Vol. 7 No. 2 (2016): RDA, Resource Description and Access: The metamorphosis of cataloguing
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Implementing RDA at the Library of Congress

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  • Susan Morris,
  • Beacher Wiggins
Susan Morris
The Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Beacher Wiggins
The Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4403/jlis.it-11824

Published 2016-05-15

Keywords

  • Cataloguing,
  • Library of Congress,
  • National Agricultural Library,
  • National Library of Medicine,
  • RDA,
  • RDA Implementation,
  • RDA Training
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Morris, Susan, and Beacher Wiggins. 2016. “Implementing RDA at the Library of Congress”. JLIS.It 7 (2):199-228. https://doi.org/10.4403/jlis.it-11824.
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Abstract

The process of implementation of RDA by Library of Congress, National Agricultural Library, and National Library of Medicine is presented. Each phase of development, test, decision, preparation for implementation of RDA and training about RDA is fully and accurately described and discussed. Benefits from implementation of RDA for the Library of Congress are identified and highlighted: more flexibility in cataloguing decisions, easier international sharing of cataloguing data, clearer linking among related works; closer cooperation with other libraries in the North American community, production of an online learning platform in order to deliver RDA training on a large scale in real time to catalogers.
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