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Maori Subject Headings update
by Charlotte Stretton 13 Jun '10

13 Jun '10

Message for list: [Apologies for cross-posting] Tena tatou katoa E nga mana, e nga reo, e nga kaitiaki taonga katoa o Aotearoa, nei ra he maioha na matou o te komiti whiriwhiri o Nga Upoko Tukutuku. Following the release of 61 new terms in February, the National Library has created a file of all National Library catalogue records which use Maori Subject Headings. All of the headings that were affected due to the changes in February have been corrected in the file, so this is now up to date. The file will be available on the index page of the MSH thesaurus (http://mshupoko.natlib.govt.nz/mshupoko/index.htm) from today in either unicode UTF-8 or non-unicode MARC8 format, and can be used to update existing records. In other news, the Maori Subject Headings Project Team met in April for the first meeting of the year, where work continued on the list of requested terms. The focus areas for 2010 were decided to be: -Church -Social work -Nursing -Education -Sport -Media & Technology. Work was also done on some other headings, mainly animals. We hope to make these new headings publicly available shortly and will announce when that happens. The Maori Subject Headings Project Team have three meetings per year to work on the requested headings. The remaining meetings in 2010 are expected to be held in July and October. Na matou nei, Kim, Charlotte me te komiti o Nga Upoko Tukutuku Charlotte Stretton, RLIANZA Maori Subject Headings Project Team Leader Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa National Library of New Zealand P.O. Box 1467 Wellington, New Zealand charlotte.stretton(a)natlib.govt.nz DDI: (04) 470 4484 or phone: (04) 474 3000 ext 3484 [We apologise for the lack of macrons - these have been removed to avoid technical issues with some email software.]

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Fwd: new webinar on the RDA toolkit
by Chris Todd 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

Hi All, Please note that the June 17th webinar will suit our timezone, and also that these webinars will be recorded and posted on the RDA toolkit website. Regards Chris Todd >>> Troy Linker <tlinker(a)ALA.ORG> 4/06/2010 6:56 a.m. >>> Making the Most of the RDA Toolkit Open-Access Period Join us for this free learning opportunity! Join ALA Digital Reference Publisher Troy Linker as he gives an overview of Resource Description and Access (RDA) and describes how it is integrated into the RDA Toolkit. He will review highlights of the RDA Toolkit and point out how you can make the most of the open-access period through August 31, 2010. Pricing, subscription options, and future plans for the continual improvement of the RDA Toolkit will also be discussed. Learn how to: * create your own profile (and why it benefits you) * search and browse RDA instructions * create and share workflows and mappings-tools to customize RDA to support your organization's training, internal processes, and local policies * search RDA based on your existing knowledge of AACR2 rule numbers * access RDA content both by table of contents and by element set * search and browse AACR2 rules with links to help users navigate from AACR2 to RDA Reserve your place today at one of these upcoming virtual sessions! * Thursday, June 17, 9:00am CDT (GMT -5) [Good choice for European and African participants] https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/205709491 * Thursday, June 17, 8:00pm CDT (GMT -5) [Good choice for Australian and Asian participants] https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/458233635 * Friday, June 18, 3:00pm CDT (GMT -5) https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/774310874 (Offered at multiple times to allow people in different time zones to participate; the times listed are US Central time zone hours. A World Clock (http://www.timeanddate.com/) will help you work out the best time for you.) For those not able to join us for one of the live events, they will be recorded and posted to www.rdatoolkit.org/training. Resource Description and Access (RDA) and the RDA Toolkit are published by the Co-Publishers for RDA (the American Library Association, the Canadian Library Association, and Facet Publishing, the publishing arm of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals).

