This article reports the content of a session given at
the 2011 NASIG Conference on the process of testing Resource Description and
Access (RDA) in the United States in late 2010 and the subsequent analysis of
the data in 2011. The presenters represented three national libraries who were
an integral part of the testing process: the Library of Congress, the National
Agricultural Library, and the National Library of Medicine. While this article
does not present the recommendations that came out of the test (those can be
found on the Library of Congress's website), it does describe the process of
how the test was conducted, how the data were analyzed, and the general
categories of recommendations that were arrived at. Given that this
presentation was part of the NASIG conference, the topic of continuing
resources in the test was highlighted. The presenters touched on issues such as
successive entry, what format changes will constitute the need for a new
bibliographic record, how translations and language additions will be handled,
discrepancies between RDA and CONSER Standard Record practices, and the future
of provider neutral records under RDA.
"The U.S. RDA Test Process" can be found in the Serials Librarian, volume
62, issues 1-4 (2012), pages 125-139. DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2012.652485.
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