Resource Description and Access (RDA): Cataloguing in the 21st century-FREE powerpoint presentation by Ann Chapman

This was a Guest lecture at the University College London on 2nd March 2009, by Ann Chapman (a.d.chapman@ukoln.ac.uk) who is a Research Officer (Community and Outreach Team), Ukoln, University of Bath.

This presentation was given as part of the cataloguing module for library and information science students at London Metropolitan University.

It sets out the background of, and the international collaborative development process for, RDA. It also outlines how to use the RDA approach to cataloguing and how RDA might impact on catalogues of the future.

"RDA: Cataloguing in the 21st century"

Ann Chapman, March 2009
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There is also quite a good article about RDA entitled "RDA: a cataloguing code for the 21st century" also by Ann Chapman available at http://www.cilip.org.uk/publications/updatemagazine/archive/archive2008/september/rdachapman.htm.

There have been several other presentations on RDA. Some of these are:

Presentations

Presentations given at the IFLA Satellite Conference on RDA in August 2008 (all in PDF format):

• Resource Description and Access Overview: History, Principles, Conceptual Models by Barbara Tillett. See also the Speaker notes
• Resource Description and Access: Structure, Content and the Development process by Deirdre Kiorgaard. See also the Speaker notes
• RDA vocabularies and concepts by Gordon Dunsire
• The International Community’s Reaction to RDA by Anders Cato
• Between Yesterday and Tomorrow – On Track for International Standards by Renate Gömpel (presented by Christel Hengel-Dittrich)
• Beyond RDA’s First Release by Pam Gatenby
• RDA demonstration