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- Readings from the syllabus

 * [|Gorman]  [|"RDA: Imminent Debacle"] [[file:RDA_Imminent Debacle.pdf]]
 * [|Coyle and Hillman], [|"Resource Description and Access (RDA) Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century"]
 * [|Chapman],[| "RDA: a cataloguing code for the 21st century"] (Full-text PDF not available / available in Simmons Library)

- Websites

 * [|Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA]
 * [|LC Working Group - Testing RDA]
 * [|U.S. National Libraries RDA Test Partners] (including Northeastern Univ.)
 * [|RDA Element Set] from Description and Access Assignment in class (enter with: catalog-rda / rda)
 * [|RDA toolkit]
 * [|the final report on FRBR] [[file:frbr_2008.pdf]]
 * [|Planet Cataloging(web log)]
 * [|RDA survey]
 * [|Open RDA Registry]
 * [|RDA criticism]
 * C[|ataloging and metadata blogs]

**- Notes**
- Developed by JSC to replace AACR2 and published in the RDA Toolkit in June, 2010. - Print-dominant environment --> digital environment "a new standard for resource description and access designed for the digital world" - //JSC RDA Prospectus// - To focus on the user convenience (FRBR's user task: Find, Identify, Select, Obtain)
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 * - Built on foundations established by the AACR **
 * - RDA is based on IFLA's FRBR and FRAD conceptual model.(focus on the relationships) **
 * - RDA is a content standard (not a display standard nor an encoding standard) **
 * - There are no separate chapters for each type of resources in RDA. (Section 1-4: attributes / Section 5-10: relationships) **
 * - "main entry" --> preferred access point (further description in RDA Section 2) **

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