Tēnā  koutou/Greetings to you all,

The National Library of New Zealand has reached a significant milestone in its implementation of the new RDA Toolkit by loading a test set of Policy Statements to the RDA Toolkit. Following the September 2022 release, these are now visible at https://access.rdatoolkit.org/.

Where are the Policy Statements?

You can explore our Policy Statements in the Toolkit via the link in the Policies tab or by selecting ‘NLNZ PS’ from the menu at the top right of any of the element pages. If the NLNZ Policy Statements don’t appear in the list, you may have to update the settings in your Views.

What Policy Statements are included?

As this is a test, we have only loaded a small set of the total Policy Statements that we have completed.

We have loaded Policy Statements for the Manifestation entity only, including 350 Manifestation elements. This is a total of 2232 individual Policy Statements.

Our aim is to have Policy Statements at every element in the RDA Toolkit plus at all options on Entity and Guidance pages. If you don’t see any Policy Statements on a page, it simply means we didn’t include them for this test load.

What about supporting documentation?

Throughout the NLNZ Policy Statements you’ll see references to the NLNZ Guidance. This is a document to support cataloguers to use the NLNZ Policy Statements in conjunction with the RDA Toolkit, similar to the Metadata Guidance Documentation produced by the Library of Congress and Program for Co-operative Cataloguing (LC-PCC). Right now the link is pointing to a temporary document in the RDA Toolkit. The NLNZ guidance will be made available later, together with other supporting documentation and the NLNZ Application Profile.

This is really exciting, where can I find out more information?

There will be a presentation about the work that the NLNZ has been doing to prepare for switching to the new RDA Toolkit at the upcoming LIANZA CatSIG professional development webinar series on Thursday October 27. See the LIANZA events calendar for more details and to register.

If you have any specific questions you’d like answered, or something you’d particularly like to see in this presentation please email us before Friday 21 October. You can email the NLNZ cataloguing teams at nznb@dia.govt.nz or me directly at anoushka.mcguire@dia.govt.nz

Anoushka

Anoushka McGuire | Team Leader, Cataloguing Team 1,

National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa

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