Core Forum Webinar Series: The New and Official RDA Toolkit: A Practical Approach
This four-part webinar series
covers the basics of the official Resource Description and Access (RDA) Toolkit that one should know
before using the standard and presents how to use the RDA Toolkit with
other cataloging documentation, including policy statements and Metadata
Guidance Documents (MGDs). Specific examples and detailed steps will be
demonstrated in the presentations to help users understand not only the
content structure of RDA in a comprehensive way but also ways to use
the Toolkit with the assistance of cataloging documentation.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this webinar series, attendees will:
- Get the background and basics of the Official RDA
- Learn how to record a title proper of a manifestation through RDA instructions and policy statements.
- Learn other relevant sections of the Toolkit through this title proper use case, such as manifestation statements, title of manifestation element, data provenance guidelines, guidelines on normalized transcription, and minimum description for a manifestation for the title proper recording.
- Learn the content structure of the Toolkit and how the policy statements fill in the gaps.
- Learn to navigate RDA Toolkit and search cataloging rules
- Learn the concept and relationship between superelements and subelements
- Learn to create a description of a person based on the Official RDA
- Learn to record relationship of the person to a description of a work/expression by using Official RDA
Who Should Attend: Catalogers, metadata librarians, and anyone interested in RDA.
Webinars
On-Demand Webinar Title: Official RDA: A Standard for Our Changing Times
Presented on: Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this webinar, attendees will:
- Get the background and basics of the Official RDA
Presenter:
Kathy Glennan
currently serves as the Director of Cataloging and Metadata Services at
the University of Maryland. She has over 35 years of experience
cataloging scores and audio recordings, at both the University of
Southern California and the University of Maryland.
Since 2005,
Kathy’s professional contributions and scholarship have focused on the
development of RDA: Resource Description and Access, with a special
emphasis on music cataloging instructions. From 2013-2017, she served as
the ALA Representative to the JSC (later renamed the RDA Steering
Committee, or RSC). In this role, she interpreted RDA instructions,
identified problems, and shepherded change proposals from ALA to improve
RDA. She also contributed to the implementation of a new governance
model for RDA, including the establishment of the North American RDA
Committee, for which she served as a founding member in 2018. In late
2017, the RDA Board appointed her the RSC Chair-Elect; she served as RSC
Chair from 2019-2022 and will serve as RSC Past Chair in 2023.
Kathy
has given numerous presentations on RDA, FRBR, LRM, and MARC Formats
issues, including four ALCTS webinars relating to RDA; she also spoke
during the 2017 ALCTS Exchange. She continues to speak about RDA to
various professional organizations throughout the country and
internationally. Many of her presentations are available via her web
page (https://glennan.net/).
Webinar Title: Title Proper in the Official RDA Toolkit
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2023
Time: 1 - 2 p.m. CT
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this webinar, attendees will:
- Learn how to record a title proper of a manifestation through RDA instructions and policy statements.
- Learn other relevant sections of the Toolkit through this title proper use case, such as manifestation statements, title of manifestation element, data provenance guidelines, guidelines on normalized transcription, and minimum description for a manifestation for the title proper recording.
Presenter:
Thomas Brenndorfer, currently Chair of the Canadian Committee of Cataloguing, was the NARDAC rep to the RSC from 2018 to 2021.
Thomas
is the author of RDA Essentials. He stays active in RDA teaching for
years and serves in the PCC RDA Training Task Group. He has given
presentations in various national/international RDA information and
teaching webinars.
Thomas has worked as a cataloger in Canada
since 1990. Currently, he is the cataloger librarian at the Guelph
Public Library in Ontario, Canada.
Webinar Title: RDA, Policy Statements, and MGDs: How the Documentation Works Together
Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Time: 1 - 2 p.m. CT
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this webinar, attendees will:
- Learn the content structure of the Toolkit and how the policy statements fill in the gaps
- Learn to navigate RDA Toolkit and search cataloging rules
- Learn the concept and relationship between superelements and subelements
Presenter:
She is the project leader of LC-PCC Policy Statements for the official RDA Toolkit. She also serves as one of the main reviewers/editors of Metadata Guidance Documentation for new RDA. She has given numerous update/presentations on RDA and LC-PCC Policy Statements since 2020.
She now serves as one of the two LC reps on NARDAC, and is the backup NARDAC representative to the RSC.
Webinar Title: Describing a Person Using Official RDA
Date: Thursday, March 30, 2023
Time: 1 - 2 p.m. CT
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this webinar, attendees will:
- Learn to create a description of a person based on the Official RDA
- Learn to record relationship of the person to a description of a work/expression by using Official RDA
Robert L. Maxwell is
a senior librarian at the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young
University, where he is a cataloger and curator for classical languages
and Special Collections, and is authorities librarian for genre/form
terms.
He is the winner of ALA’s ABC-CLIO 2014 Award for Best
Book in Library Literature and the ALCTS 2015 Outstanding Publication
Award for Maxwell’s Handbook for RDA (2013). He also won the 2002 ALA
Highsmith Library Literature Award for Maxwell’s Guide to Authority Work
(2002). He is also the author of FRBR: A Guide for the Perplexed
(2008).
He has taught cataloging at the University of Arizona
School of Information Resources and Library Science and at Brigham Young
University, and has chaired the Bibliographic Standards Committee of
the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and
Research Libraries (ACRL). He is one of the two ALA representatives to
NARDAC and is the North American regional representative to the RDA
Steering Committee (RSC) and has also been a member of ALA’s Committee
on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA), and ALA’s Subject
Analysis Committee, the ALA bodies charged with formulating ALA
positions on cataloging rules and policies, including RDA. In addition
to an M.L.S. from the University of Arizona, he holds a J.D. from
Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in classical languages and
literatures from the University of Toronto.
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Discount Applied |
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3-6 |
30% |
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7-12 |
35% |
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13-19 |
40% |
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20+ |
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