What's Out There in Library Land
Rick J. Block has been speaking on RDA for some time now. I recently came across his website via William Denton's FRBR Blog. The page is entitled, RDA: Victors or Victims. This is actually a presentation that Rick did for the New York Technical Services group. Last year, he presented, RDA: Boondoggle or Boon? at …
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Many of these resources have already been posted on other blogs. However, these relatively new updates on scope and mappings are conveniently located on the Joint Steering for Development of RDA at: http://www.rda-jsc.org/rda.html#scope. All of the updates are PDF documents with the general date of July 2009 [i.e. July 1, 2009]. The PDF documents are: …
The blog, Cataloging Futures, recently posted some good links to get general information on RDA. Go to: http://www.catalogingfutures.com/catalogingfutures/2009/06/rda-frbr-frad-helpful-links.html The good news is that in addition to RDA, there are also links for FRBR and FRAD (for all those authority fans out there).
At the recent Code4Lib 2009 Conference in Providence, there was a talk on FRBR by Jodi Schneider and William Denton. In my first post, I thought of creating a separate page with links to various resources on FRBR and RDA. After some thought and seeing the types of resources out there on the web, I …
The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian just posted this link on his blog about staffing, library culture, and digital projects. The link is to Michael Edson's blog, Using Data. The brief presentation called the Web Tech Guy and Angry Staff person really strikes at the heart of many difficulties that we face within the library culture. …
