RDA Updates

With RDA Updates expected to be extensive in the build-up to implementation, we decided not to create a companion website for Practical Cataloguing (Facet, 2012), but I will cover major changes here on this blog.

I’ve mentioned before that one of the hardest decisions about our recent book was when there would be time in all the RDA changes to get Practical Cataloguing through the press before another set of major changes was released. I can confess now that I’ve been holding my breath since January, when the JSC announced that “major changes to the RDA content would appear twice a year (in 2012, in April and October releases of the Toolkit)” (JSC RDA Updating Process, 2012).

This week the April changes were announced.

RDA on April Fool’s Day

OK, so yesterday the lists told us about the outcomes of the lastest JSC meeting - hoorah! – and pranked us with “news” of the release of the online demo, courtesy of nokia – a timely reminder of the ubiquity of acronyms.

New Folksonomy Listserve

Lisa Zhao has established a listserve for people interested in folksonomy – FOLKSONOMY@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU

(Via AUTOCAT)