Testing Resource Description and Access (RDA)
**Reposted from the Library of Congress**
Report and Recommendations
The Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, and the National Library of Medicine are pleased to issue a statement from the Executives of the three libraries regarding the Report and Recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee on the implementation of RDA—Resource Description & Access. This statement and the Executive Summary of the Committee’s Report and Recommendations are being issued to allow interested parties sufficient time to review prior to the upcoming Annual Conference of the American Library Association in New Orleans, June 23 -28.
- Response of the Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, and the National Library of Medicine to the RDA Test Coordinating Committee (June 13, 2011) [PDF, 47KB]
- Report and Recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee: Executive Summary (June 13, 2011) [PDF, 174KB]
National Libraries RDA Test
In response to concerns about RDA raised by the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, the three U.S. national libraries–the Library of Congress (LC), the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and the National Agricultural Library (NAL)–made a commitment to the further development and completion of RDA. The three libraries agreed to make a joint decision on whether or not to implement RDA, based on the results of a test of both RDA and the Web product. The goal of the test was to assure the operational, technical, and economic feasibility of RDA. Testers included the three national libraries and the broader U.S. library community.
- About the U.S. National Libraries Test Plan for RDA
- Tentative Timeline for U.S. National Libraries RDA Test
- U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee Members
- U.S. National Libraries RDA Test Partners
- Selected U.S. RDA Test Partners: Systems, Current Rules, Formats To Be Tested[MS Excel, 25 KB] - updated 01/06/11 - Evaluative Factors for US RDA Test: For Continuous Update [MS Excel, 67 KB] -updated 03/31/11
- Proposed Methodology for Testing
- RDA Train-the-Trainer Webcasts
- Library of Congress Documentation for the RDA Test
Meeting Summaries from the 2009 ALA Annual Conference
- U.S. RDA Partners Meeting [MS Word, 40 KB]
- U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Commitee Meeting with ILS Vendors [MS Word, 35 KB]