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Fwd: Cataloguers: OCLC software training close-off date
by Karen Rollitt 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

Good afternoon cataloguers A reminder that registration closes on June 9th for OCLC free face-to-face training in OCLC cataloguing software and workflow options You can find more detail about this opportunity and register for any/all the sessions if you go to the Cataloguers' wiki Training page- http://nznuc-cataloguing.pbworks.com/OCLC-training-in-NZ%2C-June-2010 Regards Ruth Ruth Miller Customer Support Consultant National Digital Library Phone: 04 474 3089 We have redesigned our website for librarians. Go to: http://www.natlib.govt.nz/librarians

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RDA Training Needs Survey Results
by Chris Todd 31 May '10

31 May '10

Apologies for cross-posting. The results of the RDA training needs survey are now available on the DescribeNZ wiki at http://nznuc-cataloguing.pbworks.com/f/RDA_training_Needs_Survey_Analysis.r… The original questionnaire is also available on the RDA page of the wiki http://www.describe.org.nz/ We are planning to discuss options for RDA training with ACOC (Australian Committee on Cataloguing) and we will keep the New Zealand library community informed of developments in this area. Regards Chris Todd Chris (Christine) Todd Team Leader, Cataloguing Team 1, Content Services, National Library of New Zealand. Telephone: (04) 474 3093 Fax: (04) 474 3161 Email: chris.todd(a)natlib.govt.nz

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Fwd: [rdaaust] RDA Toolkit webinars
by Chris Todd 25 May '10

25 May '10

National Library cataloguers will be watching out for more information on these and will let the lists know when the webinar times are made available Regards Chris Todd Chris (Christine) Todd Team Leader, Cataloguing Team 1, Content Services, National Library of New Zealand. Telephone: (04) 474 3093 Fax: (04) 474 3161 Email: chris.todd(a)natlib.govt.nz >>> Deirdre Kiorgaard <Dkiorgaa(a)nla.gov.au> 24/05/2010 11:00 a.m. >>> Once the RDA Toolkit is made available for the open access period, ALA Publishing will announce several "Making the most of the open access period" themed webinars. Each webinar will be hosted live two or three times, and at least one of these will be offered during normal business hours in Australia. All webinars will be recorded and archived on the RDA Toolkit website for anyone unable to attend a live event. Cheers, Deirdre Deirdre Kiorgaard ACOC representative to the JSC, and Director, Serials Collection Management and Standards National Library of Australia Parkes, ACT 2600 Ph 02 62621327

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RDA (Resource Description & Access) Toolkit Open Access Sign up
by Chris Todd 21 May '10

21 May '10

Apologies for Cross-Posting RDA is coming closer, with what looks like a mid-June start. Information on signing up for the open access trial period is available below. For more information about the toolkit itself please check the webinar that was recorded in February this year http://www.rdatoolkit.org/training/guidedtour Presentations from last year's LIANZA/CatSig seminars on RDA are being added to the DEscribeNZ wiki http://nznuc-cataloguing.pbworks.com/ We are still looking at the results of the RDA Training Needs Survey and will be sending out some summary information shortly. Regards Chris Todd Chris (Christine) Todd Team Leader, Cataloguing Team 1, Content Services, National Library of New Zealand. Telephone: (04) 474 3093 Fax: (04) 474 3161 Email: chris.todd(a)natlib.govt.nz >>> Troy Linker <tlinker(a)ALA.ORG> 21/05/2010 11:25 a.m. >>> Sign up now and you'll be ready for the start in mid-June of free open access to the RDA Toolkit! The Co-Publishers invite you to try the RDA Toolkit at no cost from the launch in June through August 31, 2010. Sign up now and we'll send you an email with your login information as soon as open access becomes available in mid-June. We are opening the sign-up process early to allow institutions time to coordinate their requests for institutional access. Please sign up the same way you plan to subscribe. * Institutional access if there will ever be more than one user at your site (institutional access typically uses IP authentication or a referring URL). * Solo-user access if you will only have one user at your site (login/password authentication only). Most users should sign up for institutional access. Why? * Your institution can have an unlimited number of concurrent users during the open-access period * You and your colleagues can test the sharing of workflows and mappings within your institution * You and your colleagues can take advantage of IP authentication or a referring URL to avoid institutional login (users will just log in to access their personal profile) * You and your colleagues can participate more smoothly in your institution's decisions regarding RDA implementation Sign up now and look forward to getting your login information in mid-June. RDA Toolkit www.rdatoolkit.org The resource to help you navigate from AACR2 to RDA-the new, unified standard for resource description and access, designed for the digital world and an expanding universe of metadata users. As you use the RDA Toolkit, you'll notice ongoing improvements and additions. ________________________________________ Resource Description and Access (RDA) and the RDA Toolkit are published by the Co-Publishers for RDA (the American Library Association, the Canadian Library Association, and Facet Publishing, the publishing arm of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals). Kind regards, Troy Linker Publisher, ALA Digital Reference American Library Association (312) 280-5101 www.rdatoolkit.org www.guidetoreference.org

