6/14/12
RDA Refresher Training at LC (October 2011 with recent updates)
The Library of Congress had refresher sessions for those LC participants in the 2010 U.S. RDA Test who will be returning to cataloging with RDA in November 2011 (with some recently updated files). These training materials are an overview of RDA with reminders for LC cataloging staff who already had RDA training in 2010; also covered are LC’s changes in core elements and in policy decisions informed by the US RDA Test. (For more complete training materials, see the files for the Georgia Public Library Cataloging Summit.)
A separate session was presented on Using the RDA Toolkit.
A link to the latest version is here.
RDA Modules (includes speaker notes)
- Module A: Introductory slides; Identifying manifestations [PPT, 519 KB]
- Module B: Identifying works [PPT, 610 KB]
- Module C: Identifying expressions [PPT, 695 KB]
- Module D: Describing content of works and expressions [PPT, 422 KB]
- Module E: Identifying persons, families, and corporate bodies [PPT, 953 KB]
- Module F: Relationships: in bibliographic and authority records [PPT, 959 KB]
RDA supplementary documents (R-prefix for “refresher/revised” version)
- R-1: LC RDA core elements (Link to current version)
- R-2: Summary: changes (or not) in LC’s US RDA Test policies for November 2011+ [DOC, 72 KB]
- R-3: Excerpts now incorporated into current LCPSs
- R-4: Importing records for textual monographs -- for LC RDA catalogers and technicians [DOC, 97 KB]
- R-5: MARC 21 encoding to accommodate RDA elements: LC practice [DOC, 131 KB]
- R-6: Name authority record printouts [PDF, 87 KB]
- R-7: Some possible RDA implementation scenarios [PDF, 53 KB]
- R-8: Shelflisting Monographs Cataloged with RDA [DOC, 78 KB]
Exercises and answers
- Refresher training: exercise information [DOC, 43 KB]
- Refresher training: exercise worksheet [DOC, 61 KB]
- Refresher training: exercise answers [PPT, 726 KB]
- Refresher training: exercise answers [DOC, 49 KB]
- Guided practice: exercise information [DOC, 50 KB]
- Guided practice: exercise worksheet [DOC, 142 KB]
- Guided practice: exercise answers [PPT, 616 KB]
- Guided practice: exercise answers [DOC, 189 KB]