1. June 29, 2013 WHY WAIT? CONVERTING TO RICHARD GUAJARDO University of Houston Libraries

2. UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LIBRARIES

3. RDA CONVERSION PLANNING Revise Material Types Updated Catalog Search RDA Content Types RDA Implementation Preparation RDA Conversion Conversion Timeline Post-RDA Conversion Practice

4. REVISED MATERIAL TYPES

5. UPDATED ADVANCED SEARCH

6. RDA CONTENT TYPE MAPPING

8. RDA IMPLEMENTATION – PREPARATION Database Clean Up - OCLC Number Match Project Configure Load Tables for New RDA Bib. and Authority Fields Install AACP for RDA Authority Headings Change Implement BCODE2 (material type) Changes for RDA GMD Replacement

9. RDA CONVERSION MARCIVE RDA Conversion Process: Send files to MARCIVE MARCIVE test RDA conversion – 1 week MARCIVE send test file to us for approval Final conversion (7-10 days) Load converted record back to III Internal Conversion Process: Global RDA Update of E-books/E-journals

10. RDA CONVERSION TIMELINE 04/15-04/19 Export Bib-records and send them to MARCIVE 04/22-04/26 MARCIVE test conversion 04/29-05/10 Approve test conversion and begin MARCIVE final conversion 05/13-05/24 Load converted records back into III

11. POST-RDA CONVERSION PRACTICE Physical items: send our new bib. records for authority process and RDA conversion E-books/E-journals: configured load table to insert RDA fields to records

12. RICHARD GUAJARDO guajardo@uh.edu University of Houston Libraries Q & A