1. Implementing RDA: One Institution’s Evolving Experience, Two Years Later American Library Association Annual Conference ALCTS CaMMS Copy Cataloging Interest Group Anaheim, CA / 23 June 2012 Christopher Cronin Director of Technical Services University of Chicago

2. Christopher Cronin © 2012 Discussion Points Reorganization of UChicago’s Technical Services RDA @ UChicago Next Steps for UChicago Next Steps for You

3. Christopher Cronin © 2012 Reorganization of Technical Services at the University of Chicago

4. Christopher Cronin © 2012 ACQUISITIONS DEPARTMENT Budget & Reporting Electronic Resources OperationsOrdersReceiving Before May 2012

5. Christopher Cronin © 2012 CATALOGING DEPARTMENT Original Monographic Cataloging Serials & Digital Resources Cataloging Database Management & Copy Cataloging Before May 2012

6. Christopher Cronin © 2012 TECHNICAL SERVICES Acquisitions & Rapid Cataloging Monographic Orders Receiving & Rapid Cataloging Monographic Cataloging Continuing Resources Data Management Services Reorganized Technical Services Budget & Reporting Electronic Resources Management

7. Christopher Cronin © 2012 Original Catalogers Copy Catalogers Students Technical Services (Acq/Cat/DBM) 8 11 ___________________________________________________________ + 17 ACQ assistants 1 ___________________________________________________________ + 6.5 FTE for ACQ students Maps Collection 112 East Asia Collection 423 Law Library 211 UChicago Cataloging Capacity

8. Christopher Cronin © 2012  Mid-1990s through 2012: called “MARC for Acquisitions”  Gets resources with “good enough” cataloging to the shelf ASAP  Frees up copy cataloger time for clearing backlogs, and attending to hidden and special collections  Criteria for what can be finished in Acquisitions has been continually broadened:  2007/08: 38,923 records were finalized in Acquisitions  2010/11: 60,002 records were finalized in Acquisitions Why “Rapid Cataloging”?

9. Christopher Cronin © 2012  Easier to say what it isn’t. The criteria excludes:  Foreign language records  9 specific call number ranges (music, atlases, kids lit, etc.)  Elvl 8 and Elvl M  Absence of or incomplete 050 or 090  Absence of at least one LCSH  Does not treat RDA any differently than AACR2  OCLC validation will provide some degree of assurance that core RDA elements are populated  Criteria currently functions like a checklist  This summer, refocusing training on assessing the quality of the metadata, not just the presence or absence of MARC fields. What is “Rapid Cataloging”?

10. Christopher Cronin © 2012 RDA @ UChicago

11. Christopher Cronin © 2012  Pre-test RDA training in summer 2010 – included original and copy cataloging  Post-test BIBCO and NACO “refresher” in February 2011  Regular monthly meetings of original catalogers to discuss RDA issues  June 2012: formal NACO RDA training via PCC Training

12. Christopher Cronin © 2012 Cumulative Total of UChicago’s RDA Bibliographic Records

13. Christopher Cronin © 2012 Cumulative Total of UChicago’s RDA Authority Records

14. Christopher Cronin © 2012 Next Steps for UChicago

15. Christopher Cronin © 2012  Developing user testing on RDA reproduction records.  Relationships between RDA data and our faceted catalog interface: Content, Media and Carrier Types & their potential for integration into facets  Reciprocal learning for catalogers and assessment colleagues Building a Culture of Assessment for Metadata

16. Christopher Cronin © 2012  October 2010-May 2011: all RDA copy reviewed by Original Cataloging  May 2011-present: accept RDA copy as-is Impact on Copy Cataloging

17. Christopher Cronin © 2012  Re-think impact on copy cataloging  July 2012: training copy catalogers on creating RDA records for new editions and some no-copy literary works  Evaluate impact on authorities processing and DBM generally  Evaluate impact on systems design for Kuali-OLE (http://www.kuali.org/ole) and VuFindhttp://www.kuali.org/ole  Continuing learning about Semantic Web, linked data, alternatives to MARC Formats  Share expertise by contributing to formal PCC reviews of new RDA institutions Next Steps for UChicago

18. Christopher Cronin © 2012 Next Steps for You

19. Christopher Cronin © 2012 Start training NOW Do it together Institute peer review for RDA records Learn as much as possible about linked data, and the future of our metadata infrastructures

20. Christopher Cronin © 2012 Thank you! croninc@uchicago.edu