Executive Summary of the RDA Meetings April 13-23, 2008

I am carefully watching RDA to see how this will manifest itself and change cataloging forever.

At one of the RDA updates at ALA they said that they will work to map RDA rules to ISBD punctuation rules first; second they will work to map RDA to US MARC; then they will work out the ILS/OPAC part. This was my understanding which made sense.

Here is a reputable link: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/0804exec.html

So it looks like 2009 will be the year that it comes out -- ready or not.

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