1. 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 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/

2. Overview Access to the Toolkit Familiarity with basic features How to use the free trial period NOT: Structure of RDA (See http://www.nla.gov.au/lis/stndrds/grps/acoc/trainmaterials.html for overview presentation on this topic)http://www.nla.gov.au/lis/stndrds/grps/acoc/trainmaterials.html How to catalogue using RDA

3. Access to the Toolkit http://ourweb.nla.gov.au/collmanage/Catr esources.html

4. Screen image from the RDA Toolkit (www.rdatoolkit.org) used by permission of the Co-Publishers for RDA (American Library Association, Canadian Library Association, and CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals)

5. RDA

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7. Menus Screen image from the RDA Toolkit (www.rdatoolkit.org) used by permission of the Co-Publishers for RDA (American Library Association, Canadian Library Association, and CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals)

19. TOOLS

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30. RESOURCES

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36. SEARCHING

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47. Using the pre-implementation period Why use the Toolkit now? – Familiarisation – Feedback and suggestions – Technical problems

48. Providing Feedback Screen image from the RDA Toolkit (www.rdatoolkit.org) used by permission of the Co-Publishers for RDA (American Library Association, Canadian Library Association, and CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals)

49. 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

50. Places to go for more information RDA Toolkit Website http://www.rdatoolkit.org/ ACOC RDA Website http://www.nla.gov.au/lis/stndrds/grps/acoc/rda.html

51. Acknowledgements Some of the information in this presentation is from Toolkit publishers webinar, entitled: “RDA Toolkit: What’s new since August” (http://www.rdatoolkit.org/Webinar/2010Nov)http://www.rdatoolkit.org/Webinar/2010Nov Presented by Troy Linker in November 2010.