Implementing RDA: One Institution’s Evolving Experience, Two Years Later

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. Discussion Points

3. Reorganization of Technical Services at the University of Chicago

4. Before May 2012

5. Before May 2012

6. Reorganized Technical Services Electronic Resources Management Budget & Reporting

7. UChicago Cataloging Capacity

8. Why “Rapid Cataloging”? • 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

9. What is “Rapid Cataloging”? • 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.

10. RDA @ UChicago

11. Training • 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

12. Cumulative Total of UChicago’sRDA Bibliographic Records

13. Cumulative Total of UChicago’sRDA Authority Records

14. Next Steps for UChicago

15. Building a Culture of Assessment for Metadata • 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

16. Impact on Copy Cataloging • October 2010-May 2011: all RDA copy reviewed by Original Cataloging • May 2011-present: accept RDA copy as-is

17. Next Steps for UChicago • 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 VuFind • Continuing learning about Semantic Web, linked data, alternatives to MARC Formats • Share expertise by contributing to formal PCC reviews of new RDA institutions

18. Next Steps for You

19. 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. Thank you!croninc@uchicago.edu