The Cilip Events team have done an amazing job putting together an Executive Briefing on RDA. As you may imagine, it’s not easy to find speakers this early on in the process of adoption.
Alan Danskin and Ann Chapman will be sharing their expert knowledge of the new code and its implementation and Alan will be demonstrating how RDA will work.
I’m particularly grateful that Heather Jardine (CIG’s blog editor) is willing to share her past experience managing migration projects and am really looking forward to Shawne Miksa’s video on the new code. (As the author of forthcoming Introduction to Resource Description and Access, Shawne has been tracking the changes closely). There will also be a view from the supply side, provided by Nielsen Book.
I’ll be giving a brief paper on the training and education implications, but what I am really looking forward to most is the roundtable discussion, in which we get to hear not only what the speakers but also the delegates think about RDA. The buzz around this change has quite a different feel to the last big one (MARC21) and I’m really keen to hear the community’s thoughts on what’s happening.
The programme is available on the event’s website, along with booking information, details of the much-awaited RDA toolkit, and a 25% discount for attendees on Facet’s related publications (including Practical Cataloguing).
