources etc.
• Serials peculiarities

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Training Needs
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What topics should training cover for each of
these categories of staff?

• It is important that the reasons for the adoption
  of RDA are justified to decision makers and to
  all stakeholders
• Need a very simple and basic training package
  for most staff, and a more detailed offering for
  cataloguer
• FRBR is not really apparent in the records or
  the catalogue display without different software
  and treatment of legacy records
• cataloguers and system administrators need
  practical hands on "this is how you do" type
  training

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What is your preferred method for delivery of RDA
training
Develop in-house using own resources 47
Deliver in-house using own trainers 41
Deliver in-house using external trainers 28
Deliver off-site 35
Deliver on-line 35
training likely to be organised by wider
organisation. Hopefully all in-house It depends
on current financial constraints I currently
deliver MARC21 training to library assistant
cataloguers so I would be expected by senior
managers to deliver RDA training Welsh language
requirement
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How much time would your institution be prepared
to commit to training the following groups of
staff?
Man. Cat. Sys. Ref.
Half day 90 40 60 60
1 day 22 57 65 13
2 days 0 94 19 0
More 8 92 17 0
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Comments

• We expect to do training in house.
• I would have thought it would be more appropriate
  to charge mainly for time, with an element for
  the number of attendees
• A lot less than 100!
• Our training budget is very limited. We could not
  afford external training for all 10 cataloguers.
  Perhaps the 2 professionals could attend external
  training and cascade this to library assistants.

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Comments

• If the changes were profound, which they are not
  likely to be in the short term, and the benefits
  demonstrable, then I think it might be acceptable
  to pay lots on training.
• We would be obliged to issue a call for tender
• funding would be for senior cataloguers only
  (2-3) and this would be cascaded

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Next steps

• Post results on CIG Website
• Encourage discussion
• Invite new members to joint Task Finish Group
• Plan modules required
• Evaluate delivery options
• Prepare materials

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