In case you have not heard, Resource Description & Access (a.k.a. RDA) is the cataloging code slated to replace the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR) sometime in the near future. I say sometime because release dates for RDA have been moving around for years.
In the cataloging community, views on RDA are mixed. For some, RDA is the next big change in cataloging and for others it is a tool where adoption of it is iffy at best. Lately, the pricing model has received a large number of comments on various discussion lists. For more information, see RDA frequently asked questions may be found on the RDA site.
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This well attended session featured Dan Hazen from Harvard University discussing the nuts and bolts of Harvard's open access policy. Unlike K-State's K-Rex, Harvard's institutional repository began first with faculty papers and is only now starting to address ETDRs. A
And now for some fascinating background that I was unaware of until the discussion. Harvard Libraries are comprised of 10 faculty libraries that function as separately funded entities not beholden to the larger Harvard Universities umbrella.
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Lisa Schmidt, the electronic records archivist at Michigan State University on “Digital Curation Planning at Michigan State University.” MSU has 33,000 cubic feet of MSU records in their archives and actively works with various campus departments to gain their content. The archives at MSU are a unit separate from the libraries. Funded by a grant, the archives sought to create a plan for digital curation of content.
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Jennifer Bowen, University of Rochester
Jennifer presented of the eXtensible catalog's metadata services toolkit which is now available for release in modules.
The project is completely open source and a non-profit eXtensible Cataloging Organization is being created to support the products. The project has a new interface that is FRBR-ized, faceted browse, totally customizable and based on a Drupal framework.
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The bulk of this meeting focused on an update from the Library of
Congress and a report of the results from the R2 consulting report.
The consultants report examined the economics of producing MARC records in North America (U.S.A., Canada). Respondents to the survey (libraries, vendors) were self selected and not random. The report asks, who creates original MARC records?
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Although K-State is not an enhance institution, we have considered becoming one for select formats and the information presented is always valuable. OCLC announced the Expert Community Experiment has become a permanent and is no longer an experiment. All of the functionality available during the experiment has been made permanent. Between February 15-August 2009, the Experiment Community Experiment yielded 108,000 record fixes. Enhance level authorizations will still have additional functionality. Under consideration is whether or not enhance members will be able to edit PCC records and make type code changes.
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