Monday January 11, 2010
7-9:00 pm
Sixth Street Community Center
638 East Sixth Street (between Avenues B & C)
Free, but attendees will be asked to donate a few bucks to help pay for the space rental

The NYC collective of Radical Reference will host a "people's university" style salon to discuss RDA vs. AACR2: Implications for Social Justice.

Rick Block will be leading off the discussion with a rundown of the issues and implications of RDA. Participants will be strongly encouraged to sign up to read one of the articles posted below, and be prepared to report on it at the meeting. See the bibliography from the OCLC salon discussion we held last January for an example of how this works.

1. Please add items you think people should read ahead of time.
2. Please keep them in anti-chronological order.
3. Feel free, encouraged even, to provide some annotation.
4. Please volunteer to summarize one item for the group at the salon by putting your name after it in parentheses, like this: (Farfel)
5. If you can't/don't want to edit the page to add a citation or claim an article, just say what you want in a comment.

Bibliography

• Author. "Article title [linked]." Source. Date. (name)
  Annotation. e.g. The crux of this article is... or Note that the author is...
   
• International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). "Statement of International Cataloguing Principles." Last updated December 29, 2009.
  This isn't an article, but a recent statement made by IFLA about cataloging and it's purpose within libraries.
   
• Yee, Martha M. " Can Bibliographic Data be Put Directly Onto the Semantic Web?
  " UC Los Angeles . June 1, 2009. (John B) (More useful readings can be found on Dr. Yee's home page, including a list of works published, with links to many on eScholarship.)
   
• International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). " Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)" Last Amended February 2009.
  Another background document. Understanding FRBR is important to understanding the foundation and theory behind RDA.
   
• Hillmann, Dianne. "Getting There." Technicalities. Jan./Feb2009. (Natalie)
   
• Gorman, Michael. "RDA: The Coming Cataloguing Debacle " (Jenna)
   
• Oliver, Chris. "Changing to RDA." Canadian Library Association. 2007
   
• Tennant, Roy "Digital Libraries: Will RDA be DOA." Library Journal. March 15, 2007.
   
• Coyle, Karen and Diane Hillmann. "Resource Description and Access (RDA): Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century." D-Lib Magazine. January/February 2007. (Melissa)
   
• Hillmann, Diane I. "RDA for Who?" March 12, 2006.
   
• Byrd, Jackie, et al. " White Paper on the Future of Cataloging at Indiana University
  " January 16, 2006.
  Another background document.
   
• Tillett, Barbara B. " Change Cataloging, but Don’t Throw the Baby Out with the Bath Water! " November 2004. (Alycia)
   
• Hickey, Thomas B. " Experiments with the IFLA Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records (FRBR) " D-Lib Magazine. September 2002.
   

  Cataloging Blogs

• Backstage Library Works. " MARS Automation Services "
  Backstage Library Works’ (vendor) MARS Automation Services blog with link to category ‘RDA’. Some opinion, but a couple very useful lists of online resources and articles.
   
• Coyle, Karen. " Coyle’s InFormation "
  Karen Coyle’s blog, linked to posts labeled with ‘RDA’.
   
• Denton, William. " The FRBR Blog "
   
• Schwartz, Christine. " Cataloging Futures "
  Cataloging Future’s blog posts about RDA.
   
• Weinheimer, James. " Cooperative Cataloging Rules Blog "
  This blog was established to coincide with the wiki as a community effort to create an alternative to RDA collectively.
   

  RDA sites

• RDA Online. " RDA: Resource Description and Access "
  Full draft of RDA, diagrams of relationships, and links to background and other resources.
   
• Resource Description and Access. " rda-l: Messages by Thread "
  RDA Discussion Listserv Archive.
   
• Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA. "RDA: Resource Description and Access." Last updated December 8, 2009.
  This is more general background about RDA's development.
   
• Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA. "RDA: Resource Description and Access Frequently Asked Questions." Last updated December 9, 2009.
  This is more general background about RDA's development and FAQ.
   
• Library of Congress. " Testing Resource Description and Access (RDA) "
  Series of links related to the testing, guidelines for testing, and time line for National Libraries that are participating in RDA testing.
   

  Guiding Questions

  1. Into which category does your article fit--background, pro-RDA, anti-RDA, neutral, primary source?
      
  2. Does your article reflect or inspire a radical or social justice perspective on the topic?
      
      
  3. ???