Trial period demonstration Jenny Stephens, National Library of Australia July 2010, revised February 2011 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Overview Access to the Toolkit Familiarity with basic features How to use the free trial period NOT: Structure of RDA (See for overview presentation on this topic) How to catalogue using RDA
Access to the Toolkit esources.html
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RDA
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TOOLS
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RESOURCES
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SEARCHING
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Using the pre-implementation period Why use the Toolkit now? – Familiarisation – Feedback and suggestions – Technical problems
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Familiarisation tips What does RDA say about this field? – Try using the MARC to RDA mapping This AACR2 instruction is really vague. I wonder if RDA expresses it better? – Do a search on the AACR2 rule in RDA Watch the Wiki page for more tips
Places to go for more information RDA Toolkit Website ACOC RDA Website
Acknowledgements Some of the information in this presentation is from Toolkit publishers webinar, entitled: “RDA Toolkit: What’s new since August” ( Presented by Troy Linker in November 2010.