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CU staff cuts (2)
by Peter Hosking 03 May '10

03 May '10

Dear all, I should have said that 35 staff are proposed to be disestablished and 18 new positions are proposed to be created. The final outcome will be announced in early July. Peter Hosking This email may be confidential and subject to legal privilege, it may not reflect the views of the University of Canterbury, and it is not guaranteed to be virus free. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and erase all copies of the message and any attachments. Please refer to http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/emaildisclaimer for more information.

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CU staff cuts
by Peter Hosking 02 May '10

02 May '10

Dear all, You may have heard of the change proposal that was presented to staff at CU last week. 35 positions are disestablished and 18 new ones will be created. The following is an outline of how it impacts on Collection Services at Canterbury. Our present structure consists of three teams. Two for monographs and one for serials. We have 11 staff at assistant librarian level or above. All have been disestablished with the exception of the Asian Languages Collection Librarian. The proposed new structure will consist of an acquisitions team and a "resources discovery" (i.e. cataloguing) team. There will be 9 new positions in the new structure, however, one of these positions has Interloans duties because the Interloans team has also been disestablished in the change proposal. Interloans has previously been part of Lending Services but will now be carried out by the acquisitions team. The new Resource Discovery team will consist of a team leader, 4 assistant librarians and the Asian Languages Collection Librarian, plus some library assistants (the number is not specified in the proposal). The institutional Repository Coordinator will also report to the team leader. Previously the IR coordinator was based in Library IT. The team will catalogue all formats. At present we have seven librarians who catalogue, plus two team leaders who catalogue when time permits. In the new structure there will be five librarians cataloguing, plus one team leader. This is a significant reduction in cataloguing staff numbers for us. CU has had a serials cataloguer since 1976. This position is now disestablished and serials cataloguing will be shared among the Resource Discovery team. Among our cataloguers we also have specialists in music, law, European languages, and electronic resources. None of these specialities are mentioned in the change proposal. The Collection Services Manager position has been disestablished and will be replaced by the new position of Support Services Library Manager. The new manager will be expected to deputize for the Library Manager in his/her absence as well as manage Support Services. We would like to acknowledge the messages of support that we have received from our colleagues in other libraries and greatly appreciate this. Peter Hosking Serials Cataloguing Librarian Collection Services University of Canterbury Library This email may be confidential and subject to legal privilege, it may not reflect the views of the University of Canterbury, and it is not guaranteed to be virus free. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and erase all copies of the message and any attachments. Please refer to http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/emaildisclaimer for more information.

