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This is a friendly reminder to the PCC membership of the October 21 deadline (this Friday) for your comments on the three PCC RDA Task Group reports, which are posted on the PCC web site.

 

·        The Task Group on AACR2 & RDA Acceptable Heading Categories -- http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/RDA-Acceptable-TG.html

·        The Task Group on Hybrid Bibliographic Records -- http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/RDA-Hybrid-bib-TG.html

·        The Task Group on RDA Decisions Needed – the Introduction (MS Word) and Spreadsheet (MS Excel) linked from http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/RDA-PCC.html

 

Please share your thoughts over PCCLIST, or write to [log in to unmask].  Your input is much appreciated.

 

Linda Barnhart

Head, Metadata Services Department

UC San Diego

858-534-6759

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Members of the PCC community,

 

The last of the three reports of the RDA-related task groups formed last June, from the PCC RDA Decisions Needed Task Group, has now been posted and linked from http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/RDA-Decision-TG.html  .  Thanks to the group, led by Beth Picknally Camden, for their thorough and thoughtful report.

 

The report attempts to enumerate all the decisions that will need to be made and documented as part of having the PCC ready for RDA implementation.   The Task Group has also assigned priorities to each item and designated responsible parties.   The intent is to have all of the High, Medium, and Low priority items acted on by the summer of 2012, which would provide six months for the documentation and training that would be needed prior to a possible January 2013 implementation.  Ideally, most of the High priority items should be resolved by December 2011, so that those PCC BIBCO and CONSER member institutions that wish to start cataloging using RDA will have sufficient policies and procedures, documentation, and training materials in place to switch to the new code.

 

To address the first item in the Task Group’s recommendations (G-1), the PCC Policy Committee has agreed to form a subgroup to review the LC PSD RDA Policy Statements, which is critical documentation that will be completed by November.  This group will be essential in helping PoCo determine the extent to which PCC will follow LC policy or will need to draft PCC Policy Statements.  Such exceptions, hopefully rare, would be added to the LCPSs rather than creating a separate set of cataloging documentation.

 

The PCC Policy Committee accepts the task group’s report and we anticipate it will be a living document with status updates frequently added.   We now welcome community comment (either over PCCLIST or via email to [log in to unmask] ) by October 21. 

 

More importantly, the spreadsheet outlines all the work PCC needs to accomplish to successfully implement RDA.  It also identifies groups to be responsible for making sure the necessary decisions get made and documented.  If you would like to be considered for membership on the various subgroups that will be formed in the coming months, please volunteer by writing of your interest and what your area of expertise is, to [log in to unmask] .  Please cite the specific Issue ID number(s) from the spreadsheet.   It is not necessary to have been an RDA test site library or an active contributor of RDA records to participate.

 

Thanks,

   John

 

John Riemer

Head, UCLA Library Cataloging & Metadata Center

Kinross South

11020 Kinross Avenue

Box 957230

(campus mail code 723011)

Los Angeles, CA  90095-7230

+1 310.825.2901 voice

+1 310.794.9357 fax

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Members of the PCC community,

 

The second of the three reports of the RDA-related task groups formed last June, from the PCC Task Group on Hybrid Bibliographic Records, has now been posted and linked from http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/RDA-Hybrid-bib-TG.html .

 

The report offers general guidelines for working with RDA and AACR2 records during the transition period from AACR2 to RDA.  The focus of the task group when discussing editing of records was to find ways to improve user access.  Editing in a record will generally be done following the rules currently governing the description and will not change the record’s bibliographic identity/integrity.  The report addresses editing done by individual catalogers and recommends that batch/machine editing of existing records not occur prior to RDA implementation. 

 

A set of six guides is provided, for PCC work at the network level on RDA and AACR2 records for monographic, serial, and integrating resources.  Use of the guides will give us experience on which to base guidelines for the post-implementation period.  

 

The PCC Policy Committee accepts the task group’s report, and we now want to get community comment in order to learn of any needed adjustments to the guides.   Please share your thoughts over PCCLIST (or write to [log in to unmask] ) by October 21.  An implementation date will be announced in the fall.

 

Thanks,

  John

 

John Riemer

Head, UCLA Library Cataloging & Metadata Center

Kinross South

11020 Kinross Avenue

Box 957230

(campus mail code 723011)

Los Angeles, CA  90095-7230

+1 310.825.2901 voice

+1 310.794.9357 fax

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From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Riemer, John
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 2:25 PM
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Subject: [PCCLIST] Report of the PCC Task Group on AACR2 & RDA Acceptable Heading Categories

 

Members of the PCC community,

 

The reports of the three RDA-related task groups formed last June are coming in this month.   The first of these, from the Task Group on AACR2 & RDA Acceptable Heading Categories, has now been posted and linked from http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/RDA-Acceptable-TG.html .

 

There is good news: Less than 5% of the 7.6 million name authority records need to undergo a heading change as part of RDA implementation.  Of the 397 thousand NARs needing a change to the 1XX field in order to be used in RDA, 172 thousand can be changed by automated means.  Over 95% of the existing authority record 1XX fields can be used in RDA without modification.

 

The report takes a holistic approach, and many of its recommended actions are intertwined.  For the smoothest migration to RDA, the report recommends that we have a “Day 1” for authorities (the point after which all new additions to the authority file will reflect RDA). 

 

The PCC Policy Committee endorses the task group’s final report in principle, and we now welcome your comments, which may be used to further clarify the process of implementation.   Please share your thoughts over PCCLIST (or write to [log in to unmask] ) by October 21.

 

Thanks,

  John

 

John Riemer

Head, UCLA Library Cataloging & Metadata Center

Kinross South

11020 Kinross Avenue

Box 957230

(campus mail code 723011)

Los Angeles, CA  90095-7230

+1 310.825.2901 voice

+1 310.794.9357 fax

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