RDA Implementation

The National Library will start using RDA as the standard for descriptive cataloguing of textual monographs (both print and digital) from early April 2013. We will continue to use existing AACR2 records for older material and for non-New Zealand material, but all new records will follow RDA.

Other formats will be phased in over the next few months as we develop our cataloguing policies and workflows. We expect to be using RDA for all materials, with the possible exception of rare books, by December 2013.

The Library’s RDA cataloguing policy document is available on the DescribeNZ wiki here.

RDA Training

In February, the National Library cataloguing team leaders (Chris Todd, Janess Stewart and Andra Patterson) presented a pilot National Library of New Zealand version of the National Library of Australia’s RDA Train the Trainer course to a group of cataloguers in Dunedin. We plan to offer further courses after May 2013, once our RDA implementation is underway.

Deborah Fritz of The MARC of Quality has presented the first of two webinars on Rudimentary RDA. The second webinar will be held in early April and is already fully subscribed. Deborah will be in New Zealand from around late August and we expect that other courses will be available then. 

The National Library RDA training materials are also available on the DescribeNZ wiki here

Please contact any of us if you have questions about RDA:

Chris Todd  christine.todd@dia.govt.nz

Janess Stewart janess.stewart@dia.govt.nz

Andra Patterson  andra.patterson@dia.govt.nz

Chris (Christine) Todd

Team Leader, Cataloguing Team 1

National Library of New Zealand

The Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua

Direct Dial: +64 4 474 3093

email: christine.todd@dia.govt.nz