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RDA summary & update
by Chris Todd 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Please excuse any cross-posting RDA update - April 30 2010 This is the first in a series of updates on RDA from the National Library of New Zealand. These updates will be posted on the CatSig and Nzlibs listservs and they will also be available on the Describe NZ wiki http://www.describe.org.nz Resource Description and Access (RDA), the planned successor to AACR2, is due for release in June 2010. There will be a free trial period for the RDA toolkit until August 31st 2010. There is no information available on prices for Australasian subscribers at this stage. Information on the trial period, subscription options for North American subscribers, including groups, consortia and print editions, are available at http://www.rdatoolkit.org/home The U.S. national libraries are conducting an evaluation of RDA with the participation of cataloguers from a number of other North American libraries. The results of this evaluation will not be available before March 2011. General information on the test process is available at http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/ For more specific details of policy decisions and training for the RDA test see http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/RDAtest/rdatest.html OCLC will be implementing the MARC changes related to RDA so that the testing can be carried out using OCLC Connexion. Information on RDA and OCLC is available at http://www.oclc.org/rda/default.htm A summary of the MARC changes associated with RDA can be seen at http://www.loc.gov/marc/RDAinMARC29.html The National Library of Australia and the Australian Committee on Cataloguing are participants in the RDA development. Information on RDA with an Australian perspective is available at http://www.nla.gov.au/lis/stndrds/grps/acoc/rda.html We do not anticipate implementing RDA at the National Library of New Zealand until the completion of the American evaluation because of the impact of that evaluation on our main suppliers of bibliographic records. However, as planning progresses, we will keep New Zealand libraries informed of all developments. One of our first tasks, after the release of RDA, will be to identify rules with options and alternatives and make policy decisions for National Library cataloguers to follow. These decisions will be made available to all New Zealand libraries. Thank you to those librarians who took part in the RDA Training Needs Survey. We are currently looking at the data from that survey and will make the results available as a summary in May. To view RDA drafts and other associated documentation check the RDA website at http://www.rda-jsc.org/index.html Regards Chris Todd Chris (Christine) Todd Team Leader, Cataloguing Team 1, Content Services, National Library of New Zealand. Telephone: (04) 474 3093 Fax: (04) 474 3161 Email: chris.todd(a)natlib.govt.nz

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More pricing options for RDA
by Chris Todd 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

This email was posted to the RDA list this morning and contains further purchase and subscription options for North American subscribers. The increase in flexibility is very pleasing. We expect these options will also be available to Australasian subscribers, although prices for this region have not yet been announced. Regards Chris Todd >>> Troy Linker <tlinker(a)ALA.ORG> 29/04/2010 10:25 a.m. >>> Thank you for your input. The Co-Publishers for RDA have received considerable feedback about what you need to make implementation of RDA as smooth, rapid, and efficient as possible, whatever your type or size of institution and whatever country you're in. Based on what you've told us, we're introducing some additional options to the previously announced pricing and product. * A solo-user license (one profile, one user) for the RDA Toolkit at $195 (USD). This solo-user license is in addition to, and differs from, the previously announced site licenses. The solo-user license is for single-user environments where access to the RDA Toolkit is not shared with other individuals in the same institution. By contrast, the previously announced site license base price of $325 (USD) is designed for multi-user environments where one concurrent user (with the option to add additional concurrent users) is shared with an unlimited number of individuals within the same institution. For more details on pricing, please visit the website www.rdatoolkit.org/pricing. * A double-user offer for those who subscribe at any site license level to the RDA Toolkit before August 31, 2011. During the evaluation and initial implementation of RDA, when users are likely to need more frequent concurrent access, subscribers will receive double the purchased number of concurrent users of the RDA Toolkit at no additional charge for their first subscription period. (For example, buy a 2-user site license but get a 4-user license for no additional cost.) * Full-text loose-leaf print versions of both Resource Description and Access (RDA) and RDA: Element Set View. While most users agree the preferred way to interact with RDA is online via the RDA Toolkit, the Co-Publishers will offer the full text of RDA in print (including an index) as well as online, to help ensure that RDA reaches the widest possible audience. In addition to these print items in English, the Co-Publishers will work with publishing partners to distribute translations of them to supplement translations offered in the RDA Toolkit online. Pricing and availability to be announced closer to the June RDA Toolkit launch date. Have you signed up yet to receive updates? If not, please sign up at www.rdatoolkit.org/rdalist or send your email address to rdatoolkit(a)ala.org, and we'll send you updates as information becomes available. Updates will include the complimentary open-access period, free trials, pricing, special introductory offers, print versions, product updates, and more-for the U.S.A. and other countries. You can also bookmark our informational website at www.rdatoolkit.org. For general information about the open-access period (June through August 31, 2010), please visit www.rdatoolkit.org/openaccess. ________________________________________ Resource Description and Access (RDA) and the RDA Toolkit are published by the Co-Publishers for RDA (the American Library Association, the Canadian Library Association, and Facet Publishing, the publishing arm of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals). Kind regards, Troy Linker Publisher, ALA Digital Reference American Library Association (312) 280-5101